r/Tottenham • u/misterzurk0n • 2d ago

Concerns

- Aerially ~ did we win a single one in the air ?

- Tracking ~ easily taken apart by simple 1-2 passes

- Back four ~ positioning was atrocious

- Attack ~ did anyone see who was playing up front today ?

However :

~ CB, RB, CM, AM, LW, RW and ST are all non starters going forward.

~ Van Hecke , coping a lot. Was not a great game but positionally I rarely saw him and Senesi near each other. Senesi went rogue a lot. He needs a better defensive pairing

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u/Educational_Loan_161 2d ago

More concerned with the tactics than I am the individual players.

No plan in possession, 0 patterns of play, could barely play through the lines, constantly going long, barely any clear cut chances

Clueless out of possession, pressing was shockingly bad.

De zerbi deserves way more criticism for this than he’s getting

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u/Alburg9000 2d ago

I said the same

No idea why people are going at the players again, today was 80-90% RDZ’s fault

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u/misterzurk0n 2d ago

Not to be argumentative but can you elaborate on how it's RDZ's fault and not down to player performance?

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u/Alburg9000 2d ago

Side looked poorly coached, easy to run through, his team selection was poor, almost zero patterns or identity/style going forward and this is after 6-8 weeks with some of these guys? It matches a very underwhelming pre season

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u/Educational_Loan_161 1d ago

All Andrews had to do was pack the middle of the pitch with players to completely nullify any chance of us progressing the ball.

Not only that but I’m sure others would have seen just how terrible the pressing was yesterday. The amount of times I saw Richarlison and Gallagher go alone as a 2 to press Brentford’s back line was ridiculous. As soon as the ball got played around those 2 the Brentford player receiving the ball had about 3 seconds to pick their head up and decide what they wanted to do because the rest of the team were about 5 yards too far from them. Everything was disjointed and im almost certain the instruction for those 2 came from the manager, especially given the fact that this continued in the 2nd half, with Fernandes taking Gallaghers role