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***OMT TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs Roma***

thfcsteff said:
I hate to bang on about the Vicario injury -especially as Forster made two great saves tonight (the one at the near-death deserved to be the match-winner, outstanding) but there is little doubt in my mind that we are not as comfortable with him in goal. Probably natural given he is hardly there, and perhaps after a few games it will be sorted, but it does give us a big issue to navigate before January. Those games? That's an absurd run of fixtures really...

I have to say, I have been largely happy with the CBs in reserve. For me, it just feels so so important to try and get Richy fit and utiize Spence as much as possible. I also think in January we need to bite the bullet and loan Bergvall for his own development; such potential but not quite ready to do any real job for us in the regular sense. It will likely mean we need to push hard for that Gomes deal in Jan. Again, no blame laid at Bregy's feet at all tonight, but him and Maddison together don't work well, and in a game where you're looking to just play it out, he simply is not the right guy.

Have to give Archie Gray another shout out. Not spectacular but considering it is probably the least of his favourite positions, and that he was doing a job for the team tonight, I thought he did really well with Ben shepherding him through.
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Watching Davies closely today he does so many good things at CB
He marks the man and wins the ball
Keeps his passing precise and doesn’t switch off
We didn’t (IMO) have any issues with the CBS
But poor Archie was overloaded constantly in a new position . He grew into the game but it was a tough night against 2 men
Porto was playing well and faded as Kulu did (maybe that was his outball gone)
It was a game that needed fresher legs in key areas and we don’t have them currently
But that doesn’t excuse the lack of marking which was odd
 
Think a few people are needlessly getting their undies in a twist.
We had one of our regular badck five out there.
That roma team is laced with quality, have a new manager and have a point to prove.
We could have won that game.
We are three points off the top, the next three rounds quite a few above us are playing each other so some will drop points.
Cheer up people.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
I’m not sure what it’s meant to be
Looked like they took the corner and the players went into attach mode when defending was needed
Not sure who it was but think it was but it was odd
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For their goal at the end, Biss sat in rather than playing the offside.
Others just ran away rather than defending.
The cross from Angelino was an absolute arrow between Madds and Biss and Solanke, perfectly onto Hummels' shin.

On my stream, it froze and broke just as Angelino fizzed it, so I knew for a fact it had gone in.
 
glasgowspur said:
Think a few people are needlessly getting their undies in a twist.
We had one of our regular badck five out there.
That roma team is laced with quality, have a new manager and have a point to prove.
We could have won that game.
We are three points off the top, the next three rounds quite a few above us are playing each other so some will drop points.
Cheer up people.
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I think it’s the frequent repetition of the same errors, no matter who is on the pitch, that’s grinding a few gears.
 
thfcsteff said:
I hate to bang on about the Vicario injury -especially as Forster made two great saves tonight (the one at the near-death deserved to be the match-winner, outstanding) but there is little doubt in my mind that we are not as comfortable with him in goal. Probably natural given he is hardly there, and perhaps after a few games it will be sorted, but it does give us a big issue to navigate before January. Those games? That's an absurd run of fixtures really...

I have to say, I have been largely happy with the CBs in reserve. For me, it just feels so so important to try and get Richy fit and utiize Spence as much as possible. I also think in January we need to bite the bullet and loan Bergvall for his own development; such potential but not quite ready to do any real job for us in the regular sense. It will likely mean we need to push hard for that Gomes deal in Jan. Again, no blame laid at Bregy's feet at all tonight, but him and Maddison together don't work well, and in a game where you're looking to just play it out, he simply is not the right guy.

Have to give Archie Gray another shout out. Not spectacular but considering it is probably the least of his favourite positions, and that he was doing a job for the team tonight, I thought he did really well with Ben shepherding him through.
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No way Gomes could cope with the physicality of the EPL. There was a reason he had to move to France in the first place.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
We didn’t (IMO) have any issues with the CBS
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I felt Dragusin and Davies did well overall.
But I think it was a blundering Dragusin that knocked someone over out wide for the freekick for their 1st goal?
No need, no danger at all, just smashed him over. Reminded me of Aurier, smashing people for no reason.
Same as Bentancur late on, no danger, out by the touchline, the fella has only just come on, goes steaming in for a red card ankle breaker challenge.
Maybe he wants Christmas off already?
 
Bullet said:
I felt Dragusin and Davies did well overall.
But I think it was a blundering Dragusin that knocked someone over out wide for the freekick for their 1st goal?
No need, no danger at all, just smashed him over. Reminded me of Aurier, smashing people for no reason.
Same as Bentancur late on, no danger, out by the touchline, the fella has only just come on, goes steaming in for a red card ankle breaker challenge.
Maybe he wants Christmas off already?
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That was Kulu wasn’t it?
 
I'm fed up hearing the excuses rolled out by posters.
The only thing that counts is the result on the pitch.

We can have Sherringham in the first half and Rasiak in the second.
That now seems to be we can Sherringham in the first 10 mins, then some rando for 70 mins then a crap shoot for extratime. This is not entertaining, its fudging infuruating.
 
Bullet said:

For their goal at the end, Biss sat in rather than playing the offside.
Others just ran away rather than defending.
The cross from Angelino was an absolute arrow between Madds and Biss and Solanke, perfectly onto Hummels' shin.

On my stream, it froze and broke just as Angelino fizzed it, so I knew for a fact it had gone in.
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Yeah, poor from Bissouma especially after how many times the offside trap saved us earlier in the match.

At least Bergvall headed the corner away and Maddison slid in to try and block the cross but Werner barely moved from the moment the corner sailed over his head whilst Porro just stood there even though there’s 4 Roma players between him and Solanke’s back.

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Hmmn, that second half was a tough tough watch. Crowd was pretty flat the whole game, the team just wasn't great, Roma aren't mugs and Dybala was excellent.
My main take out is that we need to invest in top players, not "hopefulls" like Bergvall. We cannot compete in Europe when there are no forwards or game changers on the bench.
 
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