***OMT*** Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea

[Robspur12]

we must nip that stupid lose of control in the bud - it was rank amateur

It will cost us in Europe big time - and it distroyed our game tonight in the last 15 min

Could not agree more I was so angry with the players tonight. The way you shut up the likes of Fabregas and Hazard is to win the match. I have said it before, we must learn to close these decisive matches if the team is going to be successful. Leicester just knew how to grind out results better than us. We must finish second then it will be a fabulous achievement. Hope we won't lose a host of players now. A win against Southampton and we are there.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Believe me, as a Northern monkey. None of those as classed as a 'derby' for Leicester. Stoke possibly, next season maybe Derby if they come up

Yeah - Derby and Forest are their two big rivals. That's the East Midlands trio of cities

 

[Baleforce]

Sorry, I was on about finishing above Arsenal. There is a 14 GD between us. Thats why we are guaranteed 3rd barring a landlside

Okay, if, we lost the last 2 2-0 70pts +35

Arsenal beat Chelsea.....then we blew it but still finish 3rd ARS 73 TH 70 MC 67
Draw.. still 3rd ARD 71 TH 70 MC 68
City beat Arsenal. Its all on GD All finish on 70pts. Then City need 2 wins totalling +5 to finish 2nd, while Arsenal wouldn't need to beat Villa 12 or 13-0

Arsenal have villa still...

 

[Robspur12]

Also fooking hilarious hearing the bluescum hypocrites singing "there's only one Ranieri" when they couldn't wait to get him out of the door. Can't see them being much better next season.

 

[Gutter Boy]

The team we will field against Southampton won't fill me with confidence. Alderweireld and Rose injured. Dembele and possibly Lamela banned. In addition to Alli, of course.

So:

Lloris

Walker
Dier
Vertonghen
Davies

Mason
Carroll

Lamela
Eriksen
Son

Kane

We need to finish ahead of Arsenal at least. Get that final win that will probably be enough. But we won't find it easy with such an understrength team.

Rose and Alder didn't look that serious.

And if Alder is out, surely Wimmer would come in rather than Carroll

 

[glasgowspur]

I would not put money it

Really can't see them doing well. Who was the last defending champs to put up a good show? Put that together with everyone will be gunning for them, and all the hype they will have to deal with. Along with the euros, CL and a slim squad because this lot are now undropable.
That's before surely a memo from the FA preparing the refs for the antics in the box.
Will do exceedingly well to get top 12 IMHO

 

[Rorschach]

Totally gutted tonight. All bravado aside that hurt like a mother fudger.

We got played by Chelsea tonight and fell perfectly into their trap. That's what I saw. If we played them at football we would have won but in a game of clamball they were always going to be the winners. So so disappointing that we couldn't detach ourselves from the nonsense and keep focused on the prize.

Chelsea came out tonight to not lose. That is all. They couldn't care less about winning as was evident when they were running the ball into the corner for the last few minutes. I mean WTF benefit do they get from that? Their coach had obviously told them to do this!!! If you needed any evidence as to how rotten that club is to to the core there it is right there.

Gutted.

 

[SteveAWOL]

It was virtually the same team. Pretty much just Son and Alder in place of Townsend and Bentaleb.

Feels like we've got rid of so much dross since then but guess you're right that most of today's squad did have some part to play in that final too... maybe 3rd time lucky then...

 

[Rorschach]

I never said this before but I hope one of our boys puts Hazard out of the Euros in training. fudging little clam.

 

[glasgowspur]

Totally gutted tonight. All bravado aside that hurt like a mother fudgeer.

We got played by Chelsea tonight and fell perfectly into their trap. That's what I saw. If we played them at football we would have won but in a game of clamball they were always going to be the winners. So so disappointing that we couldn't detach ourselves from the nonsense and keep focused on the prize.

Chelsea came out tonight to not lose. That is all. They couldn't care less about winning as was evident when they were running the ball into the corner for the last few minutes. I mean WTF benefit do they get from that? Their coach had obviously told them to do this!!! If you needed any evidence as to how rotten that club is to to the core there it is right there.

Gutted.

Yep, get as many booked and wound up as possible and bring in hazard when we can't afford to tackle him. Should have put Lamella on him to put him up in the air, quite word of next one and you're out of the euros.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Feels like we've got rid of so much dross since then but guess you're right that most of today's squad did have some part to play in that final too... maybe 3rd time lucky then...

The dross was largely got rid of in October of last season, bar a handful of appearances by Fazio and Chiriches etc.

One of our (and Leicester's) strength this season is having had 9-10 of our starters having been together for 2 years, while all our rivals have assortments of transient mercenaries.

 

[mudshark]

Some weeks ago, I predicted three things:

1 Leicester would drop fewer points than us during the run-in
2 Arsenal would go unbeaten
3 We'd end up finishing third

We've just managed to get half our squad ruled out for the rest of the season, and I fear we are actually going to allow Arse to slither ahead of us now.

 

[balesleftboot]

Arsenal will lose to City.

 

[90sSpursBook]

Chelsea fans claiming that they denied Spurs the title and won it for Leicester.....yes you did by pulling your pants down and grabbing your ankles when they played at Leicester in Jose's last game back in December

 

[King of Norway]

Rose and Alder didn't look that serious.

And if Alder is out, surely Wimmer would come in rather than Carroll

Rose seemed to have pulled his hamstring, and if that is the case, it will keep him out for a few weeks. It was difficult to see what happened to Alderweireld, but it seemed less serious, so perhaps he will be fit.

I am not sure Poch would go with two left footed center backs if Toby does miss out.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Rose seemed to have pulled his hamstring, and if that is the case, it will keep him out for a few weeks. It was difficult to see what happened to Alderweireld, but it seemed less serious, so perhaps he will be fit.

I am not sure Poch would go with two left footed center backs if Toby does miss out.

All 4 of Liverpool's CBs are left footed. It's a FM myth

 

[Robspur12]

Really can't see them doing well. Who was the last defending champs to put up a good show? Put that together with everyone will be gunning for them, and all the hype they will have to deal with. Along with the euros, CL and a slim squad because this lot are now undropable.
That's before surely a memo from the FA preparing the refs for the antics in the box.
Will do exceedingly well to get top 12 IMHO

I bear Leicester absolutely no ill will, hope they continue to confound the doubters. We can only blame ourselves for not being quite good enough they deserve their title. Not enough room to hate them in my brain due to my pathological hatred of Bluescum, West Ham and the Arsenal. Each of those Cnuts have fudged us over in some way in recent times. We must finish ahead of all three this season.

 

[tynesidespur]

I'd normally agree, but we allied it with helplessness. It's no good snarling and fighting off the ball if you're muscled off it and easily overrun while it's in play.

And make no mistake, we were thoroughly outclassed in the second half. I hope they left it in and that their c*nts feel sore in the morning, but in the future, aggression needs to be allied with nous, with cold steel, with game management.

I've said it to @thfcsteff, and I'll say it again; the day we learn to be c*nts is the day we have the title sewn up, done and dusted. Game management, the dark arts, call it what you want, but until we learn to stop losing our heads and reacting the way we did to losing a goal and being wound up, we will always be the pretty losers.

The next time, if there were similar circumstances, I wouldn't be impressed by us flying in, snarling and biting and losing our heads. I *would* be impressed by meeting a sly kick at the ankles with an equally sly f*cking elbow in the face, *minus* the cartoonish obviousness with which we tried to do it today (i.e, not in the Alli/Dembele way, which leads to bans).

Teams need to fear us; if not because of our football, then because of the high probability of being mauled, wound up and put through the wringer if they try any funny business.

It depends on the time of the game. We had the lead and just needed to see the game out in the 2nd half. Up to about 60 mins we were on the edge but doing ok. We seemed to lose it a little bit after that. But once they equalise and after what has gone on over the previous 82 minutes? Nah I'm not having that - all bets were off as far as I was concerned. The game has gone, the title has gone and its time to take things into your own hands.
I would've made a beeline for that squealing little brick Hazard and snapped him in 2. The only shame is that 2-3 of our boys all had a nibble and failed to dish out a SERIOUS injury. I would've loved to see him or Fabregas end up missing the Euro's on the back of that. If Karma isn't running your way you have to take things into your own hands. I'm very very proud of the way we reacted tonight, we showed we won't be bullied and we left something on them. Beautiful.

 

[Ginola99]

Rose and Alder didn't look that serious.

And if Alder is out, surely Wimmer would come in rather than Carroll

Rose is hamstring, he wont play.

 

[King of Norway]

All 4 of Liverpool's CBs are left footed. It's a FM myth

Their only left footed center back is Sakho, surely. Skrtel, Lovren and Toure are right footed. As is Joe Gomez and Steven Caulker if you want to to further down the pecking order.