- Jan 16, 2006
- 31,252
- 19,541
Wonder if danny rose is googling Ben Davies
Think Ben Davies will be googling Danny Rose soon!
Wonder if danny rose is googling Ben Davies
Did they even have a shot on target In the second half, defensively second half was very good though.
Alli - I'm sure those with a pro Alli "agenda" (as opinions arcontrolled the ball, fell to the ground exasperatingly expected the ref to give him a free kick for being a clumsy ****, and I expect him to get a ban for the embarrassing leg he prodded towards their keeper instead of just having a better touch and trying to score. The boy needs a fucking good kick up the arse.
And he got a Yellow.He can't get banned because he didn't get the penalty
Vamos is Spanish for 'come on'.All hail the Dink
Ok, lets start with the team selection. It was a relief to see Winks thrown in, maybe done with the idea that Huddersfield like to press and having a CM out there who is more comfortable playing under the press would be a good idea, or maybe it was just pure merit based on the options available. But notable is that not only was Winks picked ahead of Sissoko, he was also trusted in a reversion to the CM2 system. Really disappointing to see Alli out there again. The kid needs a break, two or three games to gaze at his naval. Not because I think we necessarily have a permanent, more viable alternative, but because I want to see this kid improve, add consistency of performance, better decision making and game play to his game. Become an all round better package. We get told a lot that Poch is a meritocratic coach, but Alli is not in that side on merit right now.
We also switched from 3331 back to 3421 today. I would like to think that it was because Poch had done his homework and knew that Huddersfield like to press and play a higher line than most bus parkers we play, and switching back to the 2 ACM system, we might just be able to capitalise if we can break the press and get Eriksen, Alli and Kane on the ball against isolated defenders.
If this was the plan then it worked a treat. Huddersfield actually started brightly, full of the chutzpah of a newly promoted team, yet to be put in their place, all good intentions and belief, that lasted 9 minutes, then followed a 15 minute blitz that thoroughly demoralised that early hubris. The first goal owed a lot to the quick thinking and intelligence of Trippier, who didn't just head a ball clear, he saw Kane isolated and headed the ball straight to him. The rest was all pure Kane. Still with plenty to do, Kane showed strength and guile to hold off his man, spun him, sprinted away from him with the ball and then slotted the ball away with precision, the narrow side of the keeper (the clever choice).
The next goal was possibly the best we've scored this season, and was again a result of dismantling their press and ending up, after a beautifully slick one touch exchange in midfield by Alderweireld, Trippier, Dier, Alli with Eriksen isolated up against their defender. Ironically, our most technically gifted player was the only one who let the move down, fumbling, but fortune favoured the fumble and the slick move was completed by their defender and my favourite goal of the day was beautifully dinked in by the excellent Davies. There are few finishes I like more than the dink finish, it's the hardest finish in football, and many a world class striker can't do it. It's easy to put your foot through ball and pray, but a dink requires intelligence to see, courage to attempt and a deft touch to deliver. Luckily Davies managed that triumvirate of disciplines to succeed. It was a fitting end to what had been a beautiful passage of football.
And this is one of the reason's to be in love with Pochettino. Not just because we scored a goal like this. Three years ago Walker and Rose were considered varying degrees of deeply flawed. Three years later their reputations appear to have been given intravenous boost of EPO. A year ago, Tripper and Davies were considered not even good enough to be back up by many (in Davies' case me included) but are now looking better than Walker and Rose. This is one of the things Pochettino does. He invariably improves players, gets the best out of them, makes them better players than they were. Davies now has as many assists and goals in the first 529 minutes of this season that Rose achieved in 1530 minutes in the (nearly) all conquering team of last season. Trippier was very unlucky not to add to his tally today.
Trippier and Davies were both excellent today, of the 9 key passes we made, they made 5 between them. Davies has ended up with a classy goal and a classy assist. And his improvement this season has been exceptional. I really didn't rate this fella much, especially going forward, but this season he's clearly been coached by Poch, and has taken it on board and applied it. It's almost like we've signed a new player. Trippier as well, was getting lots of stick after the Chelsea and Burnley games, despite just coming back from injury and not really being that bad. He's been excellent in the last two games, playing a big part in both wins (Apoel and Huddersfield). They both have minor defensive issues for me (but Walker and Rose weren't perfect either), but if Davies can keep up this attacking improvement, Rose can fuck off to the land whippets and nutty slack as soon as he likes.
The Dier/Winks combo was decent, so much better with a more metronomic player in there who could move the ball with a bit of vim, and I really don't think it's a coincidence that Dier looked more comfortable today than he has on other CM2 games, with a metronomic partner to carry more of the football load. Winks made more passes than any one ahead of the defenders, 64 at 87.5%, Dier 45 at 75.6%.
I didn't think the second half performance was terrible, but those criticising it shouldn't be berated, because judging by Pochettino's reaction on the sidelines, he agreed with them, and was clearly seen with vexed expression and heard bellowing his weirding word - VAMOOOSH - at one stage. And we all have seen what's happened so far this season, late points pissed away by sloppy mentality in two or three games.
Individual
Lloris - Decent game
Trippier - Very good game. Solid enough defensively, but brought some quality to our attacking play at times too, played a couple of lovely balls in tight circumstances.
TA - Good.
Sanchez - Another couple of very iffy moments but generally OK.
JV - Silk.
Davies I'm going to have to give him a MOTM again. Up and down, a great goal, a great assist, best performance in a Spurs shirt and better than any that Rose has put in offensively.
Dier - Decent game.
Winks - Very good game for a league start. In a CM2 he needs to be a bit more positionally aware at times, without the ball and I think he could press a little better at times, but nice to have a metronomic player out there and against today's opponents it was exactly what was needed.
Eriksen - I though he looked a bit below par today. Wasted a couple of excellent situations.
Alli - I'm sure those with a pro Alli "agenda" (as opinions are now apparently called on here) will post to his involvement in a couple of the goals today as reason to swallow an inordinate amount of sloppy and stupid bollocks. Well, not me. What he did for those goals was what I want any player doing in this team. And what he did for much of the rest of the time was what I don't want any player doing. The nadir was him committing the ultimate of bumble sins, the dummy when no-one is behind you or has called for the dummy. This followed several occasions where he miscontrolled the ball, fell to the ground exasperatingly expected the ref to give him a free kick for being a clumsy ****, and I expect him to get a ban for the embarrassing leg he prodded towards their keeper instead of just having a better touch and trying to score. The boy needs a fucking good kick up the arse.
Eriksen - definitely a bit off colour today. Not awful, but not on it.
Kane - What can you say about this kid. He drives you nuts when he has a simple choice of passes and instead tries to dribble or shoot from the tightest of angles, but then produces the sublime, worked hard today too.
Even after a game like today's where our little Dane wasn't either the best/second best player in our team for once, Beece still loves Eriksen enough to rate him twice. Classic.Eriksen - I though he looked a bit below par today. Wasted a couple of excellent situations.
Eriksen - definitely a bit off colour today. Not awful, but not on it.
It's actually Spanish for 'we go' but is used in the same way that we use 'come on'.Vamos is Spanish for 'come on'.
All hail the Dink
Ok, lets start with the team selection. It was a relief to see Winks thrown in, maybe done with the idea that Huddersfield like to press and having a CM out there who is more comfortable playing under the press would be a good idea, or maybe it was just pure merit based on the options available. But notable is that not only was Winks picked ahead of Sissoko, he was also trusted in a reversion to the CM2 system. Really disappointing to see Alli out there again. The kid needs a break, two or three games to gaze at his naval. Not because I think we necessarily have a permanent, more viable alternative, but because I want to see this kid improve, add consistency of performance, better decision making and game play to his game. Become an all round better package. We get told a lot that Poch is a meritocratic coach, but Alli is not in that side on merit right now.
We also switched from 3331 back to 3421 today. I would like to think that it was because Poch had done his homework and knew that Huddersfield like to press and play a higher line than most bus parkers we play, and switching back to the 2 ACM system, we might just be able to capitalise if we can break the press and get Eriksen, Alli and Kane on the ball against isolated defenders.
If this was the plan then it worked a treat. Huddersfield actually started brightly, full of the chutzpah of a newly promoted team, yet to be put in their place, all good intentions and belief, that lasted 9 minutes, then followed a 15 minute blitz that thoroughly demoralised that early hubris. The first goal owed a lot to the quick thinking and intelligence of Trippier, who didn't just head a ball clear, he saw Kane isolated and headed the ball straight to him. The rest was all pure Kane. Still with plenty to do, Kane showed strength and guile to hold off his man, spun him, sprinted away from him with the ball and then slotted the ball away with precision, the narrow side of the keeper (the clever choice).
The next goal was possibly the best we've scored this season, and was again a result of dismantling their press and ending up, after a beautifully slick one touch exchange in midfield by Alderweireld, Trippier, Dier, Alli with Eriksen isolated up against their defender. Ironically, our most technically gifted player was the only one who let the move down, fumbling, but fortune favoured the fumble and the slick move was completed by their defender and my favourite goal of the day was beautifully dinked in by the excellent Davies. There are few finishes I like more than the dink finish, it's the hardest finish in football, and many a world class striker can't do it. It's easy to put your foot through ball and pray, but a dink requires intelligence to see, courage to attempt and a deft touch to deliver. Luckily Davies managed that triumvirate of disciplines to succeed. It was a fitting end to what had been a beautiful passage of football.
And this is one of the reason's to be in love with Pochettino. Not just because we scored a goal like this. Three years ago Walker and Rose were considered varying degrees of deeply flawed. Three years later their reputations appear to have been given intravenous boost of EPO. A year ago, Tripper and Davies were considered not even good enough to be back up by many (in Davies' case me included) but are now looking better than Walker and Rose. This is one of the things Pochettino does. He invariably improves players, gets the best out of them, makes them better players than they were. Davies now has as many assists and goals in the first 529 minutes of this season that Rose achieved in 1530 minutes in the (nearly) all conquering team of last season. Trippier was very unlucky not to add to his tally today.
Trippier and Davies were both excellent today, of the 9 key passes we made, they made 5 between them. Davies has ended up with a classy goal and a classy assist. And his improvement this season has been exceptional. I really didn't rate this fella much, especially going forward, but this season he's clearly been coached by Poch, and has taken it on board and applied it. It's almost like we've signed a new player. Trippier as well, was getting lots of stick after the Chelsea and Burnley games, despite just coming back from injury and not really being that bad. He's been excellent in the last two games, playing a big part in both wins (Apoel and Huddersfield). They both have minor defensive issues for me (but Walker and Rose weren't perfect either), but if Davies can keep up this attacking improvement, Rose can fuck off to the land whippets and nutty slack as soon as he likes.
The Dier/Winks combo was decent, so much better with a more metronomic player in there who could move the ball with a bit of vim, and I really don't think it's a coincidence that Dier looked more comfortable today than he has on other CM2 games, with a metronomic partner to carry more of the football load. Winks made more passes than any one ahead of the defenders, 64 at 87.5%, Dier 45 at 75.6%.
I didn't think the second half performance was terrible, but those criticising it shouldn't be berated, because judging by Pochettino's reaction on the sidelines, he agreed with them, and was clearly seen with vexed expression and heard bellowing his weirding word - VAMOOOSH - at one stage. And we all have seen what's happened so far this season, late points pissed away by sloppy mentality in two or three games.
Individual
Lloris - Decent game
Trippier - Very good game. Solid enough defensively, but brought some quality to our attacking play at times too, played a couple of lovely balls in tight circumstances.
TA - Good.
Sanchez - Another couple of very iffy moments but generally OK.
JV - Silk.
Davies I'm going to have to give him a MOTM again. Up and down, a great goal, a great assist, best performance in a Spurs shirt and better than any that Rose has put in offensively.
Dier - Decent game.
Winks - Very good game for a league start. In a CM2 he needs to be a bit more positionally aware at times, without the ball and I think he could press a little better at times, but nice to have a metronomic player out there and against today's opponents it was exactly what was needed.
Alli - I'm sure those with a pro Alli "agenda" (as opinions are now apparently called on here) will post to his involvement in a couple of the goals today as reason to swallow an inordinate amount of sloppy and stupid bollocks. Well, not me. What he did for those goals was what I want any player doing in this team. And what he did for much of the rest of the time was what I don't want any player doing. The nadir was him committing the ultimate of bumble sins, the dummy when no-one is behind you or has called for the dummy. This followed several occasions where he miscontrolled the ball, fell to the ground exasperatingly expected the ref to give him a free kick for being a clumsy ****, and I expect him to get a ban for the embarrassing leg he prodded towards their keeper instead of just having a better touch and trying to score. The boy needs a fucking good kick up the arse.
Eriksen - definitely a bit off colour today. Not awful, but not on it. Wasted a couple of good situations.
Kane - What can you say about this kid. He drives you nuts when he has a simple choice of passes and instead tries to dribble or shoot from the tightest of angles, but then produces the sublime, worked hard today too.
All hail the Dink
Ok, lets start with the team selection. It was a relief to see Winks thrown in, maybe done with the idea that Huddersfield like to press and having a CM out there who is more comfortable playing under the press would be a good idea, or maybe it was just pure merit based on the options available. But notable is that not only was Winks picked ahead of Sissoko, he was also trusted in a reversion to the CM2 system. Really disappointing to see Alli out there again. The kid needs a break, two or three games to gaze at his naval. Not because I think we necessarily have a permanent, more viable alternative, but because I want to see this kid improve, add consistency of performance, better decision making and game play to his game. Become an all round better package. We get told a lot that Poch is a meritocratic coach, but Alli is not in that side on merit right now.
We also switched from 3331 back to 3421 today. I would like to think that it was because Poch had done his homework and knew that Huddersfield like to press and play a higher line than most bus parkers we play, and switching back to the 2 ACM system, we might just be able to capitalise if we can break the press and get Eriksen, Alli and Kane on the ball against isolated defenders.
If this was the plan then it worked a treat. Huddersfield actually started brightly, full of the chutzpah of a newly promoted team, yet to be put in their place, all good intentions and belief, that lasted 9 minutes, then followed a 15 minute blitz that thoroughly demoralised that early hubris. The first goal owed a lot to the quick thinking and intelligence of Trippier, who didn't just head a ball clear, he saw Kane isolated and headed the ball straight to him. The rest was all pure Kane. Still with plenty to do, Kane showed strength and guile to hold off his man, spun him, sprinted away from him with the ball and then slotted the ball away with precision, the narrow side of the keeper (the clever choice).
The next goal was possibly the best we've scored this season, and was again a result of dismantling their press and ending up, after a beautifully slick one touch exchange in midfield by Alderweireld, Trippier, Dier, Alli with Eriksen isolated up against their defender. Ironically, our most technically gifted player was the only one who let the move down, fumbling, but fortune favoured the fumble and the slick move was completed by their defender and my favourite goal of the day was beautifully dinked in by the excellent Davies. There are few finishes I like more than the dink finish, it's the hardest finish in football, and many a world class striker can't do it. It's easy to put your foot through ball and pray, but a dink requires intelligence to see, courage to attempt and a deft touch to deliver. Luckily Davies managed that triumvirate of disciplines to succeed. It was a fitting end to what had been a beautiful passage of football.
And this is one of the reason's to be in love with Pochettino. Not just because we scored a goal like this. Three years ago Walker and Rose were considered varying degrees of deeply flawed. Three years later their reputations appear to have been given intravenous boost of EPO. A year ago, Tripper and Davies were considered not even good enough to be back up by many (in Davies' case me included) but are now looking better than Walker and Rose. This is one of the things Pochettino does. He invariably improves players, gets the best out of them, makes them better players than they were. Davies now has as many assists and goals in the first 529 minutes of this season that Rose achieved in 1530 minutes in the (nearly) all conquering team of last season. Trippier was very unlucky not to add to his tally today.
Trippier and Davies were both excellent today, of the 9 key passes we made, they made 5 between them. Davies has ended up with a classy goal and a classy assist. And his improvement this season has been exceptional. I really didn't rate this fella much, especially going forward, but this season he's clearly been coached by Poch, and has taken it on board and applied it. It's almost like we've signed a new player. Trippier as well, was getting lots of stick after the Chelsea and Burnley games, despite just coming back from injury and not really being that bad. He's been excellent in the last two games, playing a big part in both wins (Apoel and Huddersfield). They both have minor defensive issues for me (but Walker and Rose weren't perfect either), but if Davies can keep up this attacking improvement, Rose can fuck off to the land whippets and nutty slack as soon as he likes.
The Dier/Winks combo was decent, so much better with a more metronomic player in there who could move the ball with a bit of vim, and I really don't think it's a coincidence that Dier looked more comfortable today than he has on other CM2 games, with a metronomic partner to carry more of the football load. Winks made more passes than any one ahead of the defenders, 64 at 87.5%, Dier 45 at 75.6%.
I didn't think the second half performance was terrible, but those criticising it shouldn't be berated, because judging by Pochettino's reaction on the sidelines, he agreed with them, and was clearly seen with vexed expression and heard bellowing his weirding word - VAMOOOSH - at one stage. And we all have seen what's happened so far this season, late points pissed away by sloppy mentality in two or three games.
Individual
Lloris - Decent game
Trippier - Very good game. Solid enough defensively, but brought some quality to our attacking play at times too, played a couple of lovely balls in tight circumstances.
TA - Good.
Sanchez - Another couple of very iffy moments but generally OK.
JV - Silk.
Davies I'm going to have to give him a MOTM again. Up and down, a great goal, a great assist, best performance in a Spurs shirt and better than any that Rose has put in offensively.
Dier - Decent game.
Winks - Very good game for a league start. In a CM2 he needs to be a bit more positionally aware at times, without the ball and I think he could press a little better at times, but nice to have a metronomic player out there and against today's opponents it was exactly what was needed.
Alli - I'm sure those with a pro Alli "agenda" (as opinions are now apparently called on here) will post to his involvement in a couple of the goals today as reason to swallow an inordinate amount of sloppy and stupid bollocks. Well, not me. What he did for those goals was what I want any player doing in this team. And what he did for much of the rest of the time was what I don't want any player doing. The nadir was him committing the ultimate of bumble sins, the dummy when no-one is behind you or has called for the dummy. This followed several occasions where he miscontrolled the ball, fell to the ground exasperatingly expected the ref to give him a free kick for being a clumsy ****, and I expect him to get a ban for the embarrassing leg he prodded towards their keeper instead of just having a better touch and trying to score. The boy needs a fucking good kick up the arse.
Eriksen - definitely a bit off colour today. Not awful, but not on it. Wasted a couple of good situations.
Kane - What can you say about this kid. He drives you nuts when he has a simple choice of passes and instead tries to dribble or shoot from the tightest of angles, but then produces the sublime, worked hard today too.
Gave the ball the eyes and it went the wrong way lol.I thought Sissoko gave their keeper the eyes and sent him the wrong way!!!