My biggest pet hate in respect of football, and there are many, has to be utterly irrelevant factoids. This fixture has seen Forest’s top flight record against Spurs doing the rounds. Today’s hosts have won six of the last nine clashes between the pair. The last time we played this lot was in the 1998/99 season, and so this has less than zero relevance to anyone.
What’s of more use, even after just a handful of games is that Tottenham is currently unbeaten, whereas Forest has only secured 4 points from a possible 9.
Unhappy with himself, his performance, and it’s horrible to be taken off when you’re not used to it… Some get angry, some nearly cry, some sulk…
The rare times I was taken off (usually because I was on a yellow and on the verge) I would react by being extremely quiet. I just wouldn’t speak for hours after… Fuming with myself usually… Lol
Incidentally, how nice to see a new player famous for being a nuisance or falling over, using a surprising blend of subtle skill and intelligence to create a goal.
Go on The Shape of Things to Come!
Bissouma’s another wind up merchant, can’t wait to see him given a run out.
Strange one, innit? If Conte wanted a lightweight tricky winger, he’d be playing Bryan Gil.
I love that he’s a wind up merchant, top class sh*thousery. Are you not entertained? The moaning from Forest’s weirdo looking manager was the cherry on the cake.
They seem to be playing a bit flat-footed off the ball. Like they are still thinking out and processing their individual roles. Results in hard first touches, slow movement off the ball, slightly mistimed passes.
Will get better with time if that is the case.
I see the potential for Kulu to drop into a transfer role as well. He has the skillset for it.
Patron… I smiled at that one.
What else would you expect wrt names from Tony Conte?
The Premier League will close the transfer window on Thursday, Sept. 1, at 11 p.m. BST.
It’s deadline day on Thursday
Sessegnon has been continuously poor, his entire career, Park Lane/Bruce Grove.
Funny that those stats seem to have lost in the post. Or .. as I suspect they just doing exist. Good solid performance imo
So it’s deadline day today? A top signing would be marvellous. Not holding my breath though..
I find Contes nicknaming of our players hilarious.. Sonny, Hobby, Winky, Reggy, Richy, Cuti, Harry…. Sounds like Spursy streamlined..
Reg and Winks are finally leaving. Does this mean we will have one or two more incoming? Savic would be ideal.
We have to hope Antonio rings the changes on Wednesday night. Son should be benched. Spence should maybe be given a longer run and Bissouma should start. Hopefully Romero is fit and can slot back in defence.
i’m becoming a Richi convert. He’s made the difference with each performance. What I enjoyed was his attitude to the second ball for the second goal. We’ve needed a player like this for ages. Hopefully more to come.
Behave ! He’s only had cameo appearances so far and has actually made a difference in all of them.
Sess completely mucked that cross up yesterday, Kane had his head in his hands. Richi kept the game alive the rest is history.
I’m no Richi fan but give credit where it’s due.
WTF is the Daniel James rumour about? If we spend any kind of money on him I’ll boycott the entire season. Madness if it happens
Oh yes I came on to complain about Sessegnon
WHat is the Spurs fan split on this about 80%?
He will never make it I dont see how Conte rates him above Reguilon but roll on next season we will have 2 very good LWBs.
I take the stats with a pinch of salt if a header flashes a few inches wide I presume it goes in the “shots” column not the “on target” column whereas if a lame shot goes at Lloris
We are conceding too many chances that fortunately none of the 4 teams we have played have a top striker.
Good shout by the poster below about Kulu in m/f he is strong & languid (not box2box) Dembele was like that.
2 clean sheets in 4 is good as well.
That cross to Kane was sublime it was like they were on the training pitch trying things out
I know he is a fighter but I didnt know he had such skill.
Kane was HP especially as Sessegnon had cocked one up just before that.
Sessegnon was poor , Son was poor , Dier , Davies , Davinson bang average , Kulusevic producing only sporadically , Kane is Kane , Benty and Peh adequate but not star quality .
Score 2-0 to Spurs , about as right as many pre-match predictions . This is not Spurs at their ‘flying’ best and we do not look threatened .
There are bigger tests to come and if we can produce in those crucial games , confidence will surge throughout the squad . There is so much more to come , I’d guess we’re running at 80% right now and very encouraged for the rest of the season …….. C O Y S !!!!!1
We are loaning out Tanganga ..I see little difference bar the hype, in Sess and Tanganga , just hope we aren’t popping up with …’ Sess ..he is only 25 ‘ in 3 years time..
He give the ball away a fair bit in the first half ..but there was a fair bit of hoofing ..his distribution was decent second half ..this is Sanchez weakness did well in defence..didn’t compare to others .
Drop Son ..not Kulu ..Kulu had more impact than Son all game .and for every game this season.
NDombele mark II.
I’m so glad it got emphasised in the headline that Sessegnon got dropped. He did nothing starting the last game v Wolves, NOTHING.
It was almost as if he wasn’t on the pitch. The commentator kept swearing at him in Croatian, calling him a Perisic.
Praise be we have a stickler for detail like The Boy to give us the real story, not what the MSM want us to hear
Ah…
Is he 16 or 56 though?
Class.
Yep, the play acting is embarrassing…. His mouth wasn’t hurting. He was barely touched..
I can’t stand that crap.
He means shots on target… Forrest had one. We had seven.
They had 17 shots to our 18.
They would have scored if Hugo didn’t dash off his line to fingertip the cross in second half. They had a few other moments as well but were either blocked or pressured enough to not even hit their shots on target.
You dont get many who are two footed and quality ,spurs have been lucky with regard to getting 2 footed players
He already plays that way,just that Antonio doesnt use them in the middle ,he uses them on the wing.think of a Creative Mid but playing on the Wing.
This is wildly inaccurate!
We made hard work of it. We looked slow lethargic. But look at the expected goals. I think that tells you what you need to know. There’s more than one way to win a football match.
I think Richarleson needs a start ahead of Kulusevski (although Kulu was better in this game than the last few) and when Bissouma is settled he needs to start ahead of Bentancur.
On another note, could Kulusevski one day be the heir to Dembele in centre mid? He’s strong, keeps the ball well under close control in tight situations and carries forward well. Just a thought…..
All in all, we defended a lot more than I’d want us to, but we did that reasonably well, conceding just one on target – even though it’s difficult to tell if that means we’re actually okay defensively or if Forest were incompetent. Probably a bit of both.
Son needs to sit one out. He’s completely transformed and not for the better. Richarlison had more of an impact in this game than Son has this season. Let’s see him start on Wednesday.
Our counters were weird today. We could have scored four in the first half alone, and we messed up a few other decent positions by taking too much time on the ball, misjudging passes etc.
Kane missing a penalty proves that he, too, is a human being (but he was probably just distracted by Tuchel in their goal).
Sanchez and Royal still worry me immensely. Sessegnon sadly showed that HH might be right in calling him a competition winner.
But hey, another clean sheet!
Pleased to see Sanchez have a quietly faultless game; from what I saw he gave the ball away fewer times than all the other defenders and Pierre. But then I’m no professional stats collector.
10 points from 12. Only dropping 2 at the Bridge where we haven’t won in donkeys.
I’ll sleep fine tonight.
West Ham sucks, Moyes is out of tricks.
That’s right. Beautiful football it’s not. But effective.
He’s brazilian, everyone loves ’em, he’ll go no drama
Forest only had one shot on goal we had 8
Conte knows that to win matches you score more than the opposition. That’s it.
Defend well, score when you get the chances.
Play pretty possession football like Forest did, tire yourselves out after 60 minutes, then lose and get credits from the pundits for a great performance. But nil points.
That was superb
Not the game I saw. We lost the ball on too many occasions, fluffed our chances and allowed them too much of the ball, especially in our defensive third. I’ll take the win, not the performance.
Well he’s obviously one-footed as he had to use his right foot from the left wing. /s
Can’t see much else he did wrong.
Lamela on steroids.
The keepy uppys alone were worth it.
Nah, this was an assured, confident performance where they never really threatened and we turned it on when needed. A different Spurs team from recent years.
Looking forward to the statistics that show that Richarliosn had a terrible game and was a cr*p buy, even though ‘to my eye’ his introduction changed the nature of the match, added more energy to our attack and led directly to the 2nd goal.
More of a NDombele then
True
Not so much he missed… but he was up against a fine goalie.
Probably the ideal game Kane misses his ‘one penalty out of fifty’
We are still making life hard for ourselves. Games like that should be more comfortable to win because we have more quality. We should control games more effectively, missing penalties doesn’t help.
this was men against boys simple as
West Ham is the bigger game this week – that’s the one we should judge more
Goals Against 3 – joint 2nd. Goals for 9 – joint 4th? As H says… the stats don’t lie.
if you consider their chances ‘full chances’ and not half chances we’d still have won 10-6 – it was spirited by Forest but still no drama
Talking about grinding them out!
Sort it out, Conte FFS.
‘much younger’
Nah, much longer, probably long contract, his value won’t depreciate that much in five months
There’s a word coming to me………..Nonce.
If either side could actually finish that could have been 6-6. We were woeful at the back, and Forest were wide open on the break.
Steve Cooper has the unfortunate look of a kiddie fiddler.
Well done Kane..
Didn’t bother getting out of second gear..didn’t need to…ONWARDS!
Take the result but not the performance..
Whatever it takes.
I’d rather we had a star player than didn’t have one.
Plenty of teams without.
Just as well as they have to keep it up for 90% of the game..
Sell him while he’s still got some value. Otherwise it’ll be another Dele, and we’ll be giving him away to Everton…
One man team again….again..
Tallest side in the league…we’re starting to look quite formidable attacking AND (yes this is Spurs) DEFENDING set plays.
Boom.
Pathetic by the ‘hard man’ Hojbjerg
Richarlison should have put that away. Should have shut a whole lot of us up.
Poor
Spence has pace. I’ll put the miss down to nerves
Spence on
Richarlison…..Spence….nope
Booooo
You are absolutely right
Dare I say it Peter Ebdon v the Rocket.
Buy one get one free (Sess)
Royal can stay until January – who cares? Sure Doherty or Spence will take his place.
Then sell.
Not sure what Kane did for his yellow. The crowd jumped on him. Pretty bad stewarding really!
100%. Different energy about the team. Still need to move Royal on
Dirty team, Forest.
some assist though!
One for the older fans. 😂
Richly needs a string of games for sure, so does Bissuuuuuumma
He’ll be spitting in kids faces in an hour
He’s got his one assist for the season now – cash in
Eddie Charlton!
Tyler and Carra need to shut up. It’s alright for Henderson to take the proverbial, but not Richarlison
Carra has a new bugbear – as irrational as the last
I thought Richi was bad?
He deserves a start mid week.
Not joking.
We are the “Cliff Thorburn” of Premier League clubs.
Apparently that’s okay if you do a couple of keepy uppies according to Carragher
I’m beginning to like Richie. What a wind up merchant. And a great assist.
Haha..