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OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project ** Saturday 23 November 2024

thfcsteff said:
BTW full credit to Biss for managing himself superbly after what I thought was a poor yellow card decision in the first 30 seconds! He was excellent.
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It was a Rodri tackle which the formed committed regularly without being booked for and was either ignored by refs and commentators or admired as protecting his defence.
 
Kompakted said:
Dragusin, Davies and Bissouma looked very confident. Davies in particular was excellent. Maybe our defenders and midfield looked so much better without having to decipher what Romero is going to do next? Is he going to back off? Is he going to lunge in? Is he going to headbutt their forward?
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I was thinking about this during the second half. If we’re picking on merit then Romero should be waiting his turn now to try to work his way back into the team.
 
thfcsteff said:
There were team reasons today which helped. Deki was excellent with both working and holding possession today, and Maddison was excellent off the ball and with his aptitude and application. Everyone worked very hard to earn the right to romp. If we maintain that work ethic we will push into top 4 no problem.
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Team reason and us accepting dropping deeper at times when we didn't have the energy to press high.

Also confidence and game state. What was that stat, conceding first in 13 of our last 15 home games or something like that.

And of course they didn't take their chances, we did.

Quite similar to the game against City in the cup. Had we been rushed/flustered, over extended in terms of pressing up that's a very different performance.
 
thfcsteff said:
I think this is largely inaccurate. You don't win 4-0 at City with the game 'going in our favour'...we earned it and were largely comfortable. Missed a few ourselves too...
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I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not claiming it was a 50/50 match where all of chances just went in and theirs didn't. What I'm saying is despite it being a very accomplished performance let's not pretend it was faultless and that suddenly any and all issues we have are now solved.

In this very game City had the same kind of chances that have fallen to previous opposition but in this match and the first 15 minutes particular they didn't finish. That's what I mean by the game went our way. Ordinarily we concede first and that always gives us a mountain to climb, yesterday partly due to poor finishing and partly down to great goalkeeping that didn't happen. Once we weathered that initial storm it gave us the platform for the rest of the performance.
 
SkipRat said:
What is this?

Seriously?

Coming of age? If it was players coming of age, then we need to go out and win the next game and start being bloody consistent. Because until we do, that bolded bit is utter bollox. This is why it is important not blow it next game, as this result will be meaningless in teh grand shceme of things .

Like I said it is great win, and it is always lovely to stuff ManC... Enjoy the day and result.
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In the grand scheme of things is exactly the phrase that best sums up what Ange is doing, and to not recognise that this is still the mid point of the evolution of our team is to be naive. If you actually listen to the manager, the guy who is orchestrating the performances, he is telling you what they are striving for, namely consistency - but that is not guaranteed as they work towards the end goal, which for Ange is trophies.

Too many people who follow football teams kneejerk, but in your case this inverted knee jerk of instantly devaluing the result by saying the next one defines it is patently not true. This should be treated as what it is, a wonderful performance for so many reasons against the best club side in the world the past five years.
 
Bishop said:
I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not claiming it was a 50/50 match where all of chances just went in and theirs didn't. What I'm saying is despite it being a very accomplished performance let's not pretend it was faultless and that suddenly any and all issues we have are now solved.

In this very game City had the same kind of chances that have fallen to previous opposition but in this match and the first 15 minutes particular they didn't finish. That's what I mean by the game went our way. Ordinarily we concede first and that always gives us a mountain to climb, yesterday partly due to poor finishing and partly down to great goalkeeping that didn't happen. Once we weathered that initial storm it gave us the platform for the rest of the performance.
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City dont finish well
Their main source of goals with 55% of them is one man
That is a weak plan
City are predictable because they play one way too
They sold goals the year before last and haven’t really replaced them
What they have, when fit, is key players getting them out of jail by their own high standards (Rodri and Gvardiol winners helped last year)
He has invested in dribbly wingers but their goal return isn’t a patch on someone like Mahrez for example
 
Bishop said:
I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not claiming it was a 50/50 match where all of chances just went in and theirs didn't. What I'm saying is despite it being a very accomplished performance let's not pretend it was faultless and that suddenly any and all issues we have are now solved.

In this very game City had the same kind of chances that have fallen to previous opposition but in this match and the first 15 minutes particular they didn't finish. That's what I mean by the game went our way. Ordinarily we concede first and that always gives us a mountain to climb, yesterday partly due to poor finishing and partly down to great goalkeeping that didn't happen. Once we weathered that initial storm it gave us the platform for the rest of the performance.
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Hardly any games are faultless for anyone. Opposition for anyone are gonna have their moments and chances that's just the game, it's especially the game against the best to do it over the last 10 years

Yesterday was tremendous
 
Grays_1890 said:
Hardly any games are faultless for anyone. Opposition for anyone are gonna have their moments and chances that's just the game, it's especially the game against the best to do it over the last 10 years

Yesterday was tremendous
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I agree, but if you read some of the hyperbole then you'll see people talking as if those chances of theirs never happened or that because Romero didn't play that's the key to better defending of crosses, when in this very match we had the crosses issue in the first half. That's all im really responding too. It was a absolutely fantastic performance but let's not get too carried away.
 
Kompakted said:
Dragusin, Davies and Bissouma looked very confident. Davies in particular was excellent. Maybe our defenders and midfield looked so much better without having to decipher what Romero is going to do next? Is he going to back off? Is he going to lunge in? Is he going to headbutt their forward?
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I think if we had vdv and Rom I don't think we keep a clean sheet
 
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