Tottenham Talk on Sunday 19th Sept
Tottenham Talk on Sunday 19th Sept
Our reactionary fans don't deserve success, they don't give anyone a chance, they want everything instant but the world rarely works like that.
We still have to cut our cloth until the stadium starts bring in the money, yet some have dismissed Nuno Espírito Santo already.
I saw a tweet by someone supposedly backing him and even they were saying support him until someone better comes along, hardly unequivocal support!
The guy has had seven games, it takes time to learn the new requirements of a manager, it can take a season to really get used to it.
To wish a guy out after seven games is not supporting the club in any shape or form so if you are one of those, don't pretend you are.
You still hanker for Mauricio Pochettino?
LOST 1-2 (h) v Newcastle United
LOST 4-1 (a) v Manchester City
WON 1-0 (h) v Southampton
DRAW 1-1 (a) v Arsenal
LOST 0-1 (h) v WBA
DRAW 2-2 (a) v Sunderland
LOST 0-3 (h) v Liverpool
WON 4-0 (h) v QPR
WON 0-1 (a) v West Ham United
That was the start of the Mauricio Pochettino reign, a lot worse than Nuno Espírito Santo, one win in seven games, so don't you think you should give the new Head Coach a chance?
We had scored 6 goals in the first 7 games and conceded 13.
WON 1-0 (h) v Manchester City
LOST 1-0 (a) v Paços de Ferreira (UECL)
WON 0-1 (a) v Wolverhampton Wanderers
WON 3-0 (h) v Paços de Ferreira (UECL)
WON 1-0 (h) v Watford
LOST 0-3 (a) v Crystal Palace
DRAW 2-2 (a) v Rennes (UECL)
Nuno's record compares favourable with Poch's so everyone should be behind the new head coach, not hankering for a return of the Argentinian, who is under contract at another club anyway.
Fabio Paratici is well aware of what we need, he is well aware the midfield needs strengthening, we saw our new right-back playing right midfield against Rennes, such is our injury list at the moment.
Let's turn our attention to the Chelsea game today.
8 Wins
21 Draws
34 losses
60 scored
112 conceded
It has been 7 games since our last win against them, the semi-final of the English Football League Cup (EFL) where we won 1-0 at Wembley Stadium, a Harry Kane penalty being the difference between the two sides on that occasion.
Since then won 0, drawn 2, lost 5, scoring 3 goals and conceding 10, on 4 of those occasions Chelsea scoring twice.
Spurs are playing at home.
Our last game we lost 0-1, before that drew 1-1 (EFL Cup won on penalties 5-4), lost 2-0 before our 1-0 1st Leg semi-final victory and prior to that, lost 0-2 again.
Recent statistics suggest a 2-0 defeat.
I'd suggest with a depleted squad we will be looking to stifle, stay tight and keep the scoreline 0-0 as long as possible, with the hope that we nick a goal of course.
That seems the sensible pragmatic approach to adopt.
Hugo Lloris has kept 3 clean sheets in 19 games (1,710 minutes) vs Chelsea.
Our French goalkeeper has made 51 shots on target saves and conceded 26 goals in these fixtures.
Lloris has a 62.7% saves ration against shots on target by Chelsea.
Harry Kane (1 assist) and Dele Alli have scored 6 goals each vs Chelsea.
Christian Eriksen had 7 assists against them, Dele Alli has 2.
Sunday’s English Premier League (EPL) action concludes at The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as the Lillywhites face a real test as we welcome the UEFA Champions League winners, Chelsea, in another capital club derby, one where there is no love lost.
Spurs welcome Chelsea after winning eight of our last ten Premier League home games (L2) whilst keeping six clean sheets in the process.
A victory here would top that off, however, we have only won their opening three home games of a Premier League campaign twice.
Chelsea have gone unbeaten in their opening four Premier League matches (W3, D1). Solid defending has been their key during that time, a Chelsea hallmark under Thomas Tuchel.
The German coach has now guided his side to 23 games without conceding a goal since he took charge of the West Londoners - the highest in Europe’s top-four leagues during that time.
Sides managed by Tuchel have conceded just once in three head-to-head fixtures against Tottenham (W3), though he could only manage a draw in his only meeting to date with Spurs current manager, Nuno Espírito Santo.
Chelsea are unbeaten in ten of their last 11 away league games (W7, D3, L1), have won all five of their last away London derbies, but have never won six consecutively in their history.
In response to some negative mentality comments left.
Sides managed by Tuchel have conceded just once in three head-to-head fixtures against Tottenham (W3), though he could only manage a draw in his only meeting to date with Spurs current manager, Nuno Espírito Santo.
Chelsea are unbeaten in ten of their last 11 away league games (W7, D3, L1), have won all five of their last away London derbies, but have never won six consecutively in their history.
In response to some negative mentality comments left.
Mr Negativity as I shall call him, already thinks we have lost the next three games!
They don't talk about 'if' we lose the next three games, but 'when' we lose the next three games.
That isn't support for a club at all, that's an excellent example of a failure mentality.
That failure mentality goes on to tell us we have bought a centre-back, who he clearly doesn't know, and is unaware was the best centre-back in Italy last season.
Equally he is unaware of Spanish football and the unknown full-back that we have signed is in fact a player we have tried to buy last summer, as any proper follower of the club would know.
Perhaps he should read my blog more regularly then they would be better informed.
This unknown full-back was only sold by Barcelona because they desperately needed to raise money to solve their financial difficulties to be able to register players with LaLiga.
Otherwise they would not have sold him, they had only recently activated their bay-back clause option, which they insert in all deals incase the player is a success elsewhere.
We don't currently play a system that incorporates a creative number 10 so buying one was not deemed to be of importance to Paratici and I can see why.
The players still have to adapt to this new system and that isn't done in a few games. Christian Eriksen was useless against a packed defence, he needed space and went into hiding in the Champions League final according to the great Italian midfielder Pirlo.
You're right fella, I'm not going to allow myself to be dragged down to your failure mentality level because the club isn't in the state you clearly want it to be in for your own ego.
@Paul - Tanganga can't be defended for the second goal, he had all the time in the world to throw one foot at the ball instead of trying to jump his legs closed, muddled thinking, panic, lack of clarity of thought, mental weakness, call it what you like, but it's a problem, especially when you add his his rashness against Crystal Palace that cost us points.
Ndombele received praise and criticism from me, praise for the 5 minutes on the ball, criticism for some of the 85 minutes off the ball, namely the dangling of a foot to allow them their first goal.
I see both sides of the coin, but it was better than he has shown in many games before, let's hope he keeps it up.
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