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Dele Alli

I think he has shown some of that "what the phuck?!" quality before, the goal against Everton was unbelievably good too.
 
I thought he had a really poor first half, but was much better when dropped back to accomodate Chadli's introduction. Aside from the goal, his passing forwards was good, cleanly struck and well weighted. The question is, is he now ready to be dropped back there full time, or are we likely only to do so against those teams that have no intention of attacking us?

Earlier in the season he was deployed alongside Dier, but was swapped out for Dembele (around the Bournemouth game methinks) due to him deserting his post and leaving Dier outnumbered. As mentionned above, the Palace game gives reason to rethink his position once more. Do we laud his strenghts in this role only because Palace didn't even attempt to test him defensively?

When deployed at #10 he has been able to float around the pitch, affecting play high up the field and scoring some good goals when advancing past Kane. We have on the other hand looked quite narrow and one dimensional, with Lamela, Son and Eriksen all striving to cut inside. Whilst this is a fundamental part of our game (the quick triangles on the edge of the box) and it has yielded chances, teams know how to defend against us. Not only that, but Eriksen has looked far more like his old self in these last two fixtures when being deployed centrally.

It's quite a conundrum as I think we also press better with Alli central and Lamela on the right.
 
NaijaSpurs said:
Another great article from Spooky

http://www.dearmrlevy.com/dml/2016/1/23/the-boy-who-would-be-king

Only in football can a grown man get excited by a teenage boy and not only is everyone okay with it, they all end up touching each other in an orgy of celebration. Dele Alli scored a goal that pretty much defines moments in football where you completely lose your sh*t because it's just so bloody wondrous.

It was an audacious bit of instinctive skill made even better thanks to its timing. Spurs reminding us that we can score something out of nothing. Although it's unfair to suggest this wasn't anything but a moment of genius from a kid that simply doesn't care that he's come from League One straight into the top flight.

The first touch, the turn, the volley. Glorious. This from a nineteen year old that had an untidy game yet produced the perfect match-winner with the same type of casualness you'd display whilst jogging in the park on a crisp Sunday morning.
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Could not sum it up any better myself, I ended up kissing a guy I had never met before and a couple of rows done from where I was sitting. Magic goal.
 
Modric THFC said:
When you watch players every week you know exactly what they are capable of.
When Kane scored that goal against Chelsea you knew he had that in "his locker".
This Alli goal today was just shocking. I had no idea he was capable of this. I didnt really catch the 5 minutes after he scored I was literally in a daze trying to process what he just did.

Even Bale's breakthrough goals weren't as surprising as this.
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Total opposite for me, Bale's real breakthrough moment i think was the hatrick against Milan, i never thought he was capable of that at the time.

Ali has shown enough pieces of skill, imagination and general fearlessness for that goal yesterday to be less of a shock, to me anyway.
 
Total opposite for me, Bale's real breakthrough moment i think was the hatrick against Milan, i never thought he was capable of that at the time.

Agree, I'm not sure if Alli will ever do anything quite as utterly mind-boggling as that Bale hat-trick. That was jaw-droppingly amazing because he did the same thing 3 times! Wonderful goal yesterday and isn't it just great, completely fab-u-lous, that we have a young player who could be MORE influential than Bale? As a prospect, Alli just seems to grow from week to week. The sky seems to be the limit with this kid. The next Gazza, the next Ghod?....right now it seems distinctly possible that he could become one of the Tottenham greats....
 

So the debate has started on who has scored the best goal this season, Alli or Neymar.
Looking at that video, I really think Alli's goal was much better as he controlled the ball without it touching the ground and still had to hit the target despite a defender being in front of him. In contrast, the ball bounced off the ground nicely to Neymar and he only needed to beat a defender and the goalie. So, I think Alli deserves to win the Puskas Award for scoring the most beautiful goal this season !
 
Pochettino's response to Rodgers's claims:

Do you know how many players in football are close to signing for many clubs?
Dele Alli, it’s impossible to speak about that because maybe different clubs were close to signing Dele Alli. Dele Alli is now here.
We were close at Espanyol to signing Lionel Messi, but this was true.
A centimetre (away), unbelievable but this was true, maybe Dele wasn’t true, but this was.
Messi was 17 years old (in the 2004/05 season), playing under-18s and was very close to signing for Espanyol. It was close, but it never happened.
In football it’s always ‘if, if, if’ but it’s about reality, it’s not about maybe what could have happened.
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Spurs7891 said:

So the debate has started on who has scored the best goal this season, Alli or Neymar.
Looking at that video, I really think Alli's goal was much better as he controlled the ball without it touching the ground and still had to hit the target despite a defender being in front of him. In contrast, the ball bounced off the ground nicely to Neymar and he only needed to beat a defender and the goalie. So, I think Alli deserves to win the Puskas Award for scoring the most beautiful goal this season !
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Alli's was much better. Mostly because it wasn't scored by a diving little whiny, cheating brick who plays the race card just because he can't cope with the concept of people thinking he's a clam.
 
Spurs7891 said:

So the debate has started on who has scored the best goal this season, Alli or Neymar.
Looking at that video, I really think Alli's goal was much better as he controlled the ball without it touching the ground and still had to hit the target despite a defender being in front of him. In contrast, the ball bounced off the ground nicely to Neymar and he only needed to beat a defender and the goalie. So, I think Alli deserves to win the Puskas Award for scoring the most beautiful goal this season !
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That's one way of looking at it, the other way is Neymar is far more famous than Alli (now) so that trumps everything with these awards. Unless someone scores a similar goal, and has one leg and is blind then....actually Neymar will win it anyway.
 
SoundAndVision said:
Total opposite for me, Bale's real breakthrough moment i think was the hatrick against Milan, i never thought he was capable of that at the time.

Ali has shown enough pieces of skill, imagination and general fearlessness for that goal yesterday to be less of a shock, to me anyway.
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Showed from the first moment (pre-season nutmeg on Modric) that he has that special ability and skill in him and the confidence to pull it off.
 
Alli now has 6 goals in 21 PL games and 1 goal in 4 England appearances.

Jack Wheelchair has 6 goals in 100 PL games for Arsenal and 2 goals in 28 England appearances.
 
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