The overriding impression for Asteras Tripolis
The overriding impression of the game last night was once again around the players poor attitude. Not all of them but certainly certain players in the first half gave the impression that this is going to be easy for us, Dembele looked especially lazy, but then he often does.
Once again he was passing the ball wide to Ben Davies and Davies is having to stand there and wait for it to arrive, if it did with the opponents realising they could intercept balls he played. Balls played wide should be zipped, there should be urgency in a pass, not a casual stroll of a pass.
That one thing more than anything else shouts, I can't be bothered.
We played slow casual stuff while they had everyone behind the ball before scoring a couple of goals. I had to laugh watching Andros Townsend sprint to get the ball to take a penalty, that rather tells me we are not playing as a team but a bunch of individuals. Surely it should have all been decided who the nominated penalty taker is before the game, not whoever can get to the ball first. I don't knock him for wanting to take it, it shows the right attitude but it does raise questions.
The second goal was put the ball into an area and let the striker make it his, just what Alan Shearer used to do and explains all wide men should do. Picking out a player is not always how you cross and the criticism Lennon in particular gets is often misplaced. He of ten does what he should, put it into an area but our forwards don't do their job properly and it makes him look bad.
I spoke after the Newcastle game about a cancer within the club, throughout the club with the wrong approach. There isn't a club culture of continuous improvement, more of this is how it's always been done so this is how we do it, it's archaic. Once again the players demonstrated on the pitch the lazy, switched off attitude they had against Newcastle and they had two chances to score within a minute and a half, in the Premier League they would have been taken.
It simply isn't good enough and isn't being addressed. Why, because the club are blind to the problem.
I'll say it again, when we are 2-0 up we should be clinical, we have to learn how to be clinical, not this we have done enough attitude, that is the attitude of a loser. Yet again at the end we nearly came unstuck and ended up defending with 10 men. A winning mentality doesn't just appear because you win a few games, there is an awful lot more to it than that and Tottenham are a million miles away from having one.
We should have taken the game by the scruff of the neck and killed the opposition off with another couple of goals but it was as if we no longer had a midfield and they could simply run at our defence at will.
We won, great, but we won against a low standard of opponent who we displayed the wrong mentality yet again. The panel were right at the start and told the truth, Spurs have not been impressive this season.
Once again he was passing the ball wide to Ben Davies and Davies is having to stand there and wait for it to arrive, if it did with the opponents realising they could intercept balls he played. Balls played wide should be zipped, there should be urgency in a pass, not a casual stroll of a pass.
That one thing more than anything else shouts, I can't be bothered.
We played slow casual stuff while they had everyone behind the ball before scoring a couple of goals. I had to laugh watching Andros Townsend sprint to get the ball to take a penalty, that rather tells me we are not playing as a team but a bunch of individuals. Surely it should have all been decided who the nominated penalty taker is before the game, not whoever can get to the ball first. I don't knock him for wanting to take it, it shows the right attitude but it does raise questions.
The second goal was put the ball into an area and let the striker make it his, just what Alan Shearer used to do and explains all wide men should do. Picking out a player is not always how you cross and the criticism Lennon in particular gets is often misplaced. He of ten does what he should, put it into an area but our forwards don't do their job properly and it makes him look bad.
I spoke after the Newcastle game about a cancer within the club, throughout the club with the wrong approach. There isn't a club culture of continuous improvement, more of this is how it's always been done so this is how we do it, it's archaic. Once again the players demonstrated on the pitch the lazy, switched off attitude they had against Newcastle and they had two chances to score within a minute and a half, in the Premier League they would have been taken.
It simply isn't good enough and isn't being addressed. Why, because the club are blind to the problem.
I'll say it again, when we are 2-0 up we should be clinical, we have to learn how to be clinical, not this we have done enough attitude, that is the attitude of a loser. Yet again at the end we nearly came unstuck and ended up defending with 10 men. A winning mentality doesn't just appear because you win a few games, there is an awful lot more to it than that and Tottenham are a million miles away from having one.
We should have taken the game by the scruff of the neck and killed the opposition off with another couple of goals but it was as if we no longer had a midfield and they could simply run at our defence at will.
We won, great, but we won against a low standard of opponent who we displayed the wrong mentality yet again. The panel were right at the start and told the truth, Spurs have not been impressive this season.
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