Spurs v Villa Post Match Thread.

[Astnor]

Our tactics seem to be play the ball into midfield to turn and drive the their defence, Spurs hit the first player, taking the foul and too few bookings.
We were pretty much snuffed out as an attacking force.

Yep.  And yet, we should've had the game won by HT. And yep, that is why the incompetence of the ref was so crucial.  He let Spurs have about 10 free hits before finally booking one of them.

another problem Watkins chance to goal ratio.

You have to accept that he will miss chances I guess.  His all round game is so so good, that as annoying as it is, it's worth it.  Duran is miles off being as good despite some amazing goals the season.  But he had 2 great chances to score today and didn't hit the target.

Anyhow Watkins chance to goal ratio is poor and a problem for us.

[cdbearsfan]

Wednesday was Moscow today was Stoke. Okay I might be overreacting.  But since when did Villa become too important to take cup competitions seriously?  I’m still fcuked off about that.

You are over reacting

Moscow was over 15 years ago ffs

Great now I feel angry about the football and really old. 😟

[eamonn]

Is this the beginning of the unravelling or just a blip?

So many players well below what they were last season. Bailey is struggling and Philogene doesn’t look like he can play at this level. Ramsey isn’t what he was yet pre injury. Mcginn not as effective. I thought pre season about 8th might be our level with champions league distraction and that might be optimistic.

Thought JJ was our best player. Give him the ball to take a player on and he'll win us 30 yards up the pitch and get a shot away (which led to the first corner which led to our goal) or he'll win a free-kick as in the second half. We just didn't feed him enough.

[Demitri_C]

And now we are seeing not strengthening the team the impact. You let two of your most goal scoring attackers in luiz and diaby go yet bring no one to replace them. What did they think was going to happen?

Do you not remember FFP/PSR? We had to sell these players and they both wanted to leave.

Had Diaby stayed he would have got less game time than Morgan and Bailey. Tielemans is giving us as much as Luiz did. Our problems are with how our defensive shape, especially when countered, and our wide players (McGinn, Bailey, Philogene) being out of form.

I think youri performance wise yes but not goal wise he isnt. I think  youri hasnt scored in the league yet. We are missing the goals luiz brings in.

Diaby is a big miss and philogene as not scored any league goals either.

Only one that is helping with the goals is rogers

As for FFP im starting to think we should have cashed in on JJ pure profit that would have sorted us for years and he is becoming very injury prone. 😩 i stress thats a reluctant sale

[RichardBatchelor]

I missed the first half but that was rubbish.

Torres and Carlos, particularly, were terrible. Philogene should be switched to full back. He can’t shoot, pass or dribble and isn’t particularly fast, but he proved against Munich he’s a very good defender.

[eamonn]

No need to overreact.  That was never a 4-1 game.  These score lines don’t mean anything.  We should’ve been 3 up at halftime but because it was only 1-0 it was always up for grabs.   

1-0 slightly flattered us. 3-0? Behave. Equally, 1-4 doesn't tell the story of the game but they clearly were the better team and deserved it. Emery still hasn't swash-buckled successfully against Postecoglu yet.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

If Duran comes on he should've dropped Ollie deeper to play in Morgans position or pushed him wide.

Isn’t that what happened or was supposed to as you could clearly see Duran say to Watkins that we’ll switch when he came on for Rogers?

[AV82EC]

Just having a restorative pint back at Euston. From looking like we’d go on and win it at half time, we just couldn’t live with Spurs press and energy second half and our passing out from the back went to shit. Onwards to Bruges….

[ChicagoLion]

Not great, lack of goals across the team and inability to keep clean sheets.

[SamTheMouse]

We effectively played two games today. One with Rogers and our usual 4-5-1. We drew that game 1-1. Everything was basically fine.

In the other game, Rogers went off, Duran came on, we went 4-4-2, and promptly got humped 3-0.

It's fucking annoying, but no reason to panic because it seems safe to assume Emery won't be doing that shit again.

[malckennedy]

Trying to find consolation, all I can come up with is that we played unusually shit, whereas Spurs ARE fucking shit.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

No need to overreact.  That was never a 4-1 game.  These score lines don’t mean anything.  We should’ve been 3 up at halftime but because it was only 1-0 it was always up for grabs.   

1-0 slightly flattered us. 3-0? Behave. Equally, 1-4 doesn't tell the story of the game but they clearly were the better team and deserved it. Emery still hasn't swash-buckled successfully against Postecoglu yet.

I’d agree, we played better than them first half but created little, they bashed us second half and scored 4. Some of it was self inflicted but the ball in by Son was on a plate and the feeekick was very good, they were clinical.

[eamonn]

Can we at least agree Spurs fans are the biggest cry babies when it's not going their way. All they did was boo until they went ahead. 30% of the crowd are Koreans there taking pictures and videos of Son, the rest just boo hiss like we are pantomime villains.

Meatball said in his post-match interview that it was the loudest he's heard a home crowd (i.e not Villa). He should be slapped for that before Konsa for bantzing with So-lanky.

[Demitri_C]

We effectively played two games today. One with Rogers and our usual 4-5-1. We drew that game 1-1. Everything was basically fine.

In the other game, Rogers went off, Duran came on, we went 4-4-2, and promptly got humped 3-0.

It's fucking annoying, but no reason to panic because it seems safe to assume Emery won't be doing that shit again.

We played 5-3-2 last year  and that was as big as a disaster. Seems like we dont like these different formations as i agree 4-4-2 we struggled.

Need to dump that experiment as well. Its got to be either duran or ollie not both

[malckennedy]

I’m surprised by the view that Rogers going off was a major factor in our loss. I thought he was one of our many players who was unusually shit today.