by Isco Benny Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:44 am
L r dd wrote:I think you are somewhat over negative to an extent.
People knock all the players at United especially midfield...but just 'cos Anderson hasn't had the best time of it, it doesn't make him an average player. He cost 20 mill and he was one of the highest rated youngsters out there. Giggs and Scholes on their day are still as good as anyone.
It was a great game and Spurs played their part. For excuses/reasons stuff to be hopeful about. Lennon was clearly knackered. Palacious came back from Honduras? and maybe was also somewhat fatigued. And Modric was out. Not to mention last year we lost to Pool 1-4 but we're clearly a better team than them also. One result doesn't say it all.
Clearly Spurs are not up there with Man Utd but top 4 is still possible. 5 games 4 wins having played Man Utd and Liverpool is a great start.
But i must say that's how you deal with a bad decision. Spurs crumbled and blamed a penalty decision for FIVE damn goals last year. Scholes got sent off for a really harsh yellow but the team responded by playing even better.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Total credit to United in how they responded to the sending off. It was us who were holding on at the end.
This is what the confidence in really believing you are "the best" can do to you. Our players/club/fans just don't have that belief, and it shows.
I don't want to look at excuses, we were simply beaten by the better and more confident side.
Despite having won 4 on the trot, we still looked like we were scared of United, which is the worry. Perhaps the loss of Modric affected the players more than they ever gave on, but that in itself is a sad indictment.
As for your midfield - the way Arsenal dominated that area of the park the other weekend gave me false hope. I should have known better than to have thought they'd play that badly twice in a row.
If we can finish 5th this season, that would be fantastic.
But with Man City seriously in the mix, a 6th place finish is more realistic.
Won't be enough to hold onto the likes of Modric though.
Let's hope we MIGHT have learnt a lesson from this weekend - we can't go full on head to head against a side like United by playing so naively.
Yes it was entertaining end to end stuff, but if we want to break the top 4,
we need to play tighter and be more BORING