Spurs 2 Aston Villa 1 Post match thread.

[Edvard Remberg]

When McGinn and Ramsey didn't play well, it affected the whole team.  Midfield needed beefing up. Nakamba and a 442 should have been done at H/T

[brian green]

Steve Hunt's half time booster used to be half a tumbler of whisky.  Somebody should suggest it to Dean. (for himself not the players).

[Ian.]

I’m not sure what to say about that, except it was just flat, slow and very sloppy throughout the whole team. It was a terrible performance from all.

[brontebilly]

2-1 flattered us today. We were terrible against a very vulnerable Spurs team. Hard to pick out a player that played well, Luiz for me bar the last 5 minutes. Thought Smith had a horror show on the sideline. Obvious that a tactical change was required at half time and the back 3 had to change. But left it til something like the 80th minute and Watkins after scoring ended up on the left wing! Putting Buendia on for Ramsey only weakened our midfield.

Not a fan of the Stoke esque tactics I must say taking an age to take throw ins and leaving our ball players on the bench. Ings/Watkins not working at all as a partnership either. For Spurs, Son was exceptional and destroyed Konsa. Konsa not happy on right of the three. Hause did great against a stationary Ronaldo last week but he isn't suited to what's really a ball playing role.

Martinez 6, Cash 6, Konsa 3, Hause 6, Mings 6, Targett 6, Luiz 7, McGinn 6, Ramsey 5, Ings 4, Watkins 5. Subs - Buendia 5, Traore 4. Smith 4

[rooboy316]

Based on the talk in the build up, we played how I expected them to play. Flat, off the pace and lacking cohesion. Ah well, these games happen. Hope the trajectory continues trending upwards.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

No idea what the tactics were today, assuming we had any, other than to hoof it forward and into touch. We're very Jekyll and Hyde. After the win last weekend I half expected us to get beaten today, the only shock was how poor we were and how easy we made it for a piss poor team like Spurs.

[Footy-Vill]

Son a different class
The space behind the wing backs particularly Cash was found out by Son today.

Thought there were too many long throws and didn't find the 3-5-2 particularly useful today.
That said always in the game today and I think could have taken a point but didn't deserve anything more.

Smith changed it up to 4 at the back but that was ineffective as well in any attacking sense
So frustrating amount of corners and long throws didn't materialise into much.

Martinez 8
Konsa 6
Hause 7
Mings 7
Cash 6.5
Targett  6.5
McGinn 6
Douglas Luiz 6
Ramsey 6
Ings 6
Watkins 6

Mixture really as promising at times but outfield player looked like more than 7 today and really its 6s all round.
I thought Konsa was shown up a few times in defence and actually Hause was very good apart from the own goal scored by Targett where he was beaten .
Konsa , Ramsey and McGinn all had faults in the first goal conceded. With McGinn losing the ball and Ramsey not really running back and Konsa not stepping out to block the shot.

Disappointed to have lost the game but not enough good performances and the system allowed too much opportunity for Son in particular and Lucas to attack.
Good that battled to the end and showed the competition to get back into it and deserved the equaliser unfortunately cimxxwdso quick after and didn't ever get fully on top again.

[SoccerHQ]

The players 2/10.  Mings a special mention.
Dean -3/10.   His slowness to change the train wreck today was criminal. 

Who would you have put on, Buendia and especially Traore were abysmal when we finally changed it imo. Traore keep on running the ball out for throw ins for first 10 minutes he was on.

It's good having some decent players on the bench for once....but they need to actually pick up tempo of game far quicker than those two today.

It was the system today that was the issue. It was clear after about 30 minutes that it just wasnt going to work.

Fair enough but DS was never going to change much after last week's match. He's very much a keep your shirt for next week if you play well manager.

Spurs did exploit weaknesses of our 3atb much better than Man. United did with just simple balls over the top.

Interesting what we do for Wolves game now. Keep same formation and Axel is a cert to come back in for Hause you'd imagine. Buendia will probably come in for a start aswell as Ramsey struggled.

[ez]

Smith had a nightmare. Far too late with the changes again. As someone said we needed someone to take a knock to force him to do something earlier. We've got a bit of strength in depth so let's use it.

[Legion]

That's what irritates me about Smith. His changes are made too late a lot of the time.

[Flin5tone]

Ings and Watkins is not working and neither player is to blame, they both work very hard but it's just not happening and Ings looks frustrated and angry.

Could not pass a ball , midfielders absolutely terrible.  Smith slow to react

Bad Day

[Risso]

That was diabolical. The closeness of the scoreline isn't a true reflection of the game. they should have scored more, we were lucky to get 1.

Scored:

Martinez - 5 - nothing he could do for the goals but distribution was poor.
Konsa - 5 - nice break out for the goal but got done time and time again by Son.
Mings - 4 - terrible, terrible distribution and no discernible leadership today
Hause - 4 - looked like a lower league sub today
Cash - Back to his early season form, his passing today was woeful
Targett - 6 - Brilliant ball for the goal, own goal not really his fault
Ramsey - 3 - reall off game, should have been hooked at half time
McGinn - 4 - load of shite today, gave away the ball that led to the goal, and did the same again second half, with them narrowly missing.
Luiz - 6 - best of the midfield today, but still not really at the races.
Watkins - 5 - two marks for the goal, otherwise a really, really crap display.
Ings - 3 - did the square root of fuck all.

Smith - 4 - as right as he got it last week, got it so, so wrong today. Back to being far too slow to react.

[Proposition Joe]

Very disappointing. That was a win gifted to a Spurs team who should have been there for the taking. We were sloppy and lacked intensity, they outpressed us and were physically stronger, and hoofball was also probably not the best tactic against a Nuno team. I am not sure either that we have tackled Son once since we got back in the PL. He's the new Gullit.

[ChicagoLion]

Another false dawn.

[Risso]

Very disappointing. That was a win gifted to a Spurs team who should have been there for the taking. We were sloppy and lacked intensity, they outpressed us and were physically stronger, and hoofball was also probably not the best tactic against a Nuno team. I am not sure either that we have tackled Son once since we got back in the PL. He's the new Gullit.

Good point about Son. The amount of times we left him totally unmarked today was criminal. All those sparkly new coaches, three central sodding defenders and we still give him the freedom of the pitch.