Morning my dears. Nothing shy of a sensational evening. I can hardly express how happy it makes me watching us play like that.
Upstairs for thinking, downstairs for dancing. Our mindset was spot on. Our shape and concentration was immense. we kept possession and mopped up the losses of the same. We moved the ball like Champions. This was one one of those rare, rare games that will bench-mark Spurs performances for a generation
The Milanese rain turned out to be holy water absolving Gomes of all previous sins. He made two extraordinary saves and looked every bit a world class goalie.
Make no mistake this composed Tottenham side beat a formidable European giant in their own back yard and in manner that you would have barely known we were the away side. Look, even naffin’ Ray Wilkins was cooing.
Here’s some player ratings.
Gomes – 9.13 – A pair of breathtaking saves.
Charlie – 8 – Flamini wants arresting for that tackle.
Gallas – 8.96 – Champions League class.
Woody – 8 – Sent a bit of shiver down the spine to see him again.
Sir Les – 9 – No hoofs, no wild headers – looked confident.
A&E – 7.99 – Sound as a pound, thank the Lord.
Azza Blud – 9. 24– The wing heeled winger worked very hard.
Sandra – 9.25 – His best game in the shirt yet – a mature, elegant game.
Sarge – 9.24 – Robust and unrelenting.
Peanut – 8.99 – His best game in the shirt yet n’all.
Modders – 8 – Can’t believe his stitches held.
Krankie – 8 – Cool calm and Croation. Some bench we have, eh?
VdV – 9.27 – I’m scared how we’d be without him – he was pivotal.
3MP – 9.26 – When he actually gets to play football, he’s a devil.
the scumbags are under huge pressure now after our top top win last night.They havent got IT in them.We have IT in us.
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More scum pain:
Arsenal’s mercurial midfielder Samir Nasri has risked the wrath of the Gunners faithful by praising the atmosphere at bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur’s White Hart Lane home.
Nasri, who joined Arsene Wenger’s side in 2008 from French giants Marseille, heaped praise on the vocal support created by opposing fans with Arsenal’s own Emirates Stadium often derided for a lack of atmosphere.
“I probably shouldn’t say this, but the atmosphere at White Hart Lane is very, very good,” he says in the March issue of FourFourTwo.
Very funny watching them posting all over the web today how our win wasn’t like theirs against Milan and how it shows the sudden decline of Italian football.
Apparently, both Milan sides have gone on a monumental slide since A) In AC’s case, being the greatest team on earth, who were beaten by Arsenal less than 2 years ago and B) in Inter’s case, since winning the CL last year against the team who demolished Arsenal (Who must have just had a bad day against a very bad Inter side).
Their myopic view of the world has been summed up by one blogger calling Flamini’s tackle ‘Heroic’. Probably exactly the same blogger who would describe Stoke, Bolton et al as ‘Thugs’.
They really are the sorriest bunch of sad losers on the planet and my dearest wish is that they get royally ripped a new one tonight.
Blackpool next. Onwards and errr upwards I guess!?
It really is a jolly nice time to be Spurs
:-D
A smile so wide my face hurts today.
I am still in a state of shock over the match. After the Arse win, I was left bewildered about all the strange things that went on in that match, and am even more puzzled after this one. Maybe their really is a higher power controlling our destiny this season, because like Sunderland and Arse, this is another match that cannot be explained by sound reasoning.
First, I have watched all of their matches this season and have a lot of respect for Allegri, but his moves yesterday were borderline insanity:
– marking 3MP with Gattuso. Yepes dominated 3MP in the box in the air and had their two best scoring chances with 3MP marking him. If Yepes marked 3MP instead, we would never have had any possession and the result would have been much different
– playing three holding midfielders, as if he was trying to stop Modders and Thudd. It was clear it was the wrong formation in the first half, yet he stuck with it to open the second.
– When it was clear we were setup entirely to stop Seedorf from getting on the ball, he didn’t make any adjustments at all to counter
– throwing all caution to the wind to try and win the match at the end, when a 0-0 draw leaves them in a great position for the return leg
Second, how on earth did Lennon stay on his feet?
Third, how did Abbiati get a concussion when all replays showed he was never touched?
And finally, how did Joe get through that without throwing a right hook? It would have given us great pleasure to see it, but it would have been a blemish on what was a classy showing on our part.