Reguilon and Lo Celso still out, Dele to make the bench and Aurier a 50-50 call with a muscle injury.
I'd forgotten this was today. Going to work at 3pm. Won't know the result until I go on break at 7pm. I will be one right grumpy bastard for the rest of the evening if we don't advance. COYS!!
Team sheet is in: Starting XI: Lloris (C), Doherty, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Davies, Hojbjerg, Ndombele, Lamela, Bergwijn, Lucas, Son. Substitutes: Hart, Dier, Rodon, Tanganga, Winks, Sissoko, Dele, Kane, Vinicius
Interesting to see Kane on the bench. It shows what a gamble it was to play him Sunday and how desperate Jose was to get the win.
What a clusterf*ck! 3 goals conceded in 7 minutes! I'm not watching this crap anymore. See you all in August. Hopefully Jose will be gone by then.
No need for analysis here. Same old effing bonehead players making the same old effing bonehead gaffes. All you have to do is pick any one of: Winks Sanchez Doherty Sissoko Lloris And match with any of: Gave the ball away Played the opposition on-side Let in a soft goal Switched off in defense Gave away a needless free kick
I won't complain about the game, itself ... it sounds like the only Spurs match in a while that I would've wanted to watch (as much as I'd've hated it). At least we tried playing football. Granted, we apparently don't do it terribly well anymore, but hey ho. But I will say this: the odds of me being satisfied with starting the 2012-22 season under Jose Mourinho are reduced to almost zero. I just can't see us winning anything this year. And even if we sneak the League Cup, I'm not sure it's worth it. To be sure, I say that fully aware of how absurd that is as the fan of a club that's won nothing for over a dozen years - and who's desperate to win anything. There's not an ounce of entitlement in it - I'm not suggesting we deserve silverware of any kind. I just want to enjoy football again.
It certainly speaks to the core DNA of the club, that hundreds of millions of pounds on players and coaches, a billion dollar stadium and at times legitimately the best starting eleven in the Premiere League all to – maybe, but probably not given the opponent – equal the trophy "haul" from a decade ago?
Looking at the draw we would get squashed by City anyway* * Posted for future ridicule given the two upcoming City games.
Speaking of City, despite the quality in their side (and remember they are doing most of this without De Brunye and Aguero, their equivalent of Son and Kane), you rarely see them give the ball away, while watching us, we give the ball away all over the pitch. Three of the five goals came from us giving the ball away in our defensive third. To me that's coaching. Pep drills it into them every training session (and City aren't the only team that do a good job of retaining the ball). What does our guy do? I don't see any evidence that this team is being coached by anyone. It's hope Son and Kane play a blinder (which was the case last night, the 2 of them did enough for us to win the game and Kane didn't come on until the 2nd half). Like the old baseball refrain of "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain". For us it would be: "Son and Kane or loads of pain".
Warren Spahn - despite being in the Hall of Fame - is the most underrated baseball player of all time. That is all.