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Panicking Tottenham fans need to remember how Chelsea and Manchester City started last season and CALM DOWN
Twelve months ago, Pep Guardiola's men were nailed-on champions and Antonio Conte's job was on the line — and don't even get me started on Spurs' 'Wembley Curse'
Darren Lewis
ByDarren Lewis
22:30, 17 SEP 2017
Tottenham suffer frustrating goaless draw against Swansea
So, we're really going to do this all over again, are we?
We're really going to forget about last season, when some were crowning Manchester City champions in September and a few starry-eyed souls were debating whether they’d go the season unbeaten?
We’re really going to forget Chelsea’s defeat to Arsenal twelve months ago, which had us all concerned they would struggle to finish in the top four, let alone win the title that eventually became theirs?
Some of the panic surrounding Tottenham ’s failure to break down Swansea on Saturday is laughable.
Dele Alli and co ran themselves into the ground trying in vain to beat Lukasz Fabianski... (Image: Reuters)
It’s September.
Spurs have played five Premier League games, three of them at home — one of which was against the title holders.
They battered Swansea, who deserve credit for riding their luck and keeping the bus parked firmly between the sticks.
To suggest there are reasons to be fearful over this result is ridiculous.
Moan, by all means, if Spurs were insipid, struggled to create chances or were mentally dining out on last Wednesday’s Champions League home win over Dortmund.
Not when they’ve come out of the game with 26 goal attempts and 75 per cent possession.
Not when Harry Kane has hit the crossbar as part of an onslaught from the home side.
Not when Mike Dean has to shuffle off the pitch embarrassed that he has denied them two penalties - one when Martin Olsson clearly handles in the box, the other when Jordan Ayew clips Serge Aurier.
It may have been the Day of the Long Knives down in the lower leagues, with managers falling like naive college kids in a horror movie, but Spurs fans in particular should know that, under Pochettino, it really isn’t how you start in the Premier League title race.
And as for this Wembley nonsense — enough already.
On their day, Swansea are a good team in their own right. They held Chelsea at the Liberty last season and beat Liverpool at Anfield under then-new boss Clement in January.
For all their issues, Spurs are still only five points off the top of of the table (Image: Action Images via Reuters)
Spurs right-back Kieran Trippier put it best afterwards as he waved away another Wembley question.
“It’s nothing to do with Wembley,” he said. “Every game we have played here we have looked comfortable, but it’s about having that clinical edge in front of goal. It’s just not happened, again, on this occasion.
“We have played very well, it was just the chances that we did not put away.”
The Twitter tacticians were out in force on Saturday night, questioning Pochettino’s team selection. Questioning the Argentine for dropping Serge Aurier, and for leaving Ben Davies and Mousa Dembele on the bench.
Quite rightly, the Spurs boss was incredulous at the charge.
Pochettino refusing to worry about Wembley Factor after dropping two more points in temporary home
Does it not occur to his critics that he might know a bit more than they do about the players’ physical condition?
Does he not have a duty of care to his players to manage their schedules to ensure they remain in peak physical condition?
Few managers in the Premier League play the same eleven in every single game these days.
It wasn’t disrespectful to Swansea to rest one or two. It was a belief in the quality of his squad that Saturday’s overall performance - if not the result - justified.
For all the shock and awe of Manchester City’s surge to the top, they are still just five points ahead of Tottenham.
As Pochettino’s squad continue to get used to their new surroundings, they have still been beaten only once.
Is it really all over bar the shouting just yet?
Panicking Tottenham fans need to remember how Chelsea and Manchester City started last season and CALM DOWN
Twelve months ago, Pep Guardiola's men were nailed-on champions and Antonio Conte's job was on the line — and don't even get me started on Spurs' 'Wembley Curse'
Darren Lewis
ByDarren Lewis
22:30, 17 SEP 2017
Tottenham suffer frustrating goaless draw against Swansea
So, we're really going to do this all over again, are we?
We're really going to forget about last season, when some were crowning Manchester City champions in September and a few starry-eyed souls were debating whether they’d go the season unbeaten?
We’re really going to forget Chelsea’s defeat to Arsenal twelve months ago, which had us all concerned they would struggle to finish in the top four, let alone win the title that eventually became theirs?
Some of the panic surrounding Tottenham ’s failure to break down Swansea on Saturday is laughable.
Dele Alli and co ran themselves into the ground trying in vain to beat Lukasz Fabianski... (Image: Reuters)
It’s September.
Spurs have played five Premier League games, three of them at home — one of which was against the title holders.
They battered Swansea, who deserve credit for riding their luck and keeping the bus parked firmly between the sticks.
To suggest there are reasons to be fearful over this result is ridiculous.
Moan, by all means, if Spurs were insipid, struggled to create chances or were mentally dining out on last Wednesday’s Champions League home win over Dortmund.
Not when they’ve come out of the game with 26 goal attempts and 75 per cent possession.
Not when Harry Kane has hit the crossbar as part of an onslaught from the home side.
Not when Mike Dean has to shuffle off the pitch embarrassed that he has denied them two penalties - one when Martin Olsson clearly handles in the box, the other when Jordan Ayew clips Serge Aurier.
It may have been the Day of the Long Knives down in the lower leagues, with managers falling like naive college kids in a horror movie, but Spurs fans in particular should know that, under Pochettino, it really isn’t how you start in the Premier League title race.
And as for this Wembley nonsense — enough already.
On their day, Swansea are a good team in their own right. They held Chelsea at the Liberty last season and beat Liverpool at Anfield under then-new boss Clement in January.
For all their issues, Spurs are still only five points off the top of of the table (Image: Action Images via Reuters)
Spurs right-back Kieran Trippier put it best afterwards as he waved away another Wembley question.
“It’s nothing to do with Wembley,” he said. “Every game we have played here we have looked comfortable, but it’s about having that clinical edge in front of goal. It’s just not happened, again, on this occasion.
“We have played very well, it was just the chances that we did not put away.”
The Twitter tacticians were out in force on Saturday night, questioning Pochettino’s team selection. Questioning the Argentine for dropping Serge Aurier, and for leaving Ben Davies and Mousa Dembele on the bench.
Quite rightly, the Spurs boss was incredulous at the charge.
Pochettino refusing to worry about Wembley Factor after dropping two more points in temporary home
Does it not occur to his critics that he might know a bit more than they do about the players’ physical condition?
Does he not have a duty of care to his players to manage their schedules to ensure they remain in peak physical condition?
Few managers in the Premier League play the same eleven in every single game these days.
It wasn’t disrespectful to Swansea to rest one or two. It was a belief in the quality of his squad that Saturday’s overall performance - if not the result - justified.
For all the shock and awe of Manchester City’s surge to the top, they are still just five points ahead of Tottenham.
As Pochettino’s squad continue to get used to their new surroundings, they have still been beaten only once.
Is it really all over bar the shouting just yet?
