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Your Man of the Match

  • Lloris

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Aurier

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Dier

    Votes: 4 2.9%
  • Sanchez

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Davies

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Sissoko

    Votes: 6 4.3%
  • Lo Celso

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Lucas

    Votes: 4 2.9%
  • Bergwijn

    Votes: 7 5.1%
  • Son

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Kane

    Votes: 11 8.0%
  • Lamela

    Votes: 7 5.1%
  • Ndombele

    Votes: 3 2.2%
  • Verts

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 2 1.4%
  • None deserved

    Votes: 89 64.5%

  • Total voters
    138

Bulletspur

The Reasonable Advocate
Match Thread Admin
Oct 17, 2006
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LOL at those of you who were predicting an emphatic win for us.

We can kiss Europe goodbye for next season

No one deserves MOTM

Nothing else to say
 

wiggo24

Well-Known Member
Jan 5, 2013
5,091
36,808
Lo Celsos worst game yet but can't really blame him.

Sissoko utterly tragic anywhere near their half.

Dier and Sanchez incredibly poor tracking. Not letting the cf get in front of you is defending 101 ffs and they let it happen three times.

Aurier and Davies lazy for their goals.

Continued reliance on Lucas is just bizarre. How he was still on the pitch is beyond me.

Pretty worrying that we showed so little fight after the VAR decision went against us.
 

Original # 10

Well-Known Member
Aug 13, 2008
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1,609
I actually think we did ok first half. Var was horrible. Second half though my word. God awful.
 

parj

NDombelly ate all the pies
Jul 27, 2003
3,586
5,861
No idea if it was tactics or players that were the issue. That was just shit. There just seemed to be no interest or passion in the team.

Good - nobody
decent - Kane, Lamela, NDombele (he actually passed with purpose)
Meh - GLC, Lucas, Son, Bergwijn
Shit - Dier, Sanchez, Davies, Aurier, Alli, Verts
 

Marty

Audere est farce
Mar 10, 2005
39,887
62,566
Well, twice that should've counted
I'd argue the "push" is absolutely bollocks as well and the offside is the only one that's unquestionable. But I know "pushes" like that are blown up 10/10 times even if there's nothing in it.

As for the poll, it's the clearest none deserved all season.
 

thecook

Well-Known Member
Jan 17, 2009
5,576
10,966
I thought Ndombele might get an ironic win here, but none are deserved for sure
 

yusrisafri

Well-Known Member
Jun 27, 2004
6,369
7,548
That 2nd goal epitomised the utter nonsense of our game.

That clumsy looking midfielder of theirs was allowed to twist and turn in slow motion in the middle of the park without any real attempt by us to take the ball from him. He then easily found a teammate on the left flank, then passed to another teammate who Sissoko had decided he didnt want to chase anymore. This player then tried his luck in crossing low into the box, then Dier and Sachez did their best attempt at bird-watching.

Utter bollox. Sheer stupidity
 

mpickard2087

Patient Zero
Jun 13, 2008
21,886
32,513
Goal one we had no midfield when the ball came in from the left, then no midfield when the ball was cut back from the right, you'll concede in top level football with such a lapse and collapse of structure.

Goal two Moura plain couldn't be fucked to even attempt to run back with his man. Sissoko then couldn't be fucked to track his man. Then Aurier switched off and lost his man running through. These three were the main culprits - Dier and Davies could probably do better but by then it's at point blank range and they're stuck in their six yard box with nowhere to go.

Goal three we have two players unable to stop/cut out a pass on the touchline, Son's defensive efforts are flimsy in the extreme, and then Sanchez cant get beaten to the ball first.

There was a stinky attitude across the pitch, the soft goals conceded were just part of it. With the ball we were laboured and ponderous, we had zero idea, how to make space or construct moves or how to try and probe them, and created basically zero chances.

The VAR bullshit was in the end a brief moment. Before it we played with a shit attitude and intensity, after it we certainly did. We only have ourselves to blame.
 

pangtong

Well-Known Member
Oct 19, 2006
213
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Ndombele with the only pass the entire match that cut through the SHU defence. Shame Kane was offside for it.

Everyone else too afraid to try a risky pass and play it safe sideways/backwards.
 

sparx100

Well-Known Member
Jan 8, 2007
4,612
6,646
Son was anonymous.
Moura was bumbly.
Bergwijn was harshly hauled off when Son and Moura were worse.
Kane was starved of service but his touch was shit.
Aurier and Davies are incapable of creating any decent chances.
Lo Celso had his quietest game.
Sissoko was Sissoko.
Dier was imperious in the air but him and Sanchez were exposed for all 3 goals.
I don't think Lloris did anything wrong.

Lamela holds onto the ball too long
Alli added nothing
Vertonghen was a pointless substitute.
N'Dombele made our most incisive pass to Kane (albeit offside) but looks like the only player who can actually thread a pass through the lines.

There is something horribly wrong. I am not sure where but a lack of quality investment has hurt us and a slow, side to side possessive football tactic coupled with lack of invention and creativity is stifling.
 

yusrisafri

Well-Known Member
Jun 27, 2004
6,369
7,548
Jose will convince the world that we lost because of the VAR, and conveniently avoiding any talk of the utter incompetence of the team and himself.
 

kaz Hirai

Well-Known Member
Nov 5, 2008
17,692
25,340
err ndombele maybe for some fancy step overs and nice through ball or lamela for assisting the assistance with a good ball to son

I don't know it was all pretty poor as it's been all season
 
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