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OMT - SPURS v BRIGHTON
- Thread starter Pirate55
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It's what happened after the restart last season and is something i hoped we had moved on from after the run of games recently where we looked a good attacking side.
Another job done game with a couple important monkeys off our back as bonus
- Home win
- Bale scoring (you just know if he went 5-10 games without a goal, the media narrative would have been on), it being a winning goal is even better
Everyone hung up on flowing games, statement wins, etc .. doesn't matter, right now, 3 points is the most important.
- We know we can play attacking football and tear teams apart, we know we can dominate games
- We hit the post more yesterday that they had legitimate chances (no way their goal should stand)
- To me, Son had an off game and it affected our setup
Onwards and upwards ...
- Home win
- Bale scoring (you just know if he went 5-10 games without a goal, the media narrative would have been on), it being a winning goal is even better
Everyone hung up on flowing games, statement wins, etc .. doesn't matter, right now, 3 points is the most important.
- We know we can play attacking football and tear teams apart, we know we can dominate games
- We hit the post more yesterday that they had legitimate chances (no way their goal should stand)
- To me, Son had an off game and it affected our setup
Onwards and upwards ...
tynesidespur
Terry Yorath
With Lallana off Trossard you'd think we could push higher up the pitch regardless of the lack of pace at the back. I'd rather we did that than sit deep.
To me we should've pinned their centre halves by putting Son/Kane/Lamela(then Bale) high up on them. That seemed to be the route that allowed them to get within 30 yards of our goal. Instead Kane seemed to be covering Ben White. I found it quite passive and an odd tactic. There was no need to be so defensive.
People are complaining because in the peak Poch years we'd just come out and strangle these teams. They would be pressed and turn over the ball before they'd even got out of their half. Now we're watching us concede possession and sit in 30 yards from our own goal. And yet in periods of the game we were able to get out and look likely to score goals. There has to be a happy medium somewhere even if we can't press like the maniacs of years gone by.
Daisuk
Dimitar Berbatov
I just don't understand the sentiment the ref is trying to play when allowing that tackle on Højbjerg - "he's barely touched the ball, so he was on the ball, no foul" (is what he is signalling when talking to Kane) - well, let's say he does barely touch the ball, then in the very next instance he very clearly clips and trips the leg of Højbjerg - so a foul. You can't touch/win the ball in one action, and then in the next action foul an opposition player. How can a PL level referee not know this?
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
PL refs are infallible and do not need to explain their actions to mere mortals.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
It's what he always does and why our managers pretty much always pick him.
StephenH
David Ginola
Hit the tickle my balls with a feather!
I was fuming yesterday. Brighton played by far the better football IMHO.
Bishop
John Lacy
While I agree that I thought it was indeed a foul if you get the ball you can then as part of the same action accidentally trip a player and no foul would be called unless it's deemed reckless or excessive play.
From the referees perspective the incident pivots on whether the Brighton "got the ball" or just lightly touched it. With all the replays I've seen I can't say for certain that he did touch it, at best it was a slight graze and for me should have been called as a foul.
Interestingly though the whole incident did make me question how far back should VAR get involved in incidents for? Tolhey didn't score directly from the "tackle" and there was at least 1 or even 2 phases of play before the goal.
An interesting conundrum nonetheless. Fortunately we didn't ultimately suffer from this one.
Yiddo
Jack Jull
Played pretty football but created next to nothing. If that had been us with only 2 shots on target and one of them being a goal that should not have counted you would have probably moaned that we were clueless in the final third.
StephenH
David Ginola
Very true, as 'we' largely were.
milo
Jack L. Jones
The lesson from this should be play to the whistle. I have seen us stopping and waiting for a decision a few times this season.
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
He knows it. But it's 2020. When was the last time you saw someone publicly admit they were wrong?
That's funny, someone in the match thread was saying that refs never change their mind when viewing the pitch side camera and it's just for show and yet here it seems to suggest that isn't the case at all
ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
Well we've got that list of opponents coming up...so all will be revealed!
ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
Brighton played well (not just against us) because they are extremely well coached. What they lack is top quality in 'the moments' of the game.
We can win games because we have better players who are ruthless in those moments (Kane , Sonny).
The magic happens when you are extremely well coached AND you have better players in the first place (eg Klopp, Poch, Wenger)
Are we extremely well coached? I'd say that the up and down nature of our performances (not results) would suggest not yet. BUT it's early days (we really can only judge from this season) and patterns and consistency could well be in the pipeline.
The bi-polar performances are a bit of a head scratcher though.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Everyone is turning in bi polar performances this season
No one can defend either which makes it happen