Lip service from Adebayor?
Being clinical now seems to be our buzz of the week and about time too. After QPR I hoped we had turned a mental corner, then against Sunderland it's back to our old ways.
When you are trying to change something, to instil a new mental attitude there will be ups and downs, players will revert to default setting and that is we are winning so all we have to do is keep the ball.
Luke Edwards in The Telegraph wrote:
I think he has misread Pochettino or doesn't understand the role of a coach. There is no point him giving the British rant and rave, it serves no purpose. We had thrown away two points because of our mental attitude, yes, but as a coach you take that on board, then figure out how to address the problem and the only way to do that is with calmness.
It seems an alien concept to the football fan in this country but the best decisions are made in calmness, just as a calm player will make the better decisions so will a calm manager. There needs to be a sharper mental focus as opposed to the lazy one we have. A player or team playing to win will most of the time out do an individual or team playing for fun. In effect, not literally, but in effect that's what we are doing, playing for fun. It's why I say we need winners in the side.
Winners don't make the mistake Capoue made to shove the player over, winners don't make the mistake both our centre-backs made that led to the ball hitting Kane. Fazio won the UEFA Europa League last season, I'm sure he wouldn't have just stood there and watched the ball, he'd have tried to clear the danger. It may seem tiny but it's the difference, switch off, goal conceded.
In the Spurs need to go mental series I detailed how we can make over 1,200 improvements to our squad. Each small little improvement adds up, if Capoue retained composure that's 1 improvement, if Kaboul and Chiriches don't switch off that's 2 more improvements, that's 3 team improvements and we've hardly done anything but already stopped a goal.
Every player should be taking steps towards improvements every single day physically or mentally or a skill or lifestyle, any area that improves them as an athlete and therefore a player. If each player made one small improvement each week they'd make around 40 improvements a season each, well that's 440 improvements in any XI selected, 1,000 squad improvements.
A side who makes 440 improvements a season is obviously going to be a better team that the side who just do what they have always done because this is the way you do it. Tat way of thinking is no longer good enough and that applies to all aspects of the club from the very top to the very bottom, everyone should be looking to improve every week in some small way,however minor, it all adds up.
Pochettino, quite rightly said after the game that we should have killed them off when we were 2-1 in front, Adebayor is now signing from the same hymn sheet, I hope it's not just public relations speak from him though.
We it's no good just talking about it and paying lip service to it Ade because you are one of the main culprits in the side. When we are 2 goals up in games in the second half where do you see Adebayor? You see him 40 yards from goal in midfield orchestrating passing among ourselves, playing keep ball,not looking to be clinical and scoring another goal.
That is part of the problem. You can't go from doing that to suddenly being clinical, you haven't trained yourself, not has the team trained itself to be that way, you have trained to do just enough and no more.
Result, yet again we drop points we shouldn't.
When you are trying to change something, to instil a new mental attitude there will be ups and downs, players will revert to default setting and that is we are winning so all we have to do is keep the ball.
Luke Edwards in The Telegraph wrote:
"It was not quite nonchalance, there was mild irritation that his side had not come away with all three points, but Mauricio Pochettino was remarkably serene for a manager who had just seen Tottenham Hotspur fail to win a game they had dominated from first whistle to last.
"For now, Pochettino can stick to the idea the team’s performance is all that matters, although at some point, it will only be the results that matter. No manager can escape that."
I think he has misread Pochettino or doesn't understand the role of a coach. There is no point him giving the British rant and rave, it serves no purpose. We had thrown away two points because of our mental attitude, yes, but as a coach you take that on board, then figure out how to address the problem and the only way to do that is with calmness.
It seems an alien concept to the football fan in this country but the best decisions are made in calmness, just as a calm player will make the better decisions so will a calm manager. There needs to be a sharper mental focus as opposed to the lazy one we have. A player or team playing to win will most of the time out do an individual or team playing for fun. In effect, not literally, but in effect that's what we are doing, playing for fun. It's why I say we need winners in the side.
Winners don't make the mistake Capoue made to shove the player over, winners don't make the mistake both our centre-backs made that led to the ball hitting Kane. Fazio won the UEFA Europa League last season, I'm sure he wouldn't have just stood there and watched the ball, he'd have tried to clear the danger. It may seem tiny but it's the difference, switch off, goal conceded.
In the Spurs need to go mental series I detailed how we can make over 1,200 improvements to our squad. Each small little improvement adds up, if Capoue retained composure that's 1 improvement, if Kaboul and Chiriches don't switch off that's 2 more improvements, that's 3 team improvements and we've hardly done anything but already stopped a goal.
Every player should be taking steps towards improvements every single day physically or mentally or a skill or lifestyle, any area that improves them as an athlete and therefore a player. If each player made one small improvement each week they'd make around 40 improvements a season each, well that's 440 improvements in any XI selected, 1,000 squad improvements.
A side who makes 440 improvements a season is obviously going to be a better team that the side who just do what they have always done because this is the way you do it. Tat way of thinking is no longer good enough and that applies to all aspects of the club from the very top to the very bottom, everyone should be looking to improve every week in some small way,however minor, it all adds up.
Pochettino, quite rightly said after the game that we should have killed them off when we were 2-1 in front, Adebayor is now signing from the same hymn sheet, I hope it's not just public relations speak from him though.
“If it happens a lot then yes, it is worrying. The most frustrating thing of the afternoon is that we weren’t rewarded for our performance.
“If you play badly and draw then it is quite good, as I am sure the Sunderland players will tell you. Their manager won’t be able to believe they came away with a point. We’ve got to finish teams off when we’ve got them on the ropes. We didn’t do that.”
We it's no good just talking about it and paying lip service to it Ade because you are one of the main culprits in the side. When we are 2 goals up in games in the second half where do you see Adebayor? You see him 40 yards from goal in midfield orchestrating passing among ourselves, playing keep ball,not looking to be clinical and scoring another goal.
That is part of the problem. You can't go from doing that to suddenly being clinical, you haven't trained yourself, not has the team trained itself to be that way, you have trained to do just enough and no more.
Result, yet again we drop points we shouldn't.
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