*** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City ***

[Bullet]

And that goal is a prime example of everything wrong with what Ange wants them to do and is a perfect illustration of what pundits are talking about when they say things like "you can't believe what you're watching" and "this is like a kids game".

You have two midfielders gambling everything on us getting through a press and basically in positions that strikers should be occupying. Then we lose the ball and a lad, who is injured and shouldn't have played by Ange's own admission, who is highest up the pitch has to sprint full pelt after a lost cause. He almost did it in fairness - this is the a picture of when the shot is released:

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The tactics are reckless - they gamble everything, including player welfare, on 50:50 situations. I'm loathe to call any pro-manager "tactically inept" when I'm an office monkey who has coached at no higher level than U-11 but I'm close to it with Ange.

This is why I don't believe, and never did, that we'd win a cup final or important game under Ange. When the pressure is really on, players are more likely to make mistakes in those 50:50 situations. That's probably further evidenced by the number of games we've lost by the odd goal while we tend to batter teams when we win.

Agreed.
Also, the Leicester goals were absolutely pinpoint perfection. The first one evaded 3 or 4 lunging defenders by 1cm and bounced very kindly for Vardy to tap in. The second was absolutely perfectly placed and Kinski was 1cm from saving it. And Son's strange shot that curled up and hit the bar was an incredible save by the Leicester keeper, he just got 1cm of glove on it and tipped it onto the bar. And Son's trademark shot was sooo close to going in. So many ifs and buts and 1cms. But that has been the story this year, it can't ALL be bad luck.

 

[Finney Is Back]

Except Richarlison is also in an offside position.

No he isn’t. Their player that tracked Sarr’s run is playing him onside.

 

[Finney Is Back]

And that goal is a prime example of everything wrong with what Ange wants them to do and is a perfect illustration of what pundits are talking about when they say things like "you can't believe what you're watching" and "this is like a kids game".

You have two midfielders gambling everything on us getting through a press and basically in positions that strikers should be occupying. Then we lose the ball and a lad, who is injured and shouldn't have played by Ange's own admission, who is highest up the pitch has to sprint full pelt after a lost cause. He almost did it in fairness - this is the a picture of when the shot is released:

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The tactics are reckless - they gamble everything, including player welfare, on 50:50 situations. I'm loathe to call any pro-manager "tactically inept" when I'm an office monkey who has coached at no higher level than U-11 but I'm close to it with Ange.

This is why I don't believe, and never did, that we'd win a cup final or important game under Ange. When the pressure is really on, players are more likely to make mistakes in those 50:50 situations. That's probably further evidenced by the number of games we've lost by the odd goal while we tend to batter teams when we win.

From that pic it looks extremely poor for the keeper to get beaten on his last hand side there.