GlennGoddle
Tim Sherwood
I'd make them all travel home on a National Express. That should teach them.
Mason
Bentaleb
Carroll
All not good enough.
Son
Onomah
Need to improve
Walker - learn how to cross
Another striker
2 midfielders
Someone to replace Eriksen. We need better than him.
This is exactly it for me. Yes Saudi Sportswashing Machine had camped deep and I can understand Poch wanting us to go for it but to me that is the kind of substitution you would make with 5-10 minutes to go with nothing to lose. For the first time in the match although losing we were starting to gain control and the momentum had started to swing in our favour. The substitution left us badly exposed to the counter attack. We played the system so badly i wonder if we had even trained for it because no-one seem to have a clue of what they were meant to be doing out there
thats exactly what we should have done. 100%. i think we would have won. we should have been starting rose anyway.Agreed. Subbing on Chadli was strange. We should've kept our formation and put on Rose instead. We lost our shape as soon as Chadli came on.
The third goal came as a result of no one knowing where they were supposed to play. We had no right back, and we went gung ho far too early. There were still 20+ minutes left including injury time, yet we were wide open to the counter attack.This is exactly it for me. Yes Saudi Sportswashing Machine had camped deep and I can understand Poch wanting us to go for it but to me that is the kind of substitution you would make with 5-10 minutes to go with nothing to lose. For the first time in the match although losing we were starting to gain control and the momentum had started to swing in our favour. The substitution left us badly exposed to the counter attack. We played the system so badly i wonder if we had even trained for it because no-one seem to have a clue of what they were meant to be doing out there
Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino:"First of all I would like to apologise to our fans, I think they don’t deserve all that happened today on the pitch and I apologise. It was a shame and diffcult to understand
"In the last couple of weeks when you do not play with 100 per cent it is impossible to win games and after Chelsea something happened. We cannot manage games in the right way.
"I am very disappointed because our fans don’t deserve it, it is difficult to go tonight and see my boys and my wife. I think it is unbelievable and we are very disappointed.
"We had the possibility to stay second and how we lost and how we gave to the opponent that is relegated, in the first and second half, they score three goals with 10 players it is the worst day as a manager and I feel very disappointed. We need to be sure that never happens again and need to improve our mentality. We were on holiday and that is the reality."
It's just an observation based on history
The players were not on holiday. Mentally and physically they were shot. The manager has to analyse why he got them into this situation.
Agreed. Pathetic are those saying things like that.
Silverware or nothing. From the team that haven't won silverware of importance in2025 years.
Every club in the league, except of course Leicester, can justify their failure to finish ahead of the team above them with "Well we could have, but silverware or nothing init"
Clusterfudge - Pochettino will now have a lot of work to do to turn this round because something got broke today.
This is exactly it for me. Yes Saudi Sportswashing Machine had camped deep and I can understand Poch wanting us to go for it but to me that is the kind of substitution you would make with 5-10 minutes to go with nothing to lose. For the first time in the match although losing we were starting to gain control and the momentum had started to swing in our favour. The substitution left us badly exposed to the counter attack. We played the system so badly i wonder if we had even trained for it because no-one seem to have a clue of what they were meant to be doing out there
No it didn't
It was a brick, brick performance, but what did we not know going in?
We knew that
A) without Dembele, Alli and Rose we are a slower, more laborious side.
B) Without Dembele and Alli out midfied simply doesn't work as well.
C) The club have outgrown Mason and Carroll.
D) Our bench is not strong enough to make a true impact.
Let's see who has the courage to back the manager to learn and progress, to upgrade where clearly necessary.
No excuses, this was an absolute unmittigated shocker, and follows on from another poor performance last week. But let's not sound the doomwatch eh?