Poch began with his wretched, proven to suck badly, Diamond Of Despair (denoted in red above).
Given how poor our results have for the last 9 months, and that this is a formation that the gaffer has preferred for 53% of his games, the jury is back in. This simply isn’t working.
What happened, is that Bayern ran riot, pulling and stretching the four players involved, so when half time came, over a third of the team were physically and mentally exhausted.
When the ref’s whistle blew to signal the start the second half, with the scores at 1-2, both sides should have come flying out the traps.
The visitors did – but Tottenham looked like Poch had made our lot spend the interval doing press-ups.
Let’s look at where Spurs really suffered, where we lost the ball. Look at that ellipse shape in red, in the Losses graphis above.
That was Bayern München making merry, stretching that Diamond of Despair, creating an incredible about of space – the size of a dog track around the middle of our park.
Harry Winks and Dele Alli were supposed to be core players. They ended up being part of the problem.
As ever, it took the Argentine 49′ minutes to abandon the diamond.
In the last 20 minutes, the gaffer threw on Eriksen, Moura and Lamela into his 442. By which time, Poch may as well come on himself.
What a mess.
