SUPERTOON Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 How many matches have we gone into Half Time in the lead and not conceded a goal in the second half this season? West Ham at home Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 How good were Enrique's 2 balls to Martins From back to front in one pass. When it comes off, people love it. When it doesn't come off, it's 'long ball rubbish'. Can't have it both ways. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 We havent exactly been good at the back ourselves, although Spurs MILES worse. When Berbatov comes on we really need to be 2 up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 We havent exactly been good at the back ourselves, although Spurs MILES worse. When Berbatov comes on we really need to be 2 up. Agreed Lennon will come on and his pace will cause us problems Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Emre needs to stop getting the ball from the centre back, there's then nothing on as Butt's movement obviously isn't the best, meaning the next pass is a long one to the two upfront who are isolated even if they do win it. Also, Enrique's long balls and vision has been excellent, the ball for the goal was probably his worst. Puts it just in the right place to give the forward a chance, good stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedX02 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Spurs started poorly and appeared to get worse as the half went on...it seemed like we had the ball in the attacking end for the last 15 minutes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 How good were Enrique's 2 balls to Martins From back to front in one pass. When it comes off, people love it. When it doesn't come off, it's 'long ball rubbish'. Can't have it both ways. it's "came off" about 3 times, one of them resulting in a goal, so far which isn't a bad return. on the downside it means we will lose the ball a lot and fail to build on possession, tho thankfully the likes of butt and emre have been well positioned to collect Spurs' clearances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 How good were Enrique's 2 balls to Martins From back to front in one pass. When it comes off, people love it. When it doesn't come off, it's 'long ball rubbish'. Can't have it both ways. When you've got a left peg like Enrique it's alreet. When it's just lumped up it's not so good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Spectrum Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 You can see why they're in the bottom 3. Dawson is hopeless. They look shite at the back, absolutely woeful effort. Not helped at the other end by Tainio and Bent barely touching the ball. I'll be staggered if Berbatov isn't off the bench at the start of the 2nd half. Newcastle easily better side without playing particularly well, too many hoofs, but NZogbia (Mot1/2) and Martins too much for them to handle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 How good were Enrique's 2 balls to Martins From back to front in one pass. Quite a lot of the half it seemed like he had nothing to aim at in front of him, although N'Zogbia has been in the game and done alright. Not a fan of Butt, but he's done well. Emre has been busy. The defense has looked very confident, one of the highlights for me is how many times the ball has been hoofed towards our back line and the defender has chested it down and played the ball out. Too many long balls from the full backs though, especially early on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 still think spurs have a goal in them, even tho they've had no good play theyve still fashioned one or two freak chances against the run of play. now that they start commiting players i think we'll create more, hopefully we'll put those chances away. Ditto. They have pace and decent passers of the ball still. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Logic Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 45 mins: GOAL MARTINS. Jose Enrique's long ball is met by Martins who outmuscles Dawson before calmly sloting the ball past Cerny from 10 yards. Newcastle deserve their lead and you have to worry for Spurs if they cannot defend long ball's that would be cleared by most Sunday league defences. From football live commentary, didn't they use to say similar things about us? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Emre needs to stop getting the ball from the centre back, there's then nothing on as Butt's movement obviously isn't the best, meaning the next pass is a long one to the two upfront who are isolated even if they do win it. Agreed. That's part of his game that needs ironing out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedX02 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 "Paul, what would you be shouting at this stage?" "Help!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Spurs improve in the second half so we need to be solid and score again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 How good were Enrique's 2 balls to Martins From back to front in one pass. When it comes off, people love it. When it doesn't come off, it's 'long ball rubbish'. Can't have it both ways. He's had three very good balls for Martins, two of which he caught. Been a half-decent game so far, nothing special really. Zoggy's been good, as has Faye and Beye. A bit disappointed with Emre, he hasn't been bad at all, but he hasn't shined like he can. Saying that, we've dominated the midfield, Jenas has been absolutely shite. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 oh, and faye has been immense so far, spurs players looks frightened to death of him! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I'd have liked to see Zoggy coming onto that follow-up instead of Owen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicago_shearer Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Happy to be 1-nil up of course, but it hasn't been a very good performance. The passing has been sloppy and long-balls/crosses from wide areas are not playing to our strengths. Spurs will improve in the second half (because they can't get much worse). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Players need to move more for Enrique, poor lad seems very one footed and is a bit lost at times when bringing the ball out. 2 great passed though and has done well at the back. This wasn't a dig at the lad btw, he just definitely needs more movement ahead of him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Great first half for us. I don't know why there seems to be some negativity in here. We've outplayed them, outpassed them and outhustled them so far. Nicky Butt has been really good. Emre's a bit quiet but he's had his touches. Similar story with Zoggy but he's been really active and trying to create something. Geremi is slow Anyway, even though we haven't had the best individual performances, the key thing is we've been awesome as a team, especially the midfield and defence. Martins and Owen also look threatening. Owen's link up play is really top-drawer. I echo Keef's statement - Owen's a class act. Oba's looked the most threatening of our players so far and everytime a long ball is hoofed up, we actually have a shot at scoring a goal because of his pace. Great half from the boy. Hopefully Spurs will come out more in the second half because I really do see us scoring a couple more if they have to push on. Lets not concede early and I think we'll be home and dry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eyeball_tickler Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 1-0 up, playing well and owen hasnt scored his goal yet. this could be the end for jol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I'm going to be positive and say we're going to bum them in the face in the second half. Final score: 4-0. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Great first half for us. I don't know why there seems to be some negativity in here. We've outplayed them, outpassed them and outhustled them so far. Nicky Butt has been really good. Emre's a bit quiet but he's had his touches. Similar story with Zoggy but he's been really active and trying to create something. Geremi is slow Anyway, even though we haven't had the best individual performances, the key thing is we've been awesome as a team, especially the midfield and defence. Martins and Owen also look threatening. Owen's link up play is really top-drawer. I echo Keef's statement - Owen's a class act. Oba's looked the most threatening of our players so far and everytime a long ball is hoofed up, we actually have a shot at scoring a goal because of his pace. Great half from the boy. Hopefully Spurs will come out more in the second half because I really do see us scoring a couple more if they have to push on. Lets not concede early and I think we'll be home and dry. His general play is very underrated I find. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 It really is shocking how bad Jol is tactically and organizing a defence. Hopefully a bright start in the 2nd half, get a 2nd goal and kill the game off. At 1-0 it will be nervy, especially with who they can bring on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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