Good afternoon.
I watched the Wiganistas vs Manchester City last night. Having managed to tune out a mystifying/irritatingly over reverent commentary …the facts of matter where that Wigan, who had little to offer put in a commendable performance and more interestingly may have highlighted to Arry & Co what has to be done only as well as that which shouldn’t.
Above all else, Defensive discipline is vital. You build a team from the back to the front.
If you watch the way City tend to attack – and not just last night – a lot of moves stem from controlling positions in the last third. They move the ball around outside the penalty area looking to thread it in to a midget such as Aguero and or put it onto Dzeko’s nut.
Kyle Walker’s ‘tag defending’ or Forest Gump 50 yard dash impressions will sink us. He achieved naff all against Wolves and against a outfit like City being caught out of position will only result in us being punished.
If you’re paid to be a defender than defend. We have players paid to take the ball up and service our goalscorers. Let’s use them.
Let width be our watchword. On their day, Bale and Azza Blud can be two of the most outstanding players in the league. So let’s play them in position. Watching Bale play his ‘License To Roam’ card is about as thrilling and rewarding as using photographs of Piers Morgan to wallpaper your entire house.
This is the Best Performing Side Since ’61™ and why be so daft/insane as sabotage that by mucking about with a winning formula? Bale has been frequently lethal on the wing. Azza Blud when he engages his brain can fizz and skip past players, creating space and havoc.
Why would you change that? Why?
Never overlook the obvious solutions. Push and run has never been out of fashion. We all watched Swansea move the ball about on the floor against the Woolwich Wanderers. The monkey on the telly used the word ‘triangles’ when describing this ‘revolutionary’ tactic, bless ‘im.
City are constantly referenced around money. But they have more to them than a list of expensive mercenaries as long as your arm. The have become increasingly physical in all departments. A glance at their disciplinary stats makes for interesting reading.
This season they have dished out 235 fouls, of which 34 generated cards. Our numbers are 180 fouls and 26 cards. Add to this the play acting factor.
Bale has perhaps understandably of late added falling over quite easily to his repertoire. But the City lot have got this down to fine art. So here’s a suggestion. Why don’t we keep the ball on the damn floor and pass it past ’em?
Here’s to a sane, stylish and speedy Spurs performance.
Possible King and Sandro available for Sunday. Seems Sandro’s injury has been exagerrated in some quarters.
Shame Ade can’t play, I think we will struggle to retain possession up top without him.
Sandro back,that would work a treat.Is it true?
Cant we dye Ade’s hair yellow and give him JD’s shirt?
What? And chop his legs off at the knees? ;)
QPR ball in the net but foul given on MK Dons keeper.
Wright Phillips misses a sitter 41mins
Going to shitee’s ground the ball game will be different to playing a wolves or everton at home where we would expect the away team to park the bus. Given they are the home team they will be at us from the go. The first 20-30 are going to be crucial if we are to get anything from the game. We need structure, organization, commitment and focus. The same attributes wolves and Sunderland showed against us where we had to battle and work hard to score. I believe we can win the game if we defend with poise and use our speed on the flanks to catch them out. Go with Defoe upfront, knock in low hard crosses making it hard for the centrebacks to defend. We simply can’t rely on lennons hit and miss floaties
Going to shitee’s ground the ball game will be different to playing a wolves or everton at home where we would expect the away team to park the bus. Given they are the home team they will be at us from the go. The first 20-30 are going to be crucial if we are to get anything from the game. We need structure, organization, commitment and focus. The same attributes wolves and Sunderland showed against us where we had to battle and work hard to score. I believe we can win the game if we defend with poise and use our speed on the flanks to catch them out. Go with Defoe upfront, knock in low hard crosses making it hard for the centrebacks to defend. We simply can’t rely on lennons hit and miss floaties and they don’t pose any real danger. The only 2 players we have that can knock in a decent cross is bale and VDV. The only thing that worries me about our lineup is Les, he was absolutely shocking against wolves, h’s positional sense was non existent and this is always causing errors and wrong positioning for the rest of the which ultimately contributes us to conceding unnecessary goals. COYS
Harsh on Azza… when he plays with Defoe, he favours the cut-back along the ground… (admittedly, normally to the pen spot, inhabited by no-one…)