The return to the Champions League has been heralded by Spurs by a £2 hike in the program price, but compared to the hefty ticket prices, what’s another few coins? Maybe one day, it will be spent on players that a coach can use to advance the team before he’s forced to exit the premises forever.
This is Conte up against it, from here on in, and it was no surprise that the gaffer refused to agree that we landed in a softer group than some. Tottenham under the Italian has fielded very similar starting xis with little or no rotation. Add the pressure of a condensed fixture list because of the World Cup and the cries from fans to see Djed Spence and others may well reach fever pitch. One or two injuries and Antonio will have no alternative but to run out his less favoured players.
Now that I think about it, Romero dropped a beautiful diagonal to Perisic, who of course muffed it. Romero was soon pulled…
Ho-efully this isn’t the start of Conte realizing what Levy is. Spence wasn’t the managers choice.
Seconded..
Conte sees him as making up the numbers for the training pitch.
Time for the sharp harp
Everyone but Spence played RWB yesterday. First Royal, then Kulu, then Tanganga played out wide for a couple of shifts with PEH dropping back before Conte put Doherty in. If Lucas was healthy he probably would’ve played there too.
But I agree with you Spence deserves a shot.
Alternatively – we only eventually beat 10 men, which Son, due to his top of our range pace, was responsible for. No Son, no red card leg-up, less likely win. ?
the arse kick was brilliant from Perisic
Given how good he is, it struck me as odd how little of the ball he saw up to the time he put in the cross for Richarlison’s first goal.
Conte got it wrong last night IMO. They were clearly under instruction to play through the middle and try the little flick on for the deep runner. But there was just acres and acres of space for the wingbacks but nobody was popping a diagonal ball over the top for them – it was just bizarre.
I know he’s a noob, but for me the game was absolutely set up for Djed Spence to come on and start bombing down the flank. Instead we got poor decision making and an almost hit and hope tactic through the centre circle on the off chance that one flick might work eventually.
Another opportunity for me to harp on about the folly of us not investing in a world class right wing back.
Not only a £2 hike for a programme Harry, I was more dismayed to find the Neck Oil has gone from a fiver to £6.29 – cheeky sods!
He earned the red, but was very poor again. Kane, Richie, and Kulu should start at City.
Having Perisic in there is brilliant. A grown-up, damn good footballer.
According to the stats, Son gave the ball away 17 times – it felt like it
Neither Kane or Richarlison are slouches in the air…Perisic seems capable of crossing, could be a regular source of goals
The defending by Liverpool was out of this world last night….and not in a good way.
Unbelievably poor, schoolboy stuff.
Only just seen the clip of Richarlison going to his parents in the crowd.
Made me realise what an “elder statesman” Perisic is (he grabs him and has some words of encouragement and doesnt boot him up the ‘arris this time).
Don’t think I’ve seen him make a forward pass, definitely not a good start to his Spurs career either way.
This statement is non judgemental just a warning for Citeh
The marking for the first goal was very Spursy.
Each attacker is covered by a defender apart from Richarlison who is in space consequently an almost perfect header.
An attacker can still win the ball but it is a cardinal sin to leave an opponent unmarked.
Poor old Kulu sacrificed because Conte for all his temper tantrums hasn’t got the cojones to bench Son.
Looks that way!
Gonna pull that weirdos hair too
They’d probably done their homework on Sanchez as the sun defender, Japhet was an unexpected swerve ball!! 😂
👍
Certainly seems like Richarlison has caused a Sonny malfunction. He seemed to be operating well with Kulusevski on the right, but Richarlison comes in and he looks very very out of sorts. His entire demeanour has ‘very unhappy’ written all over it.
Maybe a bit early, but alarm bells are getting louder.
Nah
And he is posting good numbers to be fair to him. We’ve seen him in worse form, no?
Edit: Kane I meant, not Son, he’s been pretty rotten obv.
Being saved for Citeh..Haaland on his mind.
Did Romero go off with some kind of injury or tight hammy? I hope not.
I agree, Richarlison seems to be determined to prove himself at a big club. As you say, how much longer can we play like this and get away with it?
Have the asthma pumps been taken off LFC..
Hopefully this resilience to get results when not playing well will also mean we can win playing well, occasionally?
Class is permanent but Sonny seems to be a bit of a ‘confidence player’, he needs his tail up to perform but right now it obviously looks very much down…
That’ll be the day.
Hopefully Citeh will rest Haaland 🙏
Maybe Richarlison keeps flicking him with a towel in the showers
Silly mid-on
Everything about him and Sonny sucked, if we’re honest…
He looks a bit broken. Perhaps Richarlison has caused a disturbance in the force?
Klopp was majorly backed, they weren’t good defensively before VVD and Allison signed. Klopp’s success came on a wave of top signings, perhaps the rejuvenation of that high is beyond him?
Sure, I joked he still has his pace.
But that first half he stood out as particularly weak – I’d need to see the stats on how often he was caught on the ball because it seemed like A LOT.
Still beasting them in training??
You could argue that Son’s drawing the red card won us the game.
Kane is in maximum greedy mode, snatching at things
Sadly Son is killing us right now.
Kane is a bit lost too but just has that autopilot level of quality which still means you’d never take him out of the side.
Agreed, and city need to play 10 men.
The red was earned.
Could have been better for us if Son continued and scored to break his duck rather than the red, somethings up with the bloke he was cheaply robbed of the ball about 10 times that first half and he can’t seem to strike a football in anger.
He needs to start again against City with Kulu in for Son.
Richy with his family in the stadium , well done mate.
Fulham was not a bad performance :/
Kane is out of form and a bit desperate/snatchy.
Son is out of form and a bit weak/lacking in confidence.
If those two are in better form we score nearly every counter.
Your early comment will turn out correct I’m 100% sure , either of these 2 teams ain’t winning it.
Bissouma just Winks in disguise
Haaland to come at the weekend. The fun gets better.
Kane’s shooting has been woeful tonight.
4th crap performance in a row. Conte needs to get a grip.
And the red 🤣
A very strange performance. Kane looks leggy and has taken up some weird positions, I’m not sure what role he was trying to play
Two very good goals but a dreadful performance 😬
You wouldn’t like me when I’m Tang-angry
Pleased for Rich and happy for the win but Conte is riding his luck..
i can answer that from corners😀
It must have confused them
Replacing Romero with Tanganga was a masterstroke.
It was the Tanganga sub that opened up the game.
Richy is at his best in the air, begs the question why we don’t feed him crosses?
In it!
Two moments of genuine quality. Well done Richie, PEH and Perisic.
Pay back time for the 60 mill.
The bloke has been involved in nearly every goal we’ve scored this season – he’s quality.
Son needs to have a rest easy pass and he can’t even do that
Sonny……. Pass it!
😃
Not been great today, but well deserved overall.
Richie!
I take that back😂😂😂
Imagine if that had gone in. Do you think Conte wants to be fired?
RICHARLISON!!!!
He needed that, been so unlucky not to score for us already
Even with 10 men they can’t be bothered,,, hard press you lazy overpaid mugs.
Davies almost giving them a goal. What are we doing?
Just switched back from the Napoli game and the commentator was saying he can’t understand how poor Spurs are.He obviously hasn’t done his homework.Back to Napoli.
Resting him for City
Tanganga for Romero???!!!!
They can’t guess what you’re doing if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Super subs
Most of the season to be fair
10 men and we can’t keep the ball long enough to make a difference, blame time wasting all ya like..
Jaded and devoid of ideas. I thought Kane and Son were supposed to be world class
Conference league anyone??
Davies and tanganga?
WTF
You could argue we timed waste the entire first half…
Jose would be proud
When time wasting becomes an art form
Yep .
It’s refs like these that gave us VAR
Ref having a mare since the red.
Son can’t head the ball so he takes the corners …… but he can’t take corners.
This ref is a fooking divvy.
This ref has all the spine of a jellyfish
What I don’t understand about the Liverpool game is that both teams want to get into the opponent’s half when they have the ball.
Is that football?