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Listening to yesterdays commentary from Ray Houghton he kept telling us how Kyle Walker and Danny Rose were getting at Sunderland wide and then telling us that Chadli and Eriksen need to get wide as they are too central so we have no width. He tells us he is surprised Townsend didn't come on earlier to give us width we are playing too narrow, yet had been saying Rose and Walker have got plenty of time to deliver a ball into the box. He doesn't seem the understand the concept that full-backs provide your width.
His tells us Christian Eriksen's corners are poor as he keeps hitting the first man and that he needs to float one into the box, which is wrong as it's easy for the keeper. Eriksen does as Houghton suggests and he tells us it's a waste, a nothing ball with the height of the Sunderland keeper. If you put the ball in the air like that it's goalkeeping practice. He ought to make up his mind.
Then he tells us he doesn't know the offside rule, there must be two players but he doesn't know whether that applies to a player's own half. Well every club footballer knows you can't be offside in your own half so why doesn't someone in his position, an ex professional footballer himself?
Mousa Dembele is definitely trying now under Pochettino after just doing his own thing prior to November. He is playing more balls forward, he is playing them quicker and I would suggest, over 50% of them now at a greater speed. That keeps our game at a higher tempo that he was keeping it at before.
Danny Mills said on BBC Final Score that he had spoken to Brad Friedel who told him that Mauricio Pochettino was a very good coach and that Spurs will come good, while Phil Neville said on Match of the Day, also on the BBC, that Tottenham were a better team with Pochettino in charge.
Christian Eriksen netted another winner and Gary Lineker anchoring Match of the Day told us that Eriksen has been responsible for picking up more points for his side that any other player in the Premier League.
Sunderland were constantly kicking the ball away and the referee was doing nothing about it. It happens in every game, the players know exactly what they are doing and the referee should stop it immediately. We ought to go back to the rule you take the goal kick from one side the ball went out, goodness knows why it changed. All you get now is a keeper walking from one side of the goal to the other to waste time when surely the authorities should be maximising the amount of time the ball stay in play, not minimising it.
Also why do they not mark where free kicks should be taken, there was a game against us recently where the team moved the ball 20 yards forward so they could pump it into the area. Unless if the free kick hasn't been taken quickly, what's to stop him quickly marking a spot and jogging off? Why don't the assistant referees (linesman) ensure the free kick is taken from the right place, when possible, if it in their half? Why don't they stand 5 yards up the touchline from a throw in, when possible, so a player can't go wandering up the touchline? All simple little things, easily introduced.
Eric Dier had a solid game and Emmanuel Adebayor ran around trying but looked as if he was playing in a new team unsure of how they play, which I guess he is, given his attitude so far this season.
If anyone has not seen the game you can watch the full match here.
His tells us Christian Eriksen's corners are poor as he keeps hitting the first man and that he needs to float one into the box, which is wrong as it's easy for the keeper. Eriksen does as Houghton suggests and he tells us it's a waste, a nothing ball with the height of the Sunderland keeper. If you put the ball in the air like that it's goalkeeping practice. He ought to make up his mind.
Then he tells us he doesn't know the offside rule, there must be two players but he doesn't know whether that applies to a player's own half. Well every club footballer knows you can't be offside in your own half so why doesn't someone in his position, an ex professional footballer himself?
Mousa Dembele is definitely trying now under Pochettino after just doing his own thing prior to November. He is playing more balls forward, he is playing them quicker and I would suggest, over 50% of them now at a greater speed. That keeps our game at a higher tempo that he was keeping it at before.
Danny Mills said on BBC Final Score that he had spoken to Brad Friedel who told him that Mauricio Pochettino was a very good coach and that Spurs will come good, while Phil Neville said on Match of the Day, also on the BBC, that Tottenham were a better team with Pochettino in charge.
Christian Eriksen netted another winner and Gary Lineker anchoring Match of the Day told us that Eriksen has been responsible for picking up more points for his side that any other player in the Premier League.
Sunderland were constantly kicking the ball away and the referee was doing nothing about it. It happens in every game, the players know exactly what they are doing and the referee should stop it immediately. We ought to go back to the rule you take the goal kick from one side the ball went out, goodness knows why it changed. All you get now is a keeper walking from one side of the goal to the other to waste time when surely the authorities should be maximising the amount of time the ball stay in play, not minimising it.
Also why do they not mark where free kicks should be taken, there was a game against us recently where the team moved the ball 20 yards forward so they could pump it into the area. Unless if the free kick hasn't been taken quickly, what's to stop him quickly marking a spot and jogging off? Why don't the assistant referees (linesman) ensure the free kick is taken from the right place, when possible, if it in their half? Why don't they stand 5 yards up the touchline from a throw in, when possible, so a player can't go wandering up the touchline? All simple little things, easily introduced.
Eric Dier had a solid game and Emmanuel Adebayor ran around trying but looked as if he was playing in a new team unsure of how they play, which I guess he is, given his attitude so far this season.
If anyone has not seen the game you can watch the full match here.
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