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Wrong result, encouraging signs


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Spurs showed enough to show that Wembley isn't going to be a problem. We lost to a free kick where Hugo Lloris was a pace to far to one side of the goal. If you look at his eye line for the free kick he could, and perhaps should, have been a pace to his left.

From where he was he had no chance of getting across the goal as was proven. A left footer is eight times out of ten going to play the ball over the wall and the ball was not even in the corner but still Lloris got nowhere near it.

One up, they soaked up the pressure, we were helped by an own goal and then Wanyama, who kept giving the ball away in midfield, did so again and they scored after another Lloris error. Clearly Wanyama is not up to full fitness yet, which showed, mentally he wasn't sharp enough. Game time will give him that, but was it an error taking Dier off instead of Wanyama, the result suggests it was.

The French skipper should easily have kept out Alonso's shot, had it been Pat Jennings he would simply have stuck out a foot. It doesn't matter how you stop them, as long as you stop them, bottom line is Lloris didn't and the picture of him just before the game ended showed it clearly all over his face.


The wrong result but plenty of encouraging signs.

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10 comments

  1. I agree with you Clive that Lloris was too far over to the right for the free kick, but I'm not so sure he would have reached it hard he been another pace to his left.
    The second goal was just a catalogue of errors, Wanyama making 2, Lloris's, on another day those won't happen, but the media are going to ride the Wembley hoodoo horse until we win 3 or 4 games on the trott.
    As ever COYS.
  2. why was Dier subbed this gave us no protection down our right side ?
  3. We have three players who need their arses kicked…
    LLoris, you are not setting an example…your distribution frankly is shit (and not for the first time)…no more excuses you clearly do not read the tempo of the game and more often than not put us under pressure from your clearances… why on earth would you feed a player who is tracking back in the centre of the park and facing the wrong way? Schoolboy error!
    Alli… maybe you should choose to be a ballerina…DL if somebody wants to give us £200m for this nancy boy, please, ‘bite his hand off!’
    No, this is not an over-reaction watch the replay and see where we gave the ball away (i.e.Alli) and where the game was lost!
    p.s. HK let me remind you where the near post is…it’s on the same side from where the crosses come from so tell me, why did you spend most of your time hiding behind Luiz & Co waiting on the far post for a ball that never arrives…14 corners and how many times did you manage to make contact with the ball?
    Actually our whole appr…
    • Personally, while I share the frustration, I tend to go along with Clive on that performance. We were a long way from poor on the day. Certainly some errors were made. Particularly at the end when most players were tired - emotionally if not physically. It's very draining to keep pushing yourself and working desperately for a goal, only to be frustrated time after time.

      Chelsea played their game very well, but were still quite lucky not to concede from more of the shots we banged in at them. I wasn't too discouraged at all by our performance. On another day, on pretty well any other day, I believe we'd have won the game. Even against a well drilled Chelsea side in what's supposed to be a hoodoo venue for us.

      COYS!!
  4. Sorry Adrian ‘could haves’ & ‘should haves’ usually add up to ‘nil points’.
    At the very point where a few seconds respite were needed Lloris decides to ‘up the ante’.
    That’s not what I expect from a player of his experience. If we were 2 goals better fair enough but at 1-1 he has no excuse.
    I shall be watching Alli’s performance closely this weekend. Personally I think his head is elsewhere…like £200k a week elsewhere.
  5. I don't deny mistakes were made. I don't feel as pessimistic as you seem to, but neither do I deny there's a need to look at those mistakes and ensure they're not repeated.

    COYS!!
  6. Not pessimistic but as you said earlier frustrated.
    Still we beat Burnley and that's 6 points average from 3 which is where we have to be (2 points a game) to compete for a CL place next season, and a 1 point improvement from last season.
    • I can certainly sympathise with frustrated my friend. It seems that's the lot we have to cope with as football supporters. Not especially Spurs TBF.

      Curious about the Burnley comment. My understanding is that we play them next Sunday. Certainly we should expect a win, but a done deal?

      I have to say I'm very excited by Spurs' potential this season. It's a roller-coaster ride. Our job is to enjoy the ride rather than to get too involved in the scares. That's my perspective, and I don't mean that in any other way than as a suggestion.

      I hope Sunday shows that we can start to build up the goal difference we've been famous for over the last couple of seasons.

      COYS!!
  7. If we don’t beat Burnley on Sunday then we have failed to better lasts season’s start and, all the spiel about being ready to hit the front running running, will have come to nothing won’t it Adrian?
    Perhaps this point serves to explain my frustration with some of our players last Sunday?
  8. I see. It was a simple misreading of your meaning. I wasn't calling your statement into question. Simply misunderstood what you meant.

    I do understand frustration. Never pleasant. I suffer from it myself more than I'd like. Let's see what Sunday brings. Sunny skies and better news from Wembley I hope.

    COYS!!