Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [21st - 26th February 2020]

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adam cool dude said:
What do you mean he made the keeper sit on his arse!
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You hit a penalty top corner hard a keeper will never save it unless he goes so early that you have time to change your penalty. Same for hard in the bottom corner. Doing what Bruno did looks great when it comes off but when it doesn't you look like a **** and the keeper makes the easiest save in the world. There comes a point in your run up where you can't change where you are going to put the ball. If the keeper doesn't go down early or the wrong way that doesn't go in.

I don't know why but any penalty that goes in is a cracker and any that are saved are rubbish. Same penalty, 2 outcomes and everyone calls the one that scores a good penalty and the saved one a bad. A penalty is either good or bad at the moment you strike the ball, not based on whether in ends up in the net. Your job as a penalty taker is to maximise the chance of scoring and minimising the impact of what the keeper does. That penalty didn't fulfil either criteria.
 
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The gap between our defence and the midfielders who are back and the strikers is huge. Watford have about a 20 yard strip in the middle of the pitch where everything is theirs.
 

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fez said:
Hes become a chequebook manager that doesn't want to have to work around the current generations egos. He thinks that you should do what you are told and with the amount you are being paid as a footballer you should put up and shut up.



Those mental issues are a result of overachieving for years with almost 0 funding and getting to the CL final only to lose. Who in their right mind wouldn't be affected by that. They know that isn't likely to happen again in their careers at Spurs and they don't have the squad to compete for the league. Thats not mental weakness, thats just facing the reality of their situation.



Levy doesn't need to be quite as tight as he has been and he did spend a reasonable amount in the summer. The problem is that Jose doesn't fit the profile of the squad he has. He won't have the money to completely redo it and even if he did, he would implode before it was complete. Do Spurs fans even want his brand of football.
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I don't think we know how much money Levy has to work with. My impression is that is it relatively limited and that Levy doesn't have the luxury of being a spendthrift.

The fundamental problem is that Lewis and Levy run the club as an investment rather than passionate fans. It's particularly galling that Lewis is a self-proclaimed spurs fan but refuses to go for glory in the twilight years of his life.
 
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