OK, I'm gonna start this so we can make our predictions. We'll see if Fulham have their best players or not. Fun tidbit from the urban dictionary: Cottager A homosexual man who uses public toilets as a venue for the clandestine act of wanking or sucking off another homsexual man.
Well played Jose - his moaning from last Friday about the Villa match potentially being called off put the pressure on the PL to rearrange this fixture. I have to agree with Parker, if it were a bigger club, there is no way that the fixture would have been rearranged on 48-hours notice.
Team sheet is in: 1 Lloris 24 Aurier 6 D Sánchez 15 Dier 3 Reguilón 8 Winks 5 Højbjerg 17 Sissoko 28 Ndombele 7 Son Heung-Min 10 Kane Substitutes 2 Doherty 4 Alderweireld 9 Bale 11 Lamela 12 Hart 20 Alli 27 Lucas Moura 33 Davies 45 Alves Morais After all his moaning, Scott Parker has picked his regular XI - football managers do a lot of moaning...
To be fair, I think his point was that had he known of this match, he would've rested some of these starters in the Cup, so they'd be fresher for this one. He's gonna start his best eleven in the Prem, regardless.
And there it is. Effing hell. At least it's come earlier than our usual late concession. Of course, it's not just us with time to get a second.
Spurs (3.27) 1-1 (0.99) Fulham— The xG Philosophy (@xGPhilosophy) January 13, 2021 So. Many. Missed. Chances.
10 points dropped from winning positions against who? Newcastle, West Ham, Palace, Wolves and Fulham. Part of it is Mourinho with his shite team selection and tactics and part of it is the loser mentality of the players.
Shitty mentality within the whole organization. Score a goal or go up a goal and then sit on the lead regardless of how many minutes are left to play. It's maddening. Take a look at the past 20 league winners and you'll notice over the season their averages for GF is 2.17 and GA is 0.79. Spurs are averaging 1.76 GF and 0.94 GA. Only one team in 20 years have won the league with stats like that: Leicester. 65% of all winners have a GF greater than 2 and 80% of all winners have a GF less than 0.9. Seems to me the base goal for each game should be to score a minimum of 3 goals with conceding 0 goals and not, score a goal and sit on your arse til the final whistle.
It seems nuts to rely on two players for all your goals when you have proven goal scorers on the bench. Better to play with three defensive midfielders, I guess.
Only agree with the first part of this. Generating chances wasn't a problem. Burying them in the back of the net was.
I don't get the team selection at all. Sissoko as a forward with Moura and Bale on the bench.? And once again it was poor defending from Sanchez that led to the goal. Parker got his subs spot on- Lookman and Kamara made a difference, ours barely touched the ball. This looks a lot like the Man U version of Jose-Ball. And our lack of a ball-playing midfielder continues to kill us. To allow a team like Fulham to have 60% possession on our patch is diabolical.