Match Reaction v Spurs (Home - PL 16/17)

I've always assumed that Elneny is the stand in for Coq, rather than Santi. We didn't hand pick the perfect midfielder in January, he was pretty much a guy to fill up the squad and add numbers but has proved very useful since. After so much effort put into coming back from 2-0 down, I expected us to be a bit flat today and in years past we would've lost a game like this rather than deserve a least a draw. The other week it was Coq and Elneny shouldn't play together because they offer little going forward, post Boro I think that was reaction came about.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

We should have won but it's ridiculous to call Spurs ordinary and their manager less so

This is a team that is incredibly hard to beat, they aren't scoring many but they sure as hell aren't conceding many. The team performance wasn't great but neither was it terrible.

---

They are an ordinary team. Their manager has achieved fuck all in his career. In fact, he left Espanyol firmly rooted at the bottom of LA Liga and got shown up by Koeman a season after leaving Soton. Sure, he got the spuds into the CL last season (the piss poorest season in recent history), but he oversaw another of their Houdini-like bottle jobs, coming 3rd in a 2 horse race. And, they're currently utter tripe in the CL, on the verge of being booted out at the group stage.

Everything about them is ordinary. Ordinary players in every position (not one I can point to and say I'd want here), an ordinary bench and, yes, an ordinary manager. The media love them for some inexplicable reason though, so they get waxed lyrically about and some of our fans then allow themselves to be sucked it by the shit narratives.

PS I can't wait for the vermin scum to taste their 1st defeat, so all this nauseating talk about 'Invincibles' can fuck off right out the window.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Özil's Panoramic View

PS I can't wait for the vermin scum to taste their 1st defeat, so all this nauseating talk about 'Invincibles' can fuck off right out the window.

---

You mean the Unbookables surely?

We are in 4th place. What more do you guys want? We have reached our aim for the season.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by fakeyank

We are in 4th place. What more do you guys want? We have reached our aim for the season.

---

That coupled with qualification from the group stages to knockout round.

Job done.

New 2 year contract signing imminent.

watched the highlights of the game, we created enough decent chances to win the game, for all their defensive solidity we actually carved them open quite well at times but then just made the wrong decision or a shot was lacking conviction or accuracy.

Our defending was shoddy, conceded a penalty because koscielny was trying to deal with danger created for him by others...someone needed to set mustafi's alarm clock because the cunt was clearly still asleep.

They created decent chances and could have snatched an undeserved win if one of them had fallen more kindly for them.

Again hard to tell with highlights but the performance didn't seem as bad as was indicated on it, not from an attacking sense.....we created chances we were just horribly woeful in finishing them (where as many times we play tippy tappy and create fuck all)

Should have won no question.

Our defence has been shoddy all season.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Our defence has been shoddy all season.

---

Different personnel, same problem. Has been since 2006 when Wenger took over coaching the defence, before then we had players who knew when to ignore him.

It wasn't a great defence performance but we only conceded from a penalty. It's not as if we were lucky to come out with a draw.