Dawson vs Kane adds something to the game today
The battle for Europe commences once again, now with just 6 points to play for. next up is Hull City, fighting for their lives with a few of our old boys in their ranks, Huddlestone, Livermore and former captain Michael Dawson, who deserves a tremendous cheer from the Spurs faithful.
Liverpool 62 points
Tottenham 58 points
Southampton 57 points
The last home game of the season the side will hopefully want to go out in a blaze of glory at home, but we hear the right noises before every game only to find out they are just PR words for the media.
No disrespect to Hull City, but we should be winning this game, but then we should be winning against Burnley and the like. Our current form is abysmal with the attacking players playing either on empty or mentally worn out. Chadli hasn't recovered from the death of his father and I can sympathise with that having lost my own towards the latter end of last year,
Eriksen was poor to average when he foirst arrived, had 3 months of brilliance under Tim Sherwood, winning the player of the year and has had another spell of brilliance for us. Alas for the last 2 months he hasn't had a decent game, fatigue must be playing it's part.
Erik lamela simply hasn't adapted to the Premier League and the faster pace of game. He came from a league where he has time to make his decisions, in the Premier League you don't get that and if you can't make quick decisions you are lost.
He is all effort and no end product I'm afraid. the simple solution is vision. he needs to be constantly looking around and training himself to know exactly where everyone is at any given time and what runs they couls make, then he can make quick decisions and have an impact on the game. test have proven that greater vision, attained by simply looking around more, results in a player more accurate in his passing ad more telling in his contribution.
Vision is a habit developed as we grow, it's not trained to the degree it could be. I often talk about making little changes and these changes all mount up to make a significant difference. Vision is minor in training terms but theoretically easy to supplement with specialised training.
Mentality in sport at the top level is everything, it separates the top quality player from the talented players who don't perform as well as they should, like Lamela and Mousa Dembele. Unless you work on their mentality and improve that then you are simply going to get more of the same, some good with plenty of disappointment thrown in, much like a typical Spurs season.
A sports psychologist working with individual players would resolve that. What happens though is a player will only work with a sports psychologist if he himself thinks he needs to, unfortunately these are the very people who need to, the ones that can't see the problem they have. because it is something that the individual has to buy into it's difficult to force them to do it.
A system needs to be put into place where it id the norm, where it is expected, where it is an integral part of improving a player and increasing his value. It's an area to give us an advantage over the teams with more money and make us an attractive proposition to any player who wants to be the best. That would enable us to sign players we perhaps wouldn't normally be able to get.
Still that's the future of football, hopefully we will see it first, but I don't hold my breath.
Back to today and we have no idea which Tottenham will turn up, presumably Danny Rose will be fit and slot in at left-back with Jan Vertonghen moving to central defence. Do we find a starting place for Dembele to rest a tired mind or stick with what presumably is preparation for next season.
Kane vs Dawson should be interesting and add something to the game if we can give Harry some opportunities, something we have struggled to do in the last few games. The final game at Everton will be a tough one so three points today is needed. Fingers crossed.
Liverpool 62 points
Tottenham 58 points
Southampton 57 points
The last home game of the season the side will hopefully want to go out in a blaze of glory at home, but we hear the right noises before every game only to find out they are just PR words for the media.
No disrespect to Hull City, but we should be winning this game, but then we should be winning against Burnley and the like. Our current form is abysmal with the attacking players playing either on empty or mentally worn out. Chadli hasn't recovered from the death of his father and I can sympathise with that having lost my own towards the latter end of last year,
Eriksen was poor to average when he foirst arrived, had 3 months of brilliance under Tim Sherwood, winning the player of the year and has had another spell of brilliance for us. Alas for the last 2 months he hasn't had a decent game, fatigue must be playing it's part.
Erik lamela simply hasn't adapted to the Premier League and the faster pace of game. He came from a league where he has time to make his decisions, in the Premier League you don't get that and if you can't make quick decisions you are lost.
He is all effort and no end product I'm afraid. the simple solution is vision. he needs to be constantly looking around and training himself to know exactly where everyone is at any given time and what runs they couls make, then he can make quick decisions and have an impact on the game. test have proven that greater vision, attained by simply looking around more, results in a player more accurate in his passing ad more telling in his contribution.
Vision is a habit developed as we grow, it's not trained to the degree it could be. I often talk about making little changes and these changes all mount up to make a significant difference. Vision is minor in training terms but theoretically easy to supplement with specialised training.
Mentality in sport at the top level is everything, it separates the top quality player from the talented players who don't perform as well as they should, like Lamela and Mousa Dembele. Unless you work on their mentality and improve that then you are simply going to get more of the same, some good with plenty of disappointment thrown in, much like a typical Spurs season.
A sports psychologist working with individual players would resolve that. What happens though is a player will only work with a sports psychologist if he himself thinks he needs to, unfortunately these are the very people who need to, the ones that can't see the problem they have. because it is something that the individual has to buy into it's difficult to force them to do it.
A system needs to be put into place where it id the norm, where it is expected, where it is an integral part of improving a player and increasing his value. It's an area to give us an advantage over the teams with more money and make us an attractive proposition to any player who wants to be the best. That would enable us to sign players we perhaps wouldn't normally be able to get.
Still that's the future of football, hopefully we will see it first, but I don't hold my breath.
Back to today and we have no idea which Tottenham will turn up, presumably Danny Rose will be fit and slot in at left-back with Jan Vertonghen moving to central defence. Do we find a starting place for Dembele to rest a tired mind or stick with what presumably is preparation for next season.
Kane vs Dawson should be interesting and add something to the game if we can give Harry some opportunities, something we have struggled to do in the last few games. The final game at Everton will be a tough one so three points today is needed. Fingers crossed.
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