Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [2 - 4th March 2013]

So glad we didn't collapse after Arsenals goal.

I think our season will be determined over these 3 games

Tottenham v Everton Sun 7 Apr 14:05
Chelsea v Tottenham Sun 14 Apr 16:00
Tottenham v Man City Sun 21 Apr 13:30

MW
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Trophies and titles only matter to some players and the supporters. Money is what matters most and no CL football might be the nail in the coffin for Wenger.
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It looks like you're not the only one that thinks that

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MW
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Is that true? :eek:
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I think so but if you look at Spurs season

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/teams/TottenhamHot.html

I think he was injured for those games at City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Wigan, period of the season, so its not surprising, had he played they'd likely have lost the games they lost anyway, maybe not Wigan, if conversely he'd been fit for those games and miss 4 games of which 3 were against bottom 3 teams, that stat would be very different, stats are useful, context is everything.

Arsenal.... I'm still lolling hard at all those people after only 3 games who claimed that for a fact Arsenal's defence looked vastly improved and Bould was obviously having a huge impact........ ok, sure :rolleyes:

Arsenal as crap defensively as ever. Position across the whole back four was poor but Verm deciding to try and mark the ADebayor run without paying any attention to what was behind him, at worst the ball gets through to Ade, he'd be running towards the wing, not goal and no direct danger, but in doing so left a freaking huge gap for Bale. However Monreal was just as bad because he could see Bale, and did nothing about moving into that gap.

Second goal, Monreal both tried to play offside by stopping no where near in line with Vermaelen, and stopped marking the run, best thing to do would be mark the run and ONLY once he was the only defender to make the difference could he allow Bale to go offside, Verm wasn't exactly great for that goal either because he had no idea about the run. Honestly exactly nothing about Monreal has impressed me so far, defensively I've been very unimpressed, recently he failed to block a cross because he didn't even put his leg out, just let it happen, seems very easy to go around and makes mistakes like those today.

Defensively rubbish and offensively not good enough, we had loads of the ball but never really felt very threatening. Spurs, were a bit cack overall, took advantage of some woeful defending, except Sig/Bale chance where Sig passed it to the defender instead of shooting or a good pass to Bale.

When we put them under pressure there was very little pressure from the Spurs midfield, very few players closing down, but at the same time, when they broke it wasn't with any great numbers, it felt for long portions of the game like Spurs were a man or two down.

Lastly, Arteta, lol, Adebayor got flattened by him a few times, he held back loads of people and caught Lennon in the first minute or so yet didn't get a card, wasn't very good and should have been on a yellow within 10 mins and would probably have been pushing his luck by half time with the number of fouls he was commiting.
 
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That stat Quinn just pulled out about the players that left Arsenal. Just says everything...quality players allowed to leave due to Stan the man..
 
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North London derbies are very strange but entertaining games these days, aren't they? I thought Spurs were dreadful in the first half but they still somehow managed to score two goals. How many shots did they have in the first half? It couldn't have been many more than those two. Arsenal dominated and yet didn't seem to create much.

The second half was way more open. It really could have gone either way but again Arsenal didn't create many solid opportunities. RvP probably won't have destroyed Spurs. At least Wenger's substitutions were early and adventurous.

I thought Spurs' full-backs were very impressive. I know there's not much love for Assou-Ekotto on here but I think that he is Spurs' most underrated player. He set up Bale's chance in the second half and his long passes were the beginning of most of Spurs' breaks late on. Walker was also impressive and showed that he's strong as well as pacey.

Sigurðsson did well too. Lots of energy and was disciplined in the defense. I think virtually every Spurs fan would have preferred Holtby but obviously AVB thought that this wasn't the game for him.

Adebayor was woeful yet again. I think he must have been born offside. Defoe held the ball up a lot more effectively when he came on. I hope Dembele isn't serious hurt. He's the only defensively-minded player that Spurs have who can also play football.

Bookies now reckon that Spurs have an 85% chance of a top 4 finish. I guess St. Totteringham's Day might have to be cancelled this year...
 
wasn't that good a game in all honesty but spurs did what was required.

hope our injuries aren't too serious as we need all the depth we can now.
 
dawson played well too. he's very important to us 12 starts = 8 wins and 4 draws! we were going to sell him to qpr!

lloris is the keeper needed to push a high line. with kaboul back, we will have a very decent, quick and rotational defence.
 
I agreed with Neville that Vertonghen was incredible, I'd like to see the number of interceptions he made today?
 
I'll be honest I was rooting for Arsenal today and as such is frustrated the life out of me cheering on a team that has that heap of **** Giroud up front. Decent enough back up striker? Meh maybe. Capable of scoring enough goals to be the man that replaces RVP long term? Not a sodding chance.

Utterly atrocious defending as I'm sure has already been mentioned for both Spurs goals as well. It's on days like this I do pitty the Arsenal supporters for having to watch those players week in week out :o
 
Just goes to show that all the people who are calling Spurs a 1 man team are clueless about football. Bale did nothing today apart from score an easy goal. It's all about the team effort, and we showed today that we have the balls to get the results when needed.
 
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