The goal.
This will irritate some, but hey ho. Would a Premier League goalie have let that get past him? Kane’s unwillingness to pass, goes hand in hand with his killer instinct, I get that. However, I don’t believe Harry thought to himself, ‘he’s probably bot very good, I’ll welly it, and see what happens’.
The miss.
Laboured strike. Just glad it happened out of a Spurs shirt.
The best thing about this game? It was the last one of this particular Interlull.
Amen to the last line. Its been a punch in the stomach to the start of the season.
I meant to write this last night…Personally I think injuries like we get can show a real mental issue. From playing sport, and coaching for many years I find sports people generally approach injury in one of 3 ways, and its ingrained in them as people (I say sport as I have played a number of them, including teams and individual and to a semi pro level in Rugby). The problem is you cant really tell what one of they are.
1) The slightest niggle and they cant do anything but sit on their arses and cry, straight to the Dr/physio…think Danny Welbeck – These are generally players that drop down leagues into their 30’s adamant they can still compete at the top, but clubs are not willing to gamble on their fitness.
2) Players that genuinely know their bodies, they know when to run it off, and when to rest, and when to seek medical help. These players are rare, and generally have longer careers, and found a lot more in individual sports (opposed to teams) – Think Ronaldo
3) Players that you could snap their leg in half and all you get is “its only a flesh wound”. They will play despite injury. They generally have far shorter careers, they are great in a pinch, but will cost you long term as small injuries that could be fixed with a rest turn into long absences. These can be noticed because when they are injured (and admit it) its career threatening or long absences with no real link to an event (i.e no one actually stood on the players ankle and broke it).
I am not saying that real injury is not the issue, but how they treat injury impacts recovery time. I fear something is happening that has pushed a lot of our team into the third category. This is probably our limited squad depth mixed with the “team” all against us attitude. We don’t seem to have anyone in the 1 category, and very very few in the 2 (if any) but 3, all our players play or are out for months on end. I think we really need to adjust the head space of players and get them to know their bodies better.
The average premiere league game lasts 96 mins. The ball is only in play for 55.