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We are average but evertom are worse..both teams bottling big chances

Omg matic is abaolutely shocking, misplaxing every other simple pass

Absolute double standards with the ref fornthe handballs

He ready was last time but we still prevailed. Have to do so again. Real anxiety around this game. Fans and players

Cant believe we are not 2 up already. Yes both were technically not that easy to score but players of their quality really should

what is a clean sheet?

lack of concentration. if cahill just jumps he will get there before bertrand. but he prolly was just thinking, nah its the end of the game and its a dificult header, he will blast it anyway if i just give him a bit of a bodycheck. similar for the first one. romeu fell down so no one felt obliged to mark him once he stood up. Two absolute fluke goals but decent defending would have prevented them.

what a finish that was from him for the opener. making it lookso easy but booy he hit it perfectly and it was just inside the post. quality strike. he is so good, it doesn't even surpise you when he does things like that. however it also does not suprise you that he squard the ball into nowhere when he had a free shot.

ture, but that is not necessarily an obstacle He got lucky and his finishing right today, which is why he scored other than that he did not doo much more than usually. one time in the first half he produced 3 turnovers in 1 minute and i thought he had lost it again but then there was this inch-perfect pass to hazard and i knew he was gonna be fine today.

we won't. tottenham goal difference will be much better than ours anyway but I doubt the title will come down to goal difference. However yeah, we are conceding incredibly soft goals. Giroud, lanzini, bertrand. Even the romeu one was some lucky goal that would have been prevented if someone had actually marked him. Also both tottenham goals were absolute flukes. good players can pull this off when u give them too much space. other than that we completely dominated southampton and the 4-2 flattered them. just as it flattered us on saturday.

cahill probably our only player so strong who can force in a nothing ball while taking a completely mistimed costa bicycle kick to the hip without evening noticing. Yes he might not be the best 1v1 defender but he is an absolute force in the air.

the ref is so infuriatingly micromanaging all the time cahill still scores you fucker lee mason

It really is. has been for ages now. not only the setpiece itself but rather the marking afterwards. there are always free players roaming around our box when the ball gets blocked first

every challenge by us where our player clearly gets the ball is blown as a foul by that stupid knobhead lee mason

is such a bald cunt again. giving every 50-50 against us. having one decent ref for one match obviously was enough for the season.

Well I think all three young men are more than competent and a back three with world class defenders like Luiz and Azpi in it can afford one understudy. Also that is a difference. We bought Hazard because we had not had a winger with pace and dribbling ability since robben had left in 2007. Now we have a number of excellent defenders.

A player like Zouma, Cahill or van Dijk might have stopped that header simply because they are so much bigger than Ake and the ball would might have hit them but other than that there was nothing he could do about it. These kind of finishes work 1 out of 10 times. Was an absolute fluke goal so it is harsh to judge Ake on that. I am a fan of VVD but I am not sure we need him with Zouma, Christensen, Ake coming through and Cahill, Luiz and Azpi still in their best years.

Lets hope this was not a Kalas and after keeping the best striker in the league relatively quiet in a huge match, he won't disappear in oblivion. Zouma - Ake - Christensen. Atleast two of them have to become regulars here. Pls don't fuck this up

Well well well what a fucking thriller that was watched almost the whole game on the go on my iphone while taking various trains and busses. I swear i crossed at least six streets without looking up as my eyes were pinned to the screen. That was kinda dangerous but totally worth it First of all Conte's team selection was absolutely brilliant. I really doubted his ambitions regarding this game when resting Hazard and Costa, but he totally knew what he was doing. Ake, Willian and Michy really gave their all even though the latter's output was not perfect. Willian simply the dead ball king and we know, he hates Tottenham so he had to play^^ We dominated the game up to their first goal and really frustrated them. After their equalizer I really was a bit anxious as they started rolling, but apart from their goals, which were fluke goals, really difficult finishes that end up wide 9 times out of 10, we contained them and make them play backwards all the time. Also our pressing was fine with some really nice steals which we should have done more of. They will say 4-2 was harsh but Spurs were actually lucky we did not punish their turnovers more resolutely, Alonso and Costa should have scored in the end too. Great finishing really makes a difference. If we continue this and finish as strongly as we did in our 13 games winning patch we will win the double. A couple of special mentions have to go to 1) DAT Matic goals. A few times he takes on these strikes and this one was the best he could ever produce. What a hit, inch perfect in the top corner. Has to be goal of the season. The commentators even criticized Conte for taking off Pedro instead of Matic for Cesc but boy did Matic repay that. 2) Nathan Ake.Great Wembley debut from the little man. defensively resolute, standing his ground against bigger men. He virtually completed what is known as a Kalas in contemporary sports history. Absolutely bossing a rare start in a vital game having the best striker in the country in his pocket only to be never heard of again afterwards^^ Other than that KTBFFH and win the fucking double!

ok resting hazard means we are basically surrendering this tie and going all out for the league, interesting tactic by Conte. I hope we are not choking big time now. I wonder if Tottenham will rest anyone. As for us, we are not gonna score much without hazard. however it might also give us freedom as our play is pretty much dependant on him as well as confounding any man marking tactics by them. I still tink it pretty clear that we will most definitely lose without him.As for Costa or Bats, I think both are pretty much useless bc of lack of form and rhythm.

4 is not exactly a representative sample. Also our performances vs them in the past few seasons have nothing to do with our next game vs them. Yes they are a good team but they have nothing to play´for. Score first and their resistance will be broken. We simply have to win and we should if we want to win the title. This is the exact type of game a title winner should win with eyes closed or with a hard fight or in whatever fashion but simply has to win no matter what. A home game vs a midtable side with nothing to play for. This is not a matter of quality but of attitude. And when winning the title is not enough of an incentive and the pressure is too big this squad simply does not have what it takes to win the title.

Even though it is a cup competition. IMO for the title, the performance for once is more important than the result. Yes Spurs will get a psychological boost by beating us. But we can only improve performance wise and get our confidence back we do not need to fear the title run in. Also Spurs have the selection dilemma, they got a hard away game coming up next week and either will put inall eggs in one basket or try to play 3 hard games on aper with the same 11. We have a straightforward looking game vs Southampton coming up, so we can easily play a full strength team. Whatever that might be.

Realistically and on current form they should beat us easily. My hope is that they are traditionally incredibly shit at Wembley, so we might have a chance. Wanyama and Dembele will harrass our midfielders again so we should not even try to win the midfield battle. Just play Fabregas and let him pump his quality passes up the field. Not very subtle but you just can't contain them. if you try to play in a cultured way on the ground they will just run riot on them. Short passes through the middle just invite them into your half. Just play it over the top in the space behind their onrushing wingbacks and midfielders. Let Hazard roam around so they can't man mark him. Ofc Diego is totally useless so we could as well put Batshuayi, Solanke or even RLC up there, holy shit we could just sign free agent Marouane Chamakh andplay him up front and he would make more of an impact than Costa.

We won't but we don't need to. Lukaku will tear us to shreds(either that or he will go into hiding whilst some guy no one has ever heard of will become the reincarnation of Pelé) . All we need is 90 points. Tottenham can't reach that no matter what and we are more than capable of pulling that of provided that everybody is fit. If not it will get cagey but for the title race, Alonso and friends will get injections so they will be fit. I think Tottenham will get to 1 point and then tail off and we will win the league away at West Brom. However, win the league or not we have to tactically be way more flexibleand cope with injuries over the course of the season. Can't expect to be so lucky with almost no injuriesnext time around. When teams press us and attack Hazard when collecting the ball we almost got no chance and there are better teams out therein europe who will exploit that.

Need some huge balls from Conte now. Maybe even a change in formation or at least starting personnell if Alonso does not get fit again? Big calls to make.Conte is a very good manager. The coming weeks will show if he is also the best.