A win we didn't deserve
At last a TV expert who can actually see we pass slowly and by that I mean we roll the ball to each other, especially between defenders, so each player has to wait for the ball to arrive. The opposition over one side of the pitch have time to jog over to the other side of the pitch which negates changing the angle of attack.
It's simple things like this that show the mentality of a side, the mentality of players and Graeme Souness, who should be on TV more as he is second to Gary Neville as a TV pundit, pointed our slow passing out. Then when talking about Manchester City, although he could have been talking about us, he said that some of the players don't take the lesser teams seriously enough.
That's Spurs players alright. We won, but we didn't deserve to, there are serious problems with this shower. We have too many players who are trying to develop and not enough that have done most of their developing.
Etienne Capoue was again poor defensively and Mason is good when the ball is at his feet, but also defensively he is a mile away from what we need. When he gets the ball he is the one who passes quickly, a zipped pass out wide instead of a slow roll.
Look at the first half, Aston Villa after 11 minutes. Their keeper gave the ball to a player 20 yards from goal, he ran unopposed to within 20 yards of our box and had all the time in the world to cross for Benteke to have a diving header wide. They had the run of the left flank the whole first-half, you have to feel for Danny Rose, it isn't his fault he is left completely on his own like last season again.
After 13 minutes they attacked our right and all three defenders centrally were ball watching, all three rushing back to inside the 6 yard box while Benteke waited for a pull back unmarked. Fortunately he hit the woodwork, Kaboul completely misses a simple header, Benteke heads just wide. It simply isn't good enough.
For the Villa goal Mason was simply jogging back as is defending wasn't his concern. Capoue went to sleep just watching the ball and leaving Andreas Weimann free to tuck it home, he had actually run from the half-way line straight past Mason.
In the second half both Capoue and Vertonghen lost their heads, Capoue spent the whole time arguing with the referee as if it was his fault, he is not the answer as a defensive midfielder, not by a long way. Why have we bought Stambouli? Isn't that his position, a passing defensive midfielder or is he now the understudy for Ryan Mason?
It's all well and good Niall Quinn saying the players have got to buy into the high pressing game but they haven't in 5 months so why are they suddenly going to start now? We have had 10 league games plus Cup games and have played more football than any other Premier League team, yet the players appear to have learnt nothing. They had better learn pretty damn fast because if we expect to play like that we are going to lose a lot of games this season.
Hard work is not something half of this lot want or are prepared to do in a game. We won but by luck really, good movement from Chadli who took a chance and it paid off then a deflected free-kick that would have been easily saved had a Villa player not headed into his own net.
The three points papers over the cracks just like Gareth Bale used to do.
It's simple things like this that show the mentality of a side, the mentality of players and Graeme Souness, who should be on TV more as he is second to Gary Neville as a TV pundit, pointed our slow passing out. Then when talking about Manchester City, although he could have been talking about us, he said that some of the players don't take the lesser teams seriously enough.
That's Spurs players alright. We won, but we didn't deserve to, there are serious problems with this shower. We have too many players who are trying to develop and not enough that have done most of their developing.
Etienne Capoue was again poor defensively and Mason is good when the ball is at his feet, but also defensively he is a mile away from what we need. When he gets the ball he is the one who passes quickly, a zipped pass out wide instead of a slow roll.
Look at the first half, Aston Villa after 11 minutes. Their keeper gave the ball to a player 20 yards from goal, he ran unopposed to within 20 yards of our box and had all the time in the world to cross for Benteke to have a diving header wide. They had the run of the left flank the whole first-half, you have to feel for Danny Rose, it isn't his fault he is left completely on his own like last season again.
After 13 minutes they attacked our right and all three defenders centrally were ball watching, all three rushing back to inside the 6 yard box while Benteke waited for a pull back unmarked. Fortunately he hit the woodwork, Kaboul completely misses a simple header, Benteke heads just wide. It simply isn't good enough.
For the Villa goal Mason was simply jogging back as is defending wasn't his concern. Capoue went to sleep just watching the ball and leaving Andreas Weimann free to tuck it home, he had actually run from the half-way line straight past Mason.
In the second half both Capoue and Vertonghen lost their heads, Capoue spent the whole time arguing with the referee as if it was his fault, he is not the answer as a defensive midfielder, not by a long way. Why have we bought Stambouli? Isn't that his position, a passing defensive midfielder or is he now the understudy for Ryan Mason?
It's all well and good Niall Quinn saying the players have got to buy into the high pressing game but they haven't in 5 months so why are they suddenly going to start now? We have had 10 league games plus Cup games and have played more football than any other Premier League team, yet the players appear to have learnt nothing. They had better learn pretty damn fast because if we expect to play like that we are going to lose a lot of games this season.
Hard work is not something half of this lot want or are prepared to do in a game. We won but by luck really, good movement from Chadli who took a chance and it paid off then a deflected free-kick that would have been easily saved had a Villa player not headed into his own net.
The three points papers over the cracks just like Gareth Bale used to do.
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