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A Not Unexpected Result


A Not Unexpected Result

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Worrying start to the season for Spurs

The accident waiting to happen happened.

Unfortunately, the result wasn't an unexpected one, it had 1-0 to Newcastle written all over it as soon as you heard the team.

The issues I have been highlighting were in evidence once again and I'm sorry for all those Kyle Walker-Peters fans but he yet again offered nothing going forward.

We are missing Kieran Trippier already. At the moment we have no attacking threat down the right, no attacking threat centrally, with no creative player playing against a packed defence and Danny Rose at left-back who is nowhere near the player he was a couple of years ago.

For 62 minutes we offered little or no threat to a team who didn't need to do anything apart from park the bus after we gifted them a goal.

Danny Rose once again didn't anticipate, didn't read the game and reacted to a situation too late. The same mistake he made against Aston Villa he made again. Further evidence that when you are not 100% focussed on the club you can not give 100% mentally and that affects your game.

Davinson Sanchez is a right-sided centre-back and you can see he is doing what is natural to him, he is getting pulled or is drifting across. Who was calling who where there lone striker was?

Once Walker-Peters came of and Sissoko went to right-back we suddenly started creating chances from the right but fluffed our lines in front of goal.

The game next week against Arsenal is a real worry.

Do we pick Eric Dier at right-back? he has been training there.
When is Serge Aurier fit enough to start? 
When is Giovani Lo Celso fit to start?
When is Dele Alli fit to start?
Should Jan Vertonghen be playing?

We have got away with it in the first two weeks of the season. but not in week three, week four isn't any easier.

It's a worry and it's frustrating that the glaring problems aren't/can't be addressed.


3 comments

  1. If what you say about Rose not being 100% then the same must be true of Alderweireld and Eriksen, so do we drop all three?
    Yet again we have made the same mistakes in our pre season purchases which is having a negative impact on our season.
    However we have yet again started a season with the same problems we had at the end of the last season and all teams have got to do is play us on the counter then defend.
    What is the point of all the possession we have when we actually do not create anything from it all we do is crab from one side of the pitch to the other and create nothing
    The stats prove it at one point we had had 82% possession yet had not created one chance on goal and Newcastle had 3 attempts two on target and one goal
    Says it all we have been found out and unless we can sort out the behind the scenes issues we will struggle this season
    • I agree with you, the author want to blame KWP why I don't know while the problem was last season too we don't create enough chances against a compact defense which is a coaching matter not individual matter as the author pointed, I remember against Chelsea we didn't have a single shot on their goals, teams are understanding the way of our play we are too slow and predictable, look at Liverpool they have no creative midfielder but they got the results and the display, look at Man City they can unpack any compact defense, so the problem is in our style of play not in our individual, in my point view with compact defense you should use crossing and attempt for the second ball while the opposition team are not in shape. How to use crossing ?? is by creating space in the flanks so we should use 3-5-2 formation which give you extra number of players in midfield and push the fullbacks forward that's allow you to use all your players in the attacking third and there is 4-3-3 …
  2. Totally agree with Tony, firstly shouldn't the coach accept responsibility for the style of play we have adopted for last 2 years? Shouldn't the goalkeeper be telling his defenders where the attacking dangers are? Shouldn't we recognise some of the squad simply are not good enough?
    What really annoys me is that I counted a 20 pass period of play where I could of completed 19 of them and I am 66. Look at Pool against Arsholes, all their players played with passion, pace and power, so where has it all gone wrong, don't blame the players, blame the coach.