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  1. ljinko888

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    Counterpoint: When managers like Dyche and over the years Allardyce, Moyes and Pulis take over teams in trouble at the bottom the most noticeable thing that happens is they handle set pieces well. Because they know their players aren't good enough to get playing expansive open play football so...
  2. ljinko888

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    If he's not going to get the coaches to sort out the set piece defending then we better hope the striker we buy in the summer is 6ft and can head a ball well. We took for granted how good Kane was at clearing corners at the front post. Drogba for Chelsea was excellent at that too.
  3. ljinko888

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    We've blown Top 4 and the 5th spot is irrelevant now. I expected the season to pan out in reverse where we may have suffered some brutal days early on but by now be in better sync to close the season well. Ange has one big obvious problem to solve. Set pieces. It doesn't matter how pretty his...
  4. ljinko888

    Match Threads Spurs vs Arsenal

    He had to go down immediately. Staggering forwards to try get the ball gives the implication there was not much force or it was just an accidental coming together. This is why players make a meal of challenges though so we can't have it both ways.
  5. ljinko888

    Match Threads Spurs vs Arsenal

    Maddison has been the worst attacking player and he has not been at it since coming back from injury. Slipping too much and turning into opponents rather than the early season player who was gliding forwards. Defensively we are disgraceful from corners. We took for granted how good Harry Kane...
  6. ljinko888

    FA Cup 2023/24

    Palmer is a throwback creative player. Not especially quick or with a box of tricks but simply excellent in stepping away from an opponent.
  7. ljinko888

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I don't think it is at all coinicidental our form especially on the road has turned to crap with an out of form Bissouma being asked to control the entire space between the edge of our box and the halfway line on his own. Our front three can't hold the ball up to save their life. It's not their...
  8. ljinko888

    Match Threads Spurs vs Forest

    We're making a bad habit of losing control in the first half of matches after wasting promising chances before. But once again the shift in the second half was good. Start of the season we were putting in great performances from start to finish. That's died away as the season has gone on but...
  9. ljinko888

    2023/24 - The Race For..................

    Even more so considering we play Liverpool, City and Arsenal in the next few weeks. Could have been a title race in which the fate was in our hands.
  10. ljinko888

    Match Threads Fulham vs Spurs

    I think next season we have to figure out a way to balance the midfield. Not just in personnel but they can't all expect to be the playmaker. If we're hit and miss with one game a week then we're going to be in real trouble with European football.
  11. ljinko888

    Premier League 2023/2024

    The goalkeepers for Sheffield United and Burnley are two of the worst I've seen at this level. They look so out of their depth. Luton's keeper has saved them points and that's worth its weight in gold.
  12. ljinko888

    Player Watch Player Watch: Timo Werner

    Hopefully that goal will give him new confidence now he is off the mark. He plays well in build up play with his runs that the other players don't utilise enough. The glaring issue is he is not natural in front of goal and it looks like to be in the mind. There's no other player in the world I'd...
  13. ljinko888

    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    I disagree with that. Not saying you're doing this but I find it a bit patronising the common train of thought to say we have to get into the Europa or even now Conference League to develop our youngsters otherwise it can't happen. Firstly because it ends up in a Catch-22 situation since in the...
  14. ljinko888

    EFL Carabao Cup 2023/2024

    Poch is done. That's a Liverpool team you see in the 3rd round of this competition not the final.
  15. ljinko888

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I would prefer that. Way I see it though is Bissouma's form has dropped off since the Luton red card so you can drop him, put Dragusin in a back three and Porro and Udogie inverting doesn't leave us with less numbers in midfield. If Ange won't stop the inverting with Davies and Emerson filling...
  16. ljinko888

    Premier League 2023/2024

    Deserved lead. City have been off the pace. But I expect them to wake up now.
  17. ljinko888

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I didn't expect to talk about 3 at the back again so soon but maybe given he plays so high and pushing players forward we need that extra body instead of being 2-3-5 on the break. Opposite to Conte who played that formation with a low block and players behind the ball.
  18. ljinko888

    Match Threads Spurs vs Wolves

    This is correct. The way to make a difference without changing the system is to have an excellent 1v1 dribbler on the wing and constantly get the ball out to him to run. That will force the opposition to double mark him and take someone out of the middle. Instead most of our play goes to Kulu...
  19. ljinko888

    Manager Watch: Ange Postecoglou

    I think Wolves have showed the limitations of his system right now. We lack control of the middle of the park as it is too congested which suits teams sitting deep. There are loads of teams that play with a low block but what makes Wolves different is they actually have the attacking players who...
  20. ljinko888

    2023/24 - The Race For..................

    I think we will get top four without a doubt. We've only got the league to play for heading into the backend of the season and the injured players are coming back to fitness now. We did very well to cope with the amount of key players out over the winter and that included mid-week fixtures in...
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