fernadez
Jermaine Jenas
Two crosses from the left wasn't they?
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**** Sporting Clube de Portugal v Tottenham Hotspur FC ****
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Two crosses from the left wasn't they?
FolkestoneSpur
Neil Sullivan
Last I heard We're going ahead and of course the goons are getting a day off. Hopefully bites them later.
papaspur
Kasey Keller
I think only three fixtures were confirmed postponed for this coming weekend.
Sporting made 4 subs tonight and we only made 1. The headline of our match tonight is that their subs came on and made an impact. Ours were sitting on the bench wondering why Got hates them so much that they can't even get picked ahead of Royal.
Jurgen the German
Willie Hall
Think there is a bit of revisionism going on here. Granted tonight wasn’t good enough, but to say we’ve been poor all season isn’t right. We deserved to beat Soton, Forest and Fulham. Just about deserved it against Wolves albeit not a vintage performance. Got away with it against West Ham and Chelsea tbf. Not saying the performances can’t be improved on, but we’ve had far worse starts to the season. Conte could help himself but rotating at RWB, starting Kulu every league game whilst he is playing this well and making better use of the subs in general. You have five subs Antonio, use them.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
Nah we’re brick
Another annoying thing I have been thinking about is that Doherty and Kulu seemed to be having a good partnership on that side until Doherty got injured in the Villa game wasn`t it last season? Emerson is ok but some of his decision making is so bad. I know it is a long fixture congested season and strange having the world cup in the middle of it, and Conte is probably thinking in the long term but I have to agree with the previous comments about the use of subs. The likes of Spence and Bissouma etc are not getting any experience/match fitness sitting on the bench. Whats the betting the line up at the weekend is the same starting 11? Maybe Sessengon and Lenglet will come in but I dont expect many other changes
Grays_1890
Barry Daines
We have been far from poor all season its just some have taken a ride along and tonight that got shown up, we have got away with carry players, Europe at its punishing best tonight proved thats not happening. We can not afford Son and Kane to be so out of form and we also can't have people continue to believe that just because some of our worse players have not stunk up the joint in a handful of games, that they are somehow now good enough
Mosquito_Coasting
Gerry Armstrong
I can see how Kane and Richarlison would be extremely dangerous on crosses with Kulu and Perisic delivering.
We probably just about deserved the wins we got but it's far from convincing. Can't keep winning by being only slightly better than other teams.
For how poor Kane was, he was still the one that created out best two chances. Only prob was they fell to Emerson.
Son contributed nothing again and has to be the one to make way.
Baleforce
Les Bennett
I didn’t watch the game. Stupid kick off time.
But I saw nothing to change my opinion that we are bottle job clams with a weak mentality, my favourites of course are exempted from this, I’m sure they played well, as we didn’t score I’m assuming the sulky twins up front purposely put no effort in again, just to tinkle me off.
Spurs will always let you down.
But I saw nothing to change my opinion that we are bottle job clams with a weak mentality, my favourites of course are exempted from this, I’m sure they played well, as we didn’t score I’m assuming the sulky twins up front purposely put no effort in again, just to tinkle me off.
Spurs will always let you down.
Jurgen the German
Willie Hall
Your mate Royal missed some great chances and was partly at fault for both goals they scored. Will probably still be starting every game until I’m a pensioner.
Kulu was our best player as usual.
Kane was poor. Ditto Hojbjerg.
seaside spur
Naybet
Umm , one of Kane or Son needs to be dropped.
glasgowspur
Andy Thompson
I won't get too wrapped up in this result or performance, we were two mins away from a good point.
Lisbon aren't an easy touch, we were the better team for large spells and our week has been disrupted.
But something needs done about son/kulu and our subs policy.
Lisbon aren't an easy touch, we were the better team for large spells and our week has been disrupted.
But something needs done about son/kulu and our subs policy.
Pirate55
The Last Man Standing 17/18
For me, there is only one man to blame for tonight's fiasco. It was plain as day that we were struggling. Hugo had to make three excellent saves to keep us in it. Their goalie had a quiet night with only a regulation save from Kane to deal with.
Why did Conte only use one sub? Why didn't he change tactics and personnel? Why weren't Hojberg and Royal hooked as soon as they got yellows? Why was Son allowed to struggle on for so long? Where are our innovative free kicks and corners from our new guru? Why can't our wing backs cut the ball back to the penalty spot for our attackers to run on to? Why have our supposed world class players looked so off the pace? Why can't midfielders make simple passes correctly weighted?
It only leaves one question:
Is it Conte's brother in charge?
Why did Conte only use one sub? Why didn't he change tactics and personnel? Why weren't Hojberg and Royal hooked as soon as they got yellows? Why was Son allowed to struggle on for so long? Where are our innovative free kicks and corners from our new guru? Why can't our wing backs cut the ball back to the penalty spot for our attackers to run on to? Why have our supposed world class players looked so off the pace? Why can't midfielders make simple passes correctly weighted?
It only leaves one question:
Is it Conte's brother in charge?
I would say that he can likely see the same thing as everyone else regarding Son v Kulu but is choosing to continue playing Son in an attempt to have him find form - the longer he goes without playing well the sooner Conte will have a decision to make on that.
fudge knows what's going on with RWB though
papaspur
Kasey Keller
TBF, we did have one FK that looked promising. For starters, Son was taking it which was a huge plus. Kane made a clever shift from the left side of the box to the right and Son just passed it into that space he was moving towards. Ended up a bit wide but it was a decent try.
SpurMeUp
Gary Stevens
Thought the loss was on Conte. Didn’t make subs when we visibly tired. We were good for a draw with fresh legs.
Seeing Edwards it hinted at what we often miss: a disruptive influence in the final third. Would love to see a fast player exploit the space on our right flank. Teams would be far more stretched defending against a Traore than with Royal. Not that he plays badly, he just doesn’t explode into space, cross or finish well lol.
I thought Bentancur stunk. Why Conte didn’t switch him, and Hojgjerg at the end who was shagged, idk. Skipp and Bissouma on around 60mins, I think we win that.
The other reason we didn’t win at a canter, for me, was how we tried to force passes that weren’t there. 9 times out of 10 when we tried quick forward passes our play broke down. We need a plan B in that situation. Either the player passing wasn’t set and able to really make the pass. Or the runner was well marshalled. Credit to them. Happy for a small side to pull that off and great see Edwards. We should still top the group, but need to improve and be more dynamic. It’s too predictable that we’ll try to play fast forward passes. Teams work to stop the pass and track the runner. We needed one more pass often before going for the through ball. A bit more patience coordinating the run/movement until the pass was on.
Seeing Edwards it hinted at what we often miss: a disruptive influence in the final third. Would love to see a fast player exploit the space on our right flank. Teams would be far more stretched defending against a Traore than with Royal. Not that he plays badly, he just doesn’t explode into space, cross or finish well lol.
I thought Bentancur stunk. Why Conte didn’t switch him, and Hojgjerg at the end who was shagged, idk. Skipp and Bissouma on around 60mins, I think we win that.
The other reason we didn’t win at a canter, for me, was how we tried to force passes that weren’t there. 9 times out of 10 when we tried quick forward passes our play broke down. We need a plan B in that situation. Either the player passing wasn’t set and able to really make the pass. Or the runner was well marshalled. Credit to them. Happy for a small side to pull that off and great see Edwards. We should still top the group, but need to improve and be more dynamic. It’s too predictable that we’ll try to play fast forward passes. Teams work to stop the pass and track the runner. We needed one more pass often before going for the through ball. A bit more patience coordinating the run/movement until the pass was on.
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metalgear
Luka Modric
Sounds like us all season.
Some said it was the points that mattered, be happy.
But it was coming all along.
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