Spurs v Villa Post Match Thread.

[ez]

I don't like Spurs!

Me neither. It's imperative we beat them in the return fixture.

[RamboandBruno]

Maatsen seems like a younger version of the type of attacking left back Moreno is. Digne is not going to be first choice for ever, it really doesn’t seem that complicated to me, maybe I’m missing something?

I think You are missing the fact that we have Konsa deputising as a Right Back because of Cash,s limitations when we had 2 perfectly decent left backs.
We used a lot of our PSR allowance on the LB position which was not an essential, the RB situation was and remains so.

No I don’t think so. As we know Unai likes a lopsided defence and doesn’t really want his RB attacking. I think he likes Konsa there, I dont think he plays him there out of necessity. I think the whole need for a new RB is an endless debate that circulates in these ere parts, but is largely irrelevant to him wanting a younger version of Moreno.

[brontebilly]

Porro was booked in the second half and Ramsey didn't see much of the ball once Spurs equalised.

He had one run but kind of passed it inside to nobody in the box. Smith on co-comm made the point that was the time to take on Porro and commit him to a risky challenge.

[PeterWithe]

Seemed to me both teams played that 'high risk, high reward' game, they committed lots of players to the press and we try and play  through it, and if we do there are chances for us, but in the second half, we didn't. We made mistakes, they make the chances, we take a gubbing.

For all the progress we do still seem to have a result like that in us, and it always seems to be against Spurs.

[Demitri_C]

Cant stand spurs. For me its likw losing to blose

[JUAN PABLO]

15 goals conceded, 2 more than Palace in 17th place, tells you where the problem is. Luiz scored 22 goals in 5 seasons, his highest tally last year when he was the penalty taker. Diaby scored 6 goals. Decent players but not golden boot contenders. Rogers will out score Diaby comfortably. Get organised at the back and we'll be OK.

100% agree about your point about where the problem lies. Defence for sure. Its scandalous how many we have conceded already this season

What i found worrying was how little pressure we put on spurs back four. I mean it was shitty ben davies and dragustin at cb

How are we struggling to put pressure on them?

Even if dougs goals were pens he scored some crucial goals for us. Diaby his pace is badly missed

Doug has 0 assists/ 0 goals in 7 appearances for Juve, and the Turin press are saying he is a waste of money. Get him back in January on the cheap..

until he plays us .  Bound to score.

[Villa in Denmark]

Annoyed. I can’t stand them lot.

Worried as soon as they scored we were going to come away with nothing.

Liverpool up next. Great.

Then our next away game vs chelsea. Two terrible results last two. I just dont understand how this team falls to shit when we play spurs. We dont just lose to them we get battered by them when we lose. 8-1 last two games. Thats abysmal.

Nailed pn to lose against Chelsea. We never win on my Birthday.  My 40th was the 2-1 away to the shit in the LC quarter final.

[eye digress]

Despite being under pressure, thought we looked very composed first half and seemed to up the tempo when we fancied it. As others have said, on another day, Ollie puts those two chances away and it’s a different game. Hard to be too harsh though, he’s come through for us so often in the past.

When they equalised (filthy cross, that), I didn’t feel that the game had swung in such a way as to end up 4-1. However, I do feel that we lost the initiative during the stoppages and substitutions that began around the 55 mark and seemed to go on for about 10 minutes. For once, Unai seemed to misread the room. Bringing Duran on for Rogers seemed unnecessarily adventurous - it’s usually our late charge gambit - and we lost our shape as a result. As we could no longer get a foothold in midfield, having two forwards on the pitch was pointless.

With the benefit of hindsight, stiffening up midfield with Kamara and pushing Tielemans further forward might have been a better move. That would also have better supported the Bailey for McGinn switchover.

Sloppy stuff from Pau, but maybe that’s what happens when your centre backs are constantly playing in a strip ten yards from their own box. Was wondering if he’d get pelters à la Carlos… apparently not.

Telly went off as soon as the fourth hit the net. There was no way I was watching that “celebration”.

[VillaTim]

Filthy cross ? we gave him all the time in the world to do what he wanted , it was utterly pathetic defending

[eye digress]

Son having time to line it up doesn’t alter the fact that it was a very high quality delivery.

On a side note - too painful to watch the highlights - who should have been picking up Johnson for that goal?

[brontebilly]

Son having time to line it up doesn’t alter the fact that it was a very high quality delivery.

On a side note - too painful to watch the highlights - who should have been picking up Johnson for that goal?

Watch Torres.... Konsa and Martinez were shit for it too, mind.

[eye digress]

Wasn’t Konsa telling everyone to leave it?

Having flashbacks. 

[PaulWinch again]

Filthy cross ? we gave him all the time in the world to do what he wanted , it was utterly pathetic defending

It can be both. It’s a brilliant cross, the angle, pace etc are superb. It’s also really poor defending.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Filthy cross ? we gave him all the time in the world to do what he wanted , it was utterly pathetic defending

It can be both. It’s a brilliant cross, the angle, pace etc are superb. It’s also really poor defending.

Yep, there’s plenty of occasions when a player has time on the ball to put a cross in, or make a pass for that matter and completely cocks it up. Credit where it’s due, it was a cross of real quality.

[brontebilly]

Wasn’t Konsa telling everyone to leave it?

Having flashbacks. 

Well he was out of position to start with as that ball shouldn't be going past the front post but Martinez should have come off his line too. Konsa seemed to be doing a lot of pointing in Martinez direction during and after. It was an excellent cross that caused huge panic but a number of our players should have done better.