Tottenham will be looking to make it six points from two Europa League games this evening against Belgium outfit, Antwerp.
Spurs are on a roll right now, they are gaining wins by whatever means are required and it is anyone’s guess what we will see tonight. It could be another high scoring comfortable win or a tough game that required a bit of grit and determination.
Of course, Antwerp will not be a walkover, they will be competitive but the way Spurs are playing right now, they should come away with the win.
It should be noted that Antwerp top the Belgium league and have won their last five competitive games on the trot.
But the truth is that the Belgium first division and English Premier League are a million miles apart and Jose Mourinho will not be a happy man if his side does not emerge victorious.
Anyway, this is the team the Portuguese has gone with. Let us know in the comments below what you think and what your predicted score is.
Keeping the ball under pressure and making good decisions quickly can be hard. They should be able to protect and pass the thing accurately though
I disagree. Its what the squads for. You’d “flog’m
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Famous for their African diamonds. Teefs🌚 give Africa back their crown jewels. Won’t need anymore hand outs
No just dealing in them.
They mine diamonds there?
Looking at the table those 2 results still wind me up.
Aldervield as well ,lost his pace if he had any but knows where to be and can help Rodon develop.
He thought this ain’t gonna work and changed it. Still never worked. Who knows what the score woulda been if he never.
Will burn out the team man. The team was enough to win the game but never
Scoring goals and second. How can you not get rightfully carried away. Especially with our attacking 5. The squads still dangerous. Bit more time man. (No where near like last season
They were doing so well then 2 individual errors and boom 2 nil down.
There it is right there.
That is what makes football a great game. It makes no difference how many times you hit the post, nearly score. You have to put it in the old onion sack. Antwerp managed it.
The team was good enough to beat them. Even with winks
Can still win something man. Let’s be honest our top four chances are better now too. Oh yeah. We ain’t out🌚
Maybe Jose didn’t do enough homework on Antwerp. Highly unlikely though.
Kinda, don’t want to write this season off but I know what you’re saying
🎼wont you come on innnnn. Jim reeves. My man.
Fkd it up on the night. We know we have more ability than them. Shame it ain’t all about ability
The 1980’s I meant.
Welcome to my world…
This whole season is our pre season man. It all starts next season. Full crew
Now now. We deserved to loose tonight. We blew 4 PL points by being amateurs.
Transition is a major problem
I’m gutted but I’m calm. We’ll be OK. I’m not gonna start coating anything off. Certain players ain’t good enough. I know that, I’m sure José does too. All will be replaced
I can remember our games with Dundalk back in 81. They equalised late and it was scary.
too many years of hope…calm no longer exists
It does actually. 🌚 its done now. Its not as if we were stuffed. Bayern 7. The pain the pain🌚
What would really boost morale tonight is if Arsenal lose 7-1 to Dundalk
Yep agree with that he wasnt playing bad ,other players were miles from him.
Stay Cool And Act The Fool. Yes Tappa we lost but it doesn’t feel as bad as Drawing with Newcastle and W Ham.
Away games in the Ropey league still inspire 😀
agree.
I cant see Real madrid spendin 30 odd million for a long time they are in debt to their eyes mate.
We might be a tad over the top
Stand firm fans. Don’t panic. Calm. I say.
We played against a confident hardworking championship side with a untried starting 11 who maybe started with a we are to good for this lot attitude ,as seen it didnt work.
Its a group stage and we will still get through ,Maureen would have learnt a little about his squad .
Was it just me but did Bale look very uneasy and a bit unsure of himself?
Battle a Waterloo. Wellington🌚
2nd in the league
When your team gives you that performance in a CL final you know something ain’t right. So what if pool played rubbish too
On loan
Levy spent similar amounts of money on players (maybe not wages ok) for Poch – it’s just Jose seems to be a canny old bird with the window, and quite pragmatic/realistic.
When our players are firing we play as entertainingly under Jose as Poch. I think this is the season we judge as the squad gets going – tonight was awful, I expect a reaction against Brighton but more than that I expect the key players to start going through the gears and shake off the last of that ‘pre season’ feel.
Worked there for 4 years in the late 80’s.An unbelievable number of great restaurants in Belgium.
Regi will turn out decent.
Shoulda had a bit more trust in his players.
Ndom too
Davies winks dier dele. Have to go. Sanchez too maybe.
Hojberg and Vinny aside we haven’t bought a good player for a long long time.
Still got the wand on him. He needs a few games man.
Once dembele (our vital cog) left for China we were complete garbage. We need a player to transition from defense to attack , our new guy wasn’t playing (nodemble) that’s why we were sh……..
I agree that was plain bizarre, I don’t know what he was thinking, they could have won 3-0 with better finishing. Without Kane and Son we don’t create.
But we should have lost that game 3-0. That’s the real pisser!
Took a bit a time for the lubricant to filter through though
Yes. The last thing Vinc needs is to have his confidence punctured.
Son will. Can remember when I said “the whole team needs changing apart from the obvious few. Some laughed saying if the new manager was so good he shouldn’t have to. About the same time they laughed when I said klopp p!$$es on poch as a coach. And when I said I’d swap eriksen for zaha.
I think Jose was also being billy big bollocks and made too many half time changes to prove a point but it back fired…should of kept Vinc on
I think Jose was also being billy big bollocks and made too many half time changes to prove a point but it back fired…should of kept Vinc on
It’s not the first time we haven’t played well in this competition, these games are about on the day, and on this day it didn’t happen, even with h/t changes. I thought they were very good , but from our point of view, I think Mourinho is trying to get the squad to gel by giving players chances and mixing it up. It didn’t work tonight but at least he is learning about all his players by doing so.
They both deserve being part of a well oiled machine like Liverpool last season.
TBF Poch was never supported by Levy in the transfer market was he? Mou has been so no excuses there.
I don’t see any real improvement in our displays to when Mou took over tbh. We have one or two good games then it always goes pear shaped again. We’re too inconsistent and play some dreary football that gives the opposition too much respect. We were lucky against Burnley too.
But of course al lot of this is just because I’m f-d off with the game. Hopefully it was just a one off.
How many times do we see this ” they thought all they had to do was turn up”. That is exactly what being Spursey is all about. I see that attitude in us more than most and have done many times.
Will Kane and Son wait another season?
If Jose wanted to win then play your strongest 11. We cannot afford to chop and change and expect good results when at least 5 or 6 of the changes are sub standard journeyman footballers. Jose gambled and we lost.
I think everyone agrees the team selection tonight was Jose dropping a b’llock
This was a huge game for them, their biggest in years. They have been love bombing the Spurs all week talking about how it will be a miracle if they beat Spurs. We went sleep walking into that match and couldn’t match their zeal. We were caught cold, lesson learned, spank them at the lane.
a team that plays with its back to the goal sums it up…
This
Yep. We’ll have all we need by next season. Can’t change the whole team in one go. We’ll be fine man.
As you say, it’s early days. Fingers crossed.
Absolutely spot on. No thought or imagination, just pass it quickly to a marked man. We need to keep our heads up and be more inventive.
We need better players in at least 3 positions.
Chelsea are lower in the league if you want to do the stats. They’re struggling.
Poch on the crest of a wave was great…then he ‘resigned’ and threw in the towel before a ball was kicked in the CL and the rest is history. What’s your point? Go back in a time machine and get Paul McKenna to brainwash him to believe he could win.
It’s over, let it go. Why compare? Different side, different manager – Poch was over long before he left the building. Relegation form for 12 months of PL football…pretty lucky they didn’t run in a single season tbh
Look this is the sort of team you don’t want to fall behind against, exactly like Burnley the other night. If they get the first goal they put 11 men behind the ball and then hit you on the counter over and over while fouling and fighting their way to a clean sheet. We need to learn how to break down teams like this but that’s easier said than done, the majority of teams in the Premier league would have struggled in the situation we found ourselves in tonight, but most of them wouldn’t find themselves in that situation. That was the most Tottenham goal to give away and something that Jose was brought in to sort out, he couldn’t do it at Utd and he’s struggling to do it here. If he can’t coach these cretins to defend then get some decent defenders in in January and sort this mess out.
I wasn’t commenting on him when he’s match fit, I was commenting on him right now, for his performance in a match Maureen thought it was a good idea to start him in.
I’m Diers biggest critic but he’s Bobby Moore compared to Sanchez
People will man.
I’d rather have Klopp at the moment, but that’s a knee jerk reaction I suppose.
It was too many changes and Jose thought they had it in them…
They duped us with their David v Goliath rhetoric all week and Spurs thought they just had to turn up. Jose is learning there is still plenty of deadwood in the squad while players like Bale and LoCelso are not fit enough yet. Vinicius gets a free pass for now. Dele is gone and Bergwjin looks a bit low on confidence.
Bale is miles off. Dele has run out of time. Moura regularly poor as is Bergwijn. We have 1 ageing quality centre half and 1 good full back. Otherwise it’s all looking rosy in the garden.
We seem so slow and ponderous these days, like our boys can’t process what to do with the ball once they get it.
Only Kane and son from the poch time should still be here. Like I said “only them two will be here when the glory Begins
Chelsea won 4-0 away. How many halves of football did we have under the previous manager when we looked the best team in Europe? And with a smaller squad to choose from.
I am worried about him if I’m honest . I’m aware it’s early and he’s been injured , hasn’t played but it’s his lack of acceleration that concerns me . Speed over 10 yards is wgat it is irrelevant of fitness
‘Bale is a country mile away from the player who left us’ is hyperbole
Maybe wait until he is match fit?
Poch copyrighted it…we’ll have to get him back 🤨
The teams not far off. Just needs a bit a time. Ask klopp.
We were just plain weak at times, yes
For months now we’ve been so inconsistent, the odd good display but too many poor ones. Why can’t we just play the Poch way? It worked well enough back then.
We’ve had as many new players as Chelsea who are also struggling…let’s wait a tiny bit longer before going totally overboard in judgements
We’ve had three halves of football in the Premier League that made us look easily the strongest side in the league.
I still think that’s nearer to where we’ll end up performance wise that this Ropey no show.
Not a lot shocks me now in the game.
Eh? Who’s overreacting?
He can join Gerkens.
I never drew first blood. Bored of saying it. Also I don’t like people making out my club is useless/hopeless
We played like ballerinas. I saw at least 3 players pull out of challenges, Winks is a Balsawood player and he now plays like he knows it.
True. Then again I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve stated that truth after a shock loss over the past couple of decades.
says the man that hates everyone that disagrees with him..
Once again our performances are far too inconsistent under Mou. I don’t think we’re as good as we think we are. Forget the title I’ll settle for the Carabao cup!
Delli now toast.