Tottenham 2-0 Brentford - Thursday 2nd December, 2021

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Last 3 Meetings
05/01/2021 - Tottenham 2-0 Brentford (EFL Cup)
25/09/2000 - Tottenham 2-0 Brentford (EFL Cup)
18/09/2000 - Brentford 0-0 Tottenham (EFL Cup)

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[Danny]

Fortunate OG for Spurs to score

[Danny]

Should be a yellow card for feigning head injuries

[Danny]

Both sides haven’t been great but we’ve been worse. Spurs best chance really the Son effort from outside the box that was fairly easily saved but they’ve got themselves into a lot of other dangerous positions that were they more competent going forward they’d of probably scored.

We’re playing as we did against Everton, need to stop the sloppy passes and start making runs in behind their defence .

Genuinely mad of anyone who thinks Spurs would be better off without Kane, no Kane today and this would be an even more boring game than it is.

[Danny]

Introduction of Baptiste has really fired us up, a midfield outlet that is willing to run and pass through the lines.

[Danny]

And an easy counter to make it 2-0 Spurs. They've been threatening to score a goal for a while but have failed to actually do something meaningful until now. Canos easily bypassed and Goode doesn't have the pace to match Reguilion.

[Danny]

Injuries have really effected our results the past month or two and it's made us quite predictable and easy to manage. We were never really in the game today and the fact is all Spurs needed was one goal to win fairly comfortably.

Fernandez doesn't have the same passing range, intelligence and technique that David Raya has and that means we aren't able to bypass the opposition press as we would like to do. On top of that we have a slow back 3 and Kristoffer Ajer is the one who provides speed in allowing us to push higher up the pitch but also in making diving runs through the lines to help penetrate the oppo's box. Charlie Goode was his replacement today and Charlie put in a very solid performance but his lack of pace was exploited for Spurs' second goal.

No Dasilva, Baptiste only just come back from an injury, Wissa just coming back from an injury. It means our midfield and forward line is predictable as there is no one to provide competition. Baptiste and Dasilva specifically are runners, they take the ball and break through the lines. When it's just Janelt, Norgaard and Onyeka it is too defensive a midfield and whilst Janelt and Norgaard both have a good passing range they don't have the dribbling capacity.

Wissa was on the bench tonight as he's not fully fit but he was signed to play in a front 3, or give us that option. Having Wissa and constantly having Baptiste or Dasilva available means that our attack is multi-dimensional. As it is without them or with them on the bench we are starting games on the backfoot.

What is frustrating is that the first goal was a very unfortunate own goal to concede, pure luck that it bounced back off of Sergi's face. Then you have the goal which was class, Reguilion down the wing, Son's pace to get on the end of it, the pass through to set it up. But outside of that, even though Spurs created opportunities and moments that could have been finished by better players, they didn't actually create many, if any real goalscoring opportunities away from that. And if we were able to put pressure on this Spurs defence then chances would have followed, but we didn't, they didn't, and Spurs ran out extremely comfortable winners.

I can see why they done it against us tonight but if they sit back like that against sides who are better going forward than we are then they will lose leads they gain this season, we struggled with them when they pressed and put it on us, but there were plenty of opportunities for a better side to get back into that game.

Looking forward to the new year when Baptiste, Wissa, Ajer and hopefully Josh Dasilva will all be fit/returning to first team action in Dasilva's case.

[Storts]

21 hours ago, Danny said:

Injuries have really effected our results the past month or two and it's made us quite predictable and easy to manage. We were never really in the game today and the fact is all Spurs needed was one goal to win fairly comfortably.

Fernandez doesn't have the same passing range, intelligence and technique that David Raya has and that means we aren't able to bypass the opposition press as we would like to do. On top of that we have a slow back 3 and Kristoffer Ajer is the one who provides speed in allowing us to push higher up the pitch but also in making diving runs through the lines to help penetrate the oppo's box. Charlie Goode was his replacement today and Charlie put in a very solid performance but his lack of pace was exploited for Spurs' second goal.

No Dasilva, Baptiste only just come back from an injury, Wissa just coming back from an injury. It means our midfield and forward line is predictable as there is no one to provide competition. Baptiste and Dasilva specifically are runners, they take the ball and break through the lines. When it's just Janelt, Norgaard and Onyeka it is too defensive a midfield and whilst Janelt and Norgaard both have a good passing range they don't have the dribbling capacity.

Wissa was on the bench tonight as he's not fully fit but he was signed to play in a front 3, or give us that option. Having Wissa and constantly having Baptiste or Dasilva available means that our attack is multi-dimensional. As it is without them or with them on the bench we are starting games on the backfoot.

What is frustrating is that the first goal was a very unfortunate own goal to concede, pure luck that it bounced back off of Sergi's face. Then you have the goal which was class, Reguilion down the wing, Son's pace to get on the end of it, the pass through to set it up. But outside of that, even though Spurs created opportunities and moments that could have been finished by better players, they didn't actually create many, if any real goalscoring opportunities away from that. And if we were able to put pressure on this Spurs defence then chances would have followed, but we didn't, they didn't, and Spurs ran out extremely comfortable winners.

I can see why they done it against us tonight but if they sit back like that against sides who are better going forward than we are then they will lose leads they gain this season, we struggled with them when they pressed and put it on us, but there were plenty of opportunities for a better side to get back into that game.

Looking forward to the new year when Baptiste, Wissa, Ajer and hopefully Josh Dasilva will all be fit/returning to first team action in Dasilva's case.

Think this is pretty fair. We were fairly comfortable without really doing too much. Could start to see a bit of progress though in the pressing and movement. And looked pretty solid 

[Danny]

25 minutes ago, Storts said:

Think this is pretty fair. We were fairly comfortable without really doing too much. Could start to see a bit of progress though in the pressing and movement. And looked pretty solid 

You must have had a nose bleed finally seeing your boys successfully aggressively pressing after these couple of years