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I agree about there being major question marks about Ndombele's minerals today. He looked like a player that just didn't want to be there. I felt sorry for Dier and Dele who knows what this fixture means.
The biggest problem today though was the Toby / Jan / Davies combo. The 3 most pedestrian defenders in the league who I don't recall winning a loose ball all game. Those 3 experienced campaigners set the tone for the rest of the team.
Sick of Moura at this point as well. He's a Championship level player.
Poor tactics, defeatest tactics can make any team, any squad any player look just that, poor.
As soon as I saw how we were set up, I knew it was going to be a re-run of RB Leipzig, you can go on about individual players, how poor they were until the cows come home.
Our tactics were downright dreadful until (once again) the last 20-30 mins. Then and only then did we change our formation and our tactics before that Jose simply didn't have a clue in how to push back their pressing - he is actually utterly clueless, it was an abomination even of attack v defence principles - if I thought it too outlandish I'd swear he set us up to lose deliberately.
You can't excuse those tactics because in his view you don't have any 'strikers'.
I told this to 80 on the day; after the game, Frank came into the lounge to talk to the faithful chav fans - he was there for about 10 mins and one of the questions he was asked was 'did you expect Spurs to be so negative?', he answered 'yes it's exactly what we expected, we knew Jose would try and see the whole game out like that' - I asked, why did you? he answered 'because that's what Jose does when he can't come up with a winning answer'.
I felt sick, but he was dead right.
Set up like that against a team that presses you non stop and you're as good as dead and praying for a miracle.
As I said before, the loss was inevitable, and so was the humiliating way we lost.
If he keeps doing this we'll be lucky if we finish in the top 10 - although I think the way he has us playing will make that beyond us.
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