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Originally Posted By ecnirp98
Great game, excellent win considering all the players we were missing, Tottenham are a dangerous team and had a decent game plan to hit us on the break.

I though We were abit naïve leaving so much space behind us when we went 1-0 up, maybe we should have sat back and let Tottenham have a go and pick them off, we seemed to just play into their hands.

Rhys had a really good game, he had allot of pressure on him playing against probably the best PL strike partnership in Son & Kane, for a PL debut, that was an excellent performance.

That's an important marker we put down, Tottenham will be challenging this season, now we need to go on beat CP to put the pressure on our rivals, hopefully a few more first teamers will be back soon so we can rest a few of the current team.


Not sure we know how to sit back, especially without VVD

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excellent performance to go with the result.
well done but praying for some consistency

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Originally Posted By Snakeye
Firstly a great game to watch with 1st place at stake, thoroughly enjoyed it. The performance was very good, maybe the 2nd best performance of the season behind the Atalanta masterclass. Spurs could of scored with the Bergwyn chances of course but I am looking at our players and the passing, the breaking up of counter attacks, the running was excellent. My man of the match is Jones, the lad has in my opinion cemented his place in the side now, he has a certain swagger about him and confidence reminiscent of a seasoned pro. We need to kick on now and grab this opportunity by the throat and win games to create a bigger gap and we have winnable games coming up to do just that.


Indeed!

But one thing we need to improve - and that fast - is taking our chances. How many missed opportunities didn't we have yesterday? Both Mané, Salah and Jones couldn't hit a barn door from 3 yards! And the power in the shots then! Almost like passing the ball to their 'keeper! And always straight at him! Frustrating to watch, which makes it even sweeter that we somehow managed to get the win in the end. smile

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Great win! I'm more nervous this season, it'd just seem like a missed opportunity if we don't win it and all Klopp's work would be undone if Mourinho wins it. Anyone but him..

They've got Leicester and Wolves now so a real chance to open up a gap at the top. Feels like if anyone puts a few wins together they'll pull away.

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Originally Posted By Liverotto
Originally Posted By ecnirp98
Great game, excellent win considering all the players we were missing, Tottenham are a dangerous team and had a decent game plan to hit us on the break.

I though We were abit naïve leaving so much space behind us when we went 1-0 up, maybe we should have sat back and let Tottenham have a go and pick them off, we seemed to just play into their hands.

Rhys had a really good game, he had allot of pressure on him playing against probably the best PL strike partnership in Son & Kane, for a PL debut, that was an excellent performance.

That's an important marker we put down, Tottenham will be challenging this season, now we need to go on beat CP to put the pressure on our rivals, hopefully a few more first teamers will be back soon so we can rest a few of the current team.


I think our first half's performance is so good that no one want to change the tactics which may result in a change of momentum of the game.

We had a lead and we all knew that Spurs wants to take back the control of the game.
The team had a little gamble there to try to continue their first half game play and dominate the game to score another goal. It is unfortunate that the gamble didnt pay off and Son has scored in his first chance. (which in my view, should have been ruled out by VAR if that goal was scored by Mane/Salah.)

I wont say this is naive to continue our gameplay, especially the lead was in very early of the game, it is not easy to sit back and defend for the remaining minutes.

Besides, R.Williams played last night, I dont think we could really defend Son/Kane for the rest of our game if Spurs took control of the game and gave us a lot of pressure.


Good points, 'sit back' is probably the wrong word to use, it's more to not over commit and leave large gaps at the back when we are 1-0 up, which is what we were doing, we knew Spurs tactic was to exploit that space with fast balls over the top to Son & Kane with players breaking with them, which is how they equalised (and missed a few), I think we just got caught up in the moment, and they equalised quickly, if our defenders would have dropped off a few yards, there is no space to hit and break into to catch us out, especially when we do not have VvD reading the game and cut off those passes.

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I wish son played for us he would be awesome in our team with the chances he would get on the break


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Originally Posted By Stanley Park
I wish son played for us he would be awesome in our team with the chances he would get on the break


I think Kane would have been a better addition because we have Mane in Son's position and even Jota. Kane would be better swap with Firmino

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Originally Posted By EnergisedReds
Originally Posted By Stanley Park
I wish son played for us he would be awesome in our team with the chances he would get on the break


I think Kane would have been a better addition because we have Mane in Son's position and even Jota. Kane would be better swap with Firmino


Wouldn't swap Firmino for anybody.

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