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Mighty Spurs vs SCBC

£26m did we pay for Royal. What a waste of money, as I said right from the start, when rumours about him joining us began. Can't run, can't pass, can't cross, lacks awareness. The only thing he's got, is 1 vs 1 defensively, where he's actually pretty good.
I think that 1 v 1 thing is generous!
 
the CM was the problem today, the goals came from crosses which should have been closed and blocked by CM's

Kane and Son could have done a lot more too


And not following runners into the box, second goal winks just stood there watching the ball as the scorer ran past him and headed it in.
 
the CM was the problem today, the goals came from crosses which should have been closed and blocked by CM's

Kane and Son could have done a lot more too

We were vacant in there all game. I’d be surprised if we see those 2 together again in there.
 
And not following runners into the box, second goal winks just stood there watching the ball as the scorer ran past him and headed it in.

I think Hugo made very little effort for the second goal too, it went in quite near him and his arm wasn't extended

at the other end, again, good balls into the box were not attacked, the one time Kane did get to the near post he fudged his timing up
 
Its easy! Just pick a number.
1.Get the bloddy players we need to play Conte style!
2. change the formation.
3. get manager that dont rate this formation.

the backline are so stressed with the ball. The way we play its bloddy lick if we dont loose games
We had 2 and 3 recently and we played worse, a lot worse. So 1 is the way, that or sell 20 players.
 
See the game again. Im not talking just the goals. He fake his press. He ends up on the wrong places, he gives easy corners, ha cant find the pass..
Hes been by far the worst player for Spurs this year. If I was his father I still would have sad this!

We're seeing different things. Today I thought some of his pressing and covering was really good because second half we tried to get further up the pitch and he gave little away. The jokers on the other side of Romero looked like an accident waiting to happen all game.

For me, he's been very good since Conte came in. I guess different people see different things.
 
Dier is a Leeds United player, Davies is a Norwich player and Sanchez is a Watford player. Yet somehow they are here and play into our first 11. Conte plays a 3 CBs system, so their short comings and mistakes can be easily repaired and weak players can easily look good. With that in mind, they manage to get 3 goals at home with Soton and we could have easily conceded 6.
What sort of grading system is that? Kalvin Phillips and Raphinha are Leeds players who would walk into our team!

Romero > Dier > Sanchez.

I’m not his biggest fan but I’ve heard little critique of Davies since he’s played LCB.
 
We need 3 in midfield. We don’t have enough in there. Wolves will be better than SCBC.

I was surprised Conte did not change it at HT
 
Skip back will hopefully make a difference..Conte must play the best players we have and not give
our second rate players anymore chances..ghod it's a difficult one with what we have in the squad
because there is hardly anyone to come in with half a football brain.
Sorry to have to say that. What happened to home grown players we used to have?
Scoucers seem to produce no end of them..
Anyway it looks bar a miracle our CL hopes have gone straight down the brick bucket!
No the football brain has been an issue for a while. Romero and Bentacur showed the difference in this game with almost every touch and decision they made.
 
I have a mate who is down on a few of our players every game, a few who’ve shown progress under Conte but today every one of them proved him right.
I think we have a few players that it signed when it’s going well but under pressure they collapse, when there’s 4 or 5 of them on the pitch it’s hard to cover.

We've let Southampton take 4 points from us. POssibly because they press with intensity. And it exposes this side's lack of belief and ability to pass well. The defense and midfield are too shakey to pass and move around the press. We lack some composure, ability and pomp to just say f you, we're passing round you. There isn't that belief or ability in the backline and midfield. Apply pressure to us and we wilt too easily. We need to be stronger and more resilient when pressured.

I think it's a combination of your two points. If you stand off us and give us 15m per pass, even donkeys like Sanchez, Winks, Davies et al will look like passable players. And sometimes teams do because they fear Son, Kane et al on the counter.

If you press us, even a little bit, those brainless donkeys collapse and fold like a pack of cards. Soton tried it. They got 4 points off us this season because of it.

It seems like we've only added to that problem with Royal and Hojbjerg, two more players who have concrete cinder-blocks for feet.

The problem only grows because the other players who we rely on, Dier et al, are also like this. I can't think of one press-resistant player in our entire side - no one can keep the ball when pressed.
 
£26m did we pay for Royal. What a waste of money, as I said right from the start, when rumours about him joining us began. Can't run, can't pass, can't cross, lacks awareness. The only thing he's got, is 1 vs 1 defensively, where he's actually pretty good.

Both full backs (not wing backs) are competent defenders. It’s a complete waste of time persisting with the as wing backs.
 
We've let Southampton take 4 points from us. POssibly because they press with intensity. And it exposes this side's lack of belief and ability to pass well. The defense and midfield are too shakey to pass and move around the press. We lack some composure, ability and pomp to just say f you, we're passing round you. There isn't that belief or ability in the backline and midfield. Apply pressure to us and we wilt too easily. We need to be stronger and more resilient when pressured.
The only time we had control in the midfield it was then Kane droped down… I know Conte whant to play this way but if you dont have the team for it you need to change things
 
Both full backs (not wing backs) are competent defenders. It’s a complete waste of time persisting with the as wing backs.

Reguilon is alright going forward. He made his name as an attacking full-back for Sevilla - for us, he just arrives in the box too late + too exhausted from chundering up field, and misses as a result.

But you can tell that we look for him as an instinctual release when breaking - we play the ball into spaces we expect him to be in.

Royal? fudge no.
 
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