Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
I really hope Arteta is pragmatic, stacks the defence and tries to hit on the break, if he shows too much hubris and we play our normal game without Rice or Odegaard it could all be a bit ugly
I don’t think Rice will be that big a loss, he’s not been great in the three previous games. The important thing is to not have Partey sitting in front of the back four or Timber playing the inverted left back role as Partey doesn’t track his runners and Timber is not good at all on the ball, so just making pressure for ourselves

I think stacking the team with defenders wouldn’t necessarily do us much good, we need to play in a way that gives us an attacking outlet. I think spurs will see more of the ball simply because that’s how it panned out the last two times we went there but, I think setting up in a way to completely concede possession to them is a good way of losing 1-0