Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Liked the way RDZ came out among the players during their warm up. Hopefully a regular occurrence. Tho maybe he just wanted to catch a glimpse of the giant(ish) flag
I see that guy we had as manager has slotted in nicely to Chelsea and Lo and behold, he has strikers who can score….and they therefore win games.
Who would have thought?
If only we had thought of that.
zerbi out, Dyche in
So I imagined all those balls kicked straight into touch?
I watched from near the Spurs fans in the lower west and it seemed there were so many chances to shoot but we didn’t and looked for that little Killer ball….
Whilst there were occasions when we could have taken a pass less in the final third, some of the time this was because Spurs got someone in the way. The Spurs defence did a good job and deserve some credit.
Liked the way RDZ came out among the players during their warm up. Hopefully a regular occurrence. Tho maybe he just wanted to catch a glimpse of the giant(ish) flag
but my intent for this isn't for 'we're doomed' or 'we're heading to europe' type extremes,
His long passing is excellent. All those absurdly good passes to Cucurella and Burn. Sure, not success every time but more often than not.
But certainly too soon to say. We've played two game against two top teams. Ask again next week.
So I imagined all those balls kicked straight into touch?
Why are we trying to pass the ball in the net? Talk about over do things around the box. 1-0 down isn’t really the time for Trossard to try audacious lobs to Lallana.
There is a very fine line between playing out from the backk and fannying around at the back. Potter knew exactly where it was, as was demonstrated by our performances in the plast six months - but it took him two and a half years to find it!
Just based on the one home match, it looks as if Roberto needs to find it too - I hope it doesn't take him two and a half years (and I'm also hoping that I'm wrong, and yesterday was just a bad day at the office that didn't follow the script)!
.......or perhaps it was most of the time when we lost possession it was on the long pass after playing out from the back neatly but for too long so it became too tight and the ball had to be cleared, probably hurriedly.Most of the time when we lost possession it was on the long pass after playing out from the back neatly.
Most of the time when we lost possession it was on the long pass after playing out from the back neatly.
A few good shooting opportunities opened up we just didn’t take them for some reason. RDZ didn’t really have to change anything just keep doing what we were doing, For me we’ve isolated Gross who was in the form of his life.I thought this during the game, but on reflection tottenham just didn't give us any other option. They were defending deep and blocking everything.