Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Available Sunday evening.

[mattjpa]

So when is it time to worry?....

[Holtenderinthesky]

So when is it time to worry?....

If we get less than 3 points from the next two games given who we are playing.

[villa `cross the mersey]

We are shit and we are getting shitter

[silhillvilla]

Missed our chances when they came at 0-0 & paid the price.
Will be interested to see if Bent goes vocal again.

[Risso]

We are shit and we are getting shitter

Yup.

[eamonn]

Hold of on the wrist-slitting. Games are turned on the slightest of things. Benteke scores and we're looking good for at least a point.

A bit more composure and luck at Fulham next time hopefully. We need a win or two from Fulham/Norwich/Sunderland though before our horrible run of games in November.

[damon loves JT]

We will be under genuine pressure within a fortnight unless we win a game. A win changes everything but we really need one.

[Irish villain]

Can't see us not being involved in a relegations crap.

I think we probably will stay up this season and we have turned the corner but it will take time for the (self inflicted) damage of the past few years to wear off.

[JJ-AV]

Decent until the goal went in.

We should have scored, Benteke missed two good chances.

The subs from Lambert were terrible. Benteke should have gone off. We conceded the second and had no shape or balance at all.

[Richard Richard]

I'm not going to shit my pants over that, I expected them to beat us and up until they scored the fluke goal we were the better team, midfield is a bit of a worry though.

[N'Zimidy]

Spurs just have better players than ours all over the park. We had chances, didn't take them, they had more chances and took some of them.

Both teams played at a 6/10 level but they have more quality and so rightly won. We need some points over the next couple of games badly.

[Rigadon]

Score those 2 chances and we'd have been talking about a very good performance.  We missed them, Spurs scored a lucky goal stright after and a soft one after that and because we were chasing the game we made them look much better than they actually are. 

As for the game thread, there was a fair amount of arguing among fans today.  I think people are getting worried we might be in the shit.  I'm not particularly. 

Cast your minds back about 12 months to that game last season.  THAT was shit.  What we just saw was another slightly naive, slightly toothless Villa side full of inexperience.

Bent did next to fuck all when he came on.  Nothing.  And that's the thing with him.  He probably would've scored one of the chances Benteke fluffed (the second one in particular was really poor) but he adds next to nothing else.  It's a real conundrum for the manager, especially when Bent is openly questioning him in the press. 

Anyway, losing to them is about as welcome as gout, but let's not go overboard with the doom and gloom.

[PaulWinch again]

Right well the decision not to pick Bent was a mistake, the chances missed by Benteke were absolute sitters. I'm not writing Benteke off, but Bent is a proven scorer and had scored in last two league games and should have played. I'm not panicking but one worry is that when we are behind the changes Lambert makes seem to empty the midfield completely and isolate the strikers and they haven't been remotely successful. We need to start getting some wins.

[Holtenderinthesky]

We will be under genuine pressure within a fortnight unless we win a game. A win changes everything but we really need one.

I dont think we play for a fortnight, but I agree with your point.  If we dont get anything at Fulham the table will not be pretty.