Tottenham Hotspur - v - Leeds United *** Matchday Thread ***

[ozleeds]

How on earth do you give away a 2 goal lead and then defend like that?
Cooper Kotch, what sort of tackles were they costing us 2 goals?
All good scoring but what's the point?
Mb sure has left a legacy of crap defending wonder how long will that go for.
I feel for the 6 in front they ran their legs off only for 5 clowns at the back.

[Billyni]

If only we had a decent manager.

He’s a bit of an escape artist.
Just as the trigger is about to be pulled, he gets a couple of results.

[Rev72]

3 points above the drop zone with Man City to play on our return....happy days

[Rev72]

See Fat Franks doing well

[UbiqueLUFC33]

Well, it was at least entertaining!

We may as well paint a big white arrow down our left hand side saying "This way to a certain goal".

I thought Summerville was excellent. For the love of God will Kristensen just ONCE try and go past someone and deliver a cross rather than killing every attack stone dead. Some very inconsistent refereeing - how can they not get booked for pulling Summerville back by the shirt? Could have done without the red card for Adams - maybe Man City will lend us Phillips for the game he misses since he will be there anyway?

[Billyni]

3 points above the drop zone with Man City to play on our return....happy days

Yeah it’s a position we’re gonna flirt with all season. Unless……………………………..

[UbiqueLUFC33]

Looks like we are back to the "hoping there are 3 teams marginally worse than us" strategy again.

[Monaco_Totty]

How on earth do you give away a 2 goal lead and then defend like that?
Cooper Kotch, what sort of tackles were they costing us 2 goals?
All good scoring but what's the point?
Mb sure has left a legacy of crap defending wonder how long will that go for.
I feel for the 6 in front they ran their legs off only for 5 clowns at the back.

Stand out problem in defence again is at centre-back.

JM's really pushing his high intensity counter-press to ideally 'squeeze the opposition' higher up the pitch but with Leeds lack of technical MOBILITY at centre-back (outside of Koch) WE cannot play the high line as JM requires.

Obviously, currently defensively we have Koch, Llorente, Cooper, Struijk, Hjelde, Dallas, Ayling, Firpo, Kristensen, Cody Drameh & maybe Dallas but only Koch has 'mobility' in his locker presently & Roca for all his tidy attributes doesn't provide that missing element to his game, again today it showed when it mattered.

Pace of today's PL requires 2 mobile centre-backs not static brick house walls of the Coops & Harry Maguire genre.

Light at end of the tunnel ?
Possibly. 🤗

Interesting to hear what Hopey says as he went today.

[UbiqueLUFC33]

Light at end of the tunnel ?
Possibly. ��

Don't get too excited. That light of the end of the tunnel may well be the express train that's about to flatten us at 200 mph.

[Oranje White]

Have watched their first goal over and over. VAR are a disgrace. There is no way that should've been allowed. Kane could've picked the ball up in his hands and walked across the line and VAR would've allowed it.