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West Ham Match Report - Kane/Ndombele culprits

West Ham Match Report - Kane/Ndombele culprits

West-Ham-v-Spurs

The Tottenham mental flops did it again.

There were two vital goal scoring moments for Tottenham in the second half to put us in the lead and win the game.

But on both occasions a lack of concentration cost us dear with the easy final pass.

Two £200,000 a week footballers couldn't play a simple ball across the box for a teammate to tap into an empty net.

Both gave the ball to the keeper.

One even played the ball too softly across, something I keep pointing out we do in our lazy style of play.

The culprits who cost us three points, Harry Kane and Tanguy Ndombele.

The two vital moments when it is imperative you get that final ball right...

Having torn open the opposition...

And both of them blow it.

You can look at the rest of the game but it is the 'vital moments' that make the difference.

The difference fell to Ndombele to give Kane a tap-in and Kane to give Son a tap-in, they flopped the vital moment.

That was the difference, that decided the game, that cost us the points.

Don't get me wrong, Ndombele was trying, was making the forward passes, didn't have a bad game...

But at the vital moment he fluffed his lines.

Harry Kane, I repeat, has given up.

He is half the player he was last season because he has lost his motivation to play for Spurs.

That loses you the edge...

You still try your best...

But that just puts you on a par with everyone else.

I'd like to see the stats of how much he was running per game last season and how much he is this season as well as his heat map.

We went 1-0 down and there was no urgency...

No leaders.

That tells you the desire isn't there in the squad and if that isn't there that means the players are not totally on board with what the head coach wants to do.

A defeat down to our mentality again, down to individual mentality.

We need mental training for crying out loud.


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3 comments

  1. Well that week went well. Remind me, which team rested their 1st teamers and which team had a game last Thursday.
    Slow pass, slow pass and slow pass, tippy-tappy, absolutely no penetration at all. Why didn't we cross more and get into them. All we did was try and go through the congested middle. Hammers didn't need to do anything, just defend in depth and hit on the break. We could have played all day and not scored particularly given the display in the second half. Again a lack lustre display in a derby game. I don't get it.
    • As the post points out, that perception of the game isn't an accurate one. Son missed a one-on-one and in the second half we had 1 pass to make for a tap-in twice but Kane and Ndombele fluffed their lines. That was the difference in the game, Hammers never looked like scoring either.
    • I don't argue with much of your take. Not enough urgency or positivity; too slow and careful going forward; not enough use of the wings; passes to feet and too gentle to challenge the defenders.

      However, we see bragging rights go to the side that won on the day but rarely do we consider what should have happened if VAR had done its job properly. How if Kane had scored the penalty early on when Tanguy was taken out in the box early in the game? How is it possible that when a ball has been played by player A and player B then charges him from 90 degrees as well as stamps on his foot - taking him thoroughly out of the game, that it isn't considered to be a foul?

      Had that been handled correctly by VAR (Paul Tierney was more than a little poor on the day but one can forgive him for misconstruing that challenge - but VAR?) then what would we be talking about. Failing to crush the Hammers is a pretty sure sign that we aren't playing at top four level certainly. Would it have b…