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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    On your last question I don't know for sure either. To me part of our issues at least are a rather conservative positioning off the ball when in possession and an overall rather risk averse style. The players seem way more focused on being in position if we lose the ball than how to get into a...
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    Tactics Thread

    In general I do think the importance of what's being said in press conferences to be way overstated. I wouldn't mind nothing being said about it. But I would prefer some honesty. Pochettino was continually going on about bravery, IIRC both in and out of possession. And for sure we were brave...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    On the Bodø thing they have at least one midfielder who is rather good at it on his own, in the national team. "Too good" for them, but still there for various reasons But they've worked towards that over time. The focus has been on performances improving over time with a clear plan, results...
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    Tactics Thread

    Perhaps I'm weird 😊 I would be reasonably satisfied just seeing an identity too. But more so if it was an identity I like and agree with.
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    Tactics Thread

    I think he has to rotate the starting 11 as long as we have two games a week. Not doing so seems very likely to result in fatigue and injuries. I want us to have some kind of identity though, regardless of who starts any given game. And regardless of what kind of formation and strategy we use...
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    Agreed that we will most likely lose. We can definitely play rather well and lose there. But will we look clueless in the process or look like a competent footballing team. Not wanting to build it up, but we can also win. Maybe we even can play better than we have in some of our recent games.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    Sure if there are opponent specific weaknesses to target. But if we're looking to improve our possession game overall, play more through midfield, take more risk. Then you probably need to do drills on that, drills that will have to be fairly high intensity? You also have to "practice" doing...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I agree with you Steff. I want to see him given time, but we also need to see improvements at some point. On compression of games for sure he has a point. I said back when we went from a game a week early on to two games a week that this is where the season as it mostly is starts, a much...
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    Difficult to see a good performance or result coming right now. Several signs of some real negative spirals. Things have been difficult before and turned around though. We know there's both quality and effort in this team. Hope this is a game we can turn it around in.
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    Pedro Porro

    At times at least his passing from deep was useful to us. (Very small positive in an overall very disappointing game, I know). Quite a lot of our attacking was based on the right and on crossing. I agree that this was one of those games where his crossing was sub par. I'm not sure Spence would...
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    ***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC V fulham...Sat 29th (today FFS!) 8pm - BTW HAPPY BIRTHDAY FERNADEZ'S OLDEST KID***

    I don't think we were vulnerable because of that in particular, or not as the primary reasons at least. The way I saw it, and that may not be what actually happened, neither of them dropped deep much and Palhinha was rather consistently the deepest midfielder when we had the ball. I would have...
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    Cristian Romero

    Best defender, best player and crucial to us being at least somewhat competent looking on the ball in deeper areas. And yeah, he makes mistakes, sure. All players do.
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    Xavi Simons

    Just play it wide or long it's going to work out eventually? Surely it must be on his radar at least. Was quite happy before the game yesterday. Bergvall and Gray. Palhinha as the only one if him, Bentancur and Sarr. Surely now either Gray or Bergvall is finally trusted deep in midfield...
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    Pedro Porro

    Because subbing him would mean going from having one good passer in deep areas to zero?
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    Cristian Romero

    Question asked and answered I guess?
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    Xavi Simons

    Seems really obvious that what he needs is other players around him to play with and combine with. Sure he can do some things in his own, sure he can arrive in the box like he did for the one chance yesterday. But he needs that and players who can feed him the ball in between the lines. For 15...
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    Randal Kolo Muani

    A bright spot for sure. Hope he can keep it up. If he got decent service he'd probably look even better.
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    Guglielmo Vicario

    To me it's symptomatic of where we are under Frank. First part of the season we were all about just doing the basics. Just clear it. That worked alright, but we obviously also needed to improve our possession game. Then part way into the season with two games a week, injuries and everything...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    This for me too. I'm all for giving a manager time, but looking clueless has to stop at some point.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    What we can do this season that we didn't do last season defensively until the later stages of the EL is sit back in a low block and defend. At that we're quite good. But are we going to try to also be so team that plays with risk, have a balance between defending well and attacking well. On...
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