*** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa FC ***

[Roland Beurre]

You are one of the few posters I've ever seen suggest Bentancur could do a turn at centre half. I've said the same thing myself.

The forgotten man at the moment seems to be Bergval. I wonder if we could get him more involved rotating with Sarr and Bissouma, whilst utilising Bents as both a centre half and centre mid.

Ooh, a rare case (writes our pedantry correspondent) of the word "utilise" being used the way I use it. You can use an iron to iron your clothes or you can utilise it as a door-stop (i.e. for a purpose for which it was not designed).

This post is in memory of Paul Madeley, one of the few Leeds United players I did not hate (the other being Eddie Gray).



Sod's law mandates I have made several grammatical errors in this post.

 

[braineclipse]

Ooh, a rare case (writes our pedantry correspondent) of the word "utilise" being used the way I use it. You can use an iron to iron your clothes or you can utilise it as a door-stop (i.e. for a purpose for which it was not designed).

This post is in memory of Paul Madeley, one of the few Leeds United players I did not hate (the other being Eddie Gray).

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But can one utilise an iron both to iron clothes and as a door stop? If not we cannot utilise Bentancur both as a CB and midfielder, only as a CB while we can also use him as a midfielder.

On a related note surely one can utilise the word utilise for a purpose different than the one it's intended for?

I hope you get I appreciate the pedantry.

 

[JerusalemMan]

I hope so. Just wary of our fans going from one extreme to the other. A week ago things looked very different.

We'll see how the rest of the season pans out.

But what are the chances of that happening, eh?

 

[harr1984]

I hope so. Just wary of our fans going from one extreme to the other. A week ago things looked very different.

We'll see how the rest of the season pans out.

Things might of looked different a week ago for the usual reactionary section who were talking about how its time to look at getting rid of Ange.

But for most rational fans, the story of the season is that we have been the better side for most games and results haven't gone our way - which can happen, but over the course of a season evens itself out. Lost to Saudi Sportswashing Machine away which we didn't deserve to, the Goons were fortunate to beat us at home, even against Brighton we were fantastic for 45 minutes. The second half against Brighton, and the Palace game apart I can't think of any league games where we were poor.

Things to improve on sure, but as the stats show we score goals for fun and one of the better defences in the process. A portion of fans wetting the bed after any defeat doesn't change the fact that any metric, and dare I say the good old fashioned eye test suggests we are well postioned for a decent season.....

 

[SteveAWOL]

Obviously - but our stats are showing that we are better than where we currently sit in the league and over the course of the season it evens itself out.

They spoke about it on Monday Night Football last night and put up the stats. They compared us after 10 games last season to this. They showed the xG for and against, and then a final metric I can't remember what its called maybe Expected points or something but the metric is a very good indicator of where you finish in the league.

The point being after ten games last season when we was top of the league, our Expected Goals for and against were almost identical to what they are after ten games this season (being ranked 1st or 2nd in them for last season). However, the Expected points (or whatever it was called) had us as 7th, telling us that how we was performing wasn't going to be sustained and thats exactly what happened. Whereas this season after 10 games? We are in 3rd place for the same metric.....

FWIW it’s the xG Diff per game that has us ranked 3rd this season compared to 7th after 10 matches last season, largely thanks to our improved attack but defensively we remain 6th.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Ooh, a rare case (writes our pedantry correspondent) of the word "utilise" being used the way I use it. You can use an iron to iron your clothes or you can utilise it as a door-stop (i.e. for a purpose for which it was not designed).

This post is in memory of Paul Madeley, one of the few Leeds United players I did not hate (the other being Eddie Gray).

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Had a lot of sympathy for Madeley his ability to fill so many roles for Leeds limited his international career and he never had the luxury of playing in his preferred position, he really was a head of his time, an ideal squad player.

 

[alekaras]

The league is decided on results.

But projecting how many points we will earn by the end of the campaign is based on performance metrics. It's not a linear extrapolation based on results to-date.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Wish that Sky would get Berbatov in the studio for Spurs’ matches instead of bitter Jamie

https://twitter.com/x/status/1853507412721856597

Great an ex player who gets it, I'm one of the idiots who believed the great Danny Blanchflower and not the illustrious pundits in the media.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

I enjoyed game on Sunday, thought it would be a lot tougher. I don't watch many live games so didn't know how Villa play and was disappointed with their negative approach. I can only assume the booing was for the ref as I thought we played ok. Son didn't looked fully fit to me and I wasn't surprised he was subbed. Solanke was a revelation for me, I liked him as a kid at Chelsea but did not see his work rate or movement then, his goals earned him the MoM award but Sarr was like the Duracell bunny. Often wonder if people who watch games realise they are played over 90 minutes and the score and performance can change within that timescale.

 

[Raziel]

You are one of the few posters I've ever seen suggest Bentancur could do a turn at centre half. I've said the same thing myself.

The forgotten man at the moment seems to be Bergval. I wonder if we could get him more involved rotating with Sarr and Bissouma, whilst utilising Bents as both a centre half and centre mid.

Putting him in against City & Villa would probably been a step too far.

He needs a few more cup games to get up to level, but eventually I'd see him more in the 8, Gray is the one that should eventually be the rotation for Biss