Wolves away was another clean sheet despite Tottenham’s best endeavours, which became a recurring theme when digging into the numbers of the Spurs players involved.
Tottenham gave the ball away endlessly against opposition one struggles to believe will finish in the upper echelons of the Premier League.
I’m no fan of possession stats. ‘Bossing the possession’ is apologist speak for losing. I’m not interested in losing or apologists.
Wolves had 61.05% of the ball, with which they managed to peel off 22 shots, yet only 5 were on target. Spurs gave the still slumbering Manchester City 61.85% of the ball on the opening day of the season.
So suspend your disbelief and imagine what an actual on-song side might achieve with that time and space?
Let’s have a dig, eh?
Just one week ago, Japhet Tanganga was immense against City. A passing accuracy rate of 91%, and against Nuno’s old side, that fell to 64%.
In real terms, Japhet managed just 18 accurate passes in his 99 minutes on the park.
An antidote to this was on hand from Davinson Sanchez who was superbly reliable. A passing accuracy of 94%, with just one weak spot…
Six out of 15 against a side like Wolves isn’t good enough, but otherwise, Nuno’s getting a tune out of the boy. Which is superb.
Dele Alli did well, he’s clearly pushing to win back credibility. Nice move for the pen, excellent conversion. That said, we all need greater evidence that to separate the apologists from the realists. You do understand there ought to be any distance between the two, don’t you?
Oliver Skipp had an okay game, in truth. The broad, at a glance discipline of ‘Total Actions’, showed that Skipp has a sub-par game – against his own numbers.
Steven Bergjiwn was a busy bee, but he was lacking that final touch in virtually every discipline.
Lucas Moura didn’t have his best 77minutes for Spurs against Wolves, that’s for sure/ 14 times he gave away possession. On 7 occasions in OUR half…
Sonny‘s heat map looked like a lawn that needed another few weeks before firing up the petrol mower. The South Korean’s mean average was 83.3%, against Wolves it was 67%.
Clean Sheets FC needs to up their game, before blood is let.