Match Threads Spurs vs Chelsea - Match Thread

[parj]

We can complain about individual players all day but fact of the matter is JM got this wrong tactically. Persisting with Dier and Sissoko in midfield meant we had no semblance of control in midfield. We were always going to be outplayed in the center of the pitch. Playing hoof ball is only going to work for so long, until we get found out.

This has been coming for a while. It just needed a good technical team to teach us a lesson. It is time for JM to integrate TN and Lo Celso.

I agree with Sissoko and Dier not working. We need ball playing midfielders to help us control the game

 

[For the love of Spurs]

The players are talented. Amongst the most talented in the league. However, their mentality is pure crap and amongst the worst in the league.

Jose needs to get in their heads and bring the top mentality to the surface. If not then we are destined to repeat this shit again and again.

We are the football equivalent of Phil Connors.

disagree, our players are overrated well some of them are.

 

[yiddopaul]

As far as these racist morons go, people sat around them need to grass them up. You all have cameras on your phones. Video it, they will know who sat in which seat. They should be banned from ALL sporting events for life, they should be named and shamed and if it's a criminal offence then they also need to be locked up. Simple.

 

[stevensthfc]

Midfield and RB are garbage.

Must buy in Jan.

 

[werty]

I think the fact that we looked better defensively in the second half with Lucas as a LWB, and he was terrible there, than we did with a back four should tell everyone why we lost the game.

 

[shoggy33]

Honestly that was pathetic. If Jose honestly believes he doesn't need signings he is about to taste genuine failure for the first time because this group is riddled with mediocrity and bad attitude. Not going to list all the players that need replacing cos everyone knows, but our midfield is absolutely embarrassing. We are paying the price of building a squad that contains very few technically good footballers. I blame both Poch and Levy for that. I blame Jose for thinking that Eric Dier is the answer to anything other than the question; who should be first out the door when the transfer window opens?'

 

[Stamford]

I take it you mean the racist idiots.....I thought the true fans were in good voice, especially from kick off

Of course I do

 

[karennina]

making excuses for racism is fucking abject

Not identifying the causes is a recipe for it continuing. No excuses made. Reread the post. You're projecting.

 

[oohaahedgar]

Ffs we made a very average vulnerable Chelsea side look good. We have one of the greatest strikers in world football. How can it be right that he gets fuck all device?
as far as the racist chanting, the irony hurts more than anything .
They need a good slap from us as soon as anyone does that. It’s a complete fuck off us the fans ( we are the club) and everyone connected to the club.
What a shit day, I’ve got my annual Xmas visit to the cinema with the kids. Got to go a see Scrooged ffs, couldn’t make this shit up.
merry Christmas

 

[tony0379]

United made Mourinho grey
We are going to make him bald

 

[wrd]

i'm actually speechless about how bad that was. Make no mistake, that was as bad as anything I've seen in the last twenty years. Even against Bayern Munich when we got spanked we played far better than that.

Chelsea hardly had to play above a 7 out of 10 to completely dominate us.

Kane ambled around like he didn't give a fuck.

Having a right side of Aurier Sissoko and Moura is just fucked.

We spent over 100 million on two ball playing technical players yet it's now at Xmas and those players are benched whilst we play eric fucking dier and sissoko.

Jesus wept.

To be honest we spawned the win against Wolves, we were totally outplayed.

Until Mourinho wises up and realises that unless he drops the shit players and starts signing or picking better ones, we are going to see much more than that.

Sissoko has improved but let's not forget he was a calamity player until 18 months ago, and Dier is just utterly dire, yet they are now are starting central midfielders. Deary me.

And people genuinely think we have enough quality in the squad and don't need an overhaul. I'd love to know what the worse could be that'd happen if we played Ndombele/Lo Celso. It can't get worse than that.

 

[Hoddle&Waddle]

I hope they caught the racist or racists. I'm fucking fuming they've done that to our Club.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

I think he seems like a fucking arsehole if I’m honest.

I don’t consider myself left wing. But if your first thought when a human being racially abuses a black footballer in public in 2019 is ‘this is the fault of the left for stoking racial tensions’ then you are either deranged, or you’re a racist. Or probably both.

 

[daveduvet]

Dark day for football. Tragic. Disgusting. I dont care about the performance and how disgraceful it was. I cannot believe in 2019, the first stadium announcements against racism took place at our stadium. That is embarrassing.

Desperation brings out the true colours of folk. Disgraceful, disappointing and not wholly surprised... base level intelligence... I recall standing in the Shelf over the years and hearing chants at opposing teams whilst we had black players in our eleven - even as a 13 year old I couldn’t fathom that logic; same as today

 

[Marty]

Speak your mind.

Brexit Britain strikes again, isn't it. It's horrible to see how people who harbour racist thoughts have been emboldened by the rhetoric of the referendum, this happened so rarely pre-2016 and so frequently the last two years it cannot be a coincidence. The country is more divided than ever before and the political class of the country is to blame for letting it get this way.

 

[Ronwol196061]

Ndombele was the only footballer out there today. Yes its easier to blame our worse players but Son,Moura,Dele and Kane,our stars, did nothing or in some cases even less.
Sissoko probably completed more percentage of passes that all of them four together.

 

[Dr Know]

Anthony Taylor needs to brush up on FIFA's rules. The game should have been stopped and the players sent to the dressing room after the first announcement failed to do anything.

Lol, as far as I know (we’ll from commentary) there was only one incident (racism) do you mean the stuff being thrown at their keeper too?

 

[Martinhotspur]

Bullshit. I didn't positively specify a cause. No one even knows these people's names yet let alone their history. I suggested that the left's - real - hyping of race conflict might be a cause, which it very well might - a subject for further inquiry. I don't see what your problem is beyond reading a definitiveness into my post which wasn't there.

Why bring it up

 

[karennina]

F*** you, you f***ing ostrich

Discount a plausible cause and you create the possibility for the behaviour continuing - you're ostriching here.

 

[ardiles]

At least we didn’t concede any more goals after Son’s red card. (Silently goes back scraping the barrel for any more positives from this game )