There have been a couple of occasions on which Loftus-Cheek has received the ball on the width of the box and has just run it to the touchline without an idea of where or when to release it.

Great ball from Jorginho, Loftus-Cheek should have made something of that.

This first half is maybe a perfect example why Conte despite being a top coach simply won't ever match any top club's ambitions, he's great as the underdog but this style is simply never going to cut it in the long run.

He willingly surrenders so much space and time without contesting and while he did manage to win the league like that, in Europe that style simply isn't viable. For the long term, Sarri was much more important for our club in comparison to Conte even if we did win the league once.

Brilliant half. If we had a striker, we would be out of sight. 2nd half will be alot harder.

We're still lacking options up front. Need a striker who can play off Sterling 

Just now, PloKoon13 said:

There have been a couple of occasions on which Loftus-Cheek has received the ball on the width of the box and has just run it to the touchline without an idea of where or when to release it.

Tbf with the numbers Spurs have parked in the box there isn’t much to do when ur in that position, best to go back and start again 

Just now, PloKoon13 said:

There have been a couple of occasions on which Loftus-Cheek has received the ball on the width of the box and has just run it to the touchline without an idea of where or when to release it.

His decision making has been terrible. Like most of our attackers. Sterling barely in the game 

Deck you Anthony Taylor everytime we try to

counter it’s a tactical foul .. how dumb are these refs to not see this ???

Still no yellow on that bad foul on RLC

2 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

whats else annoys you just out of interest? ill try not to bring it up constantly..

Some just can't give it a rest we didn't buy him. 

6 minutes ago, Sindre said:

Kante & Jorgi have been brilliant together.

Jorginho had a very shaky start but has grown into it. Unlucky with that ball to RLC. 

1 minute ago, just said:

Jorginho had a very shaky start but has grown into it. Unlucky with that ball to RLC. 

No doubt but he's been brilliant since minute five or six.

Rough 1st 5 minutes - but overall best 1st half in quite some time.

Absolute brilliant first half from us, top performances all across the pitch. 

Great half from basically everyone. Just such a shame we can't get that second goal but if we can keep this up surely it won't be too long  

1 minute ago, Gol15 said:

This first half is maybe a perfect example why Conte despite being a top coach simply won't ever match any top club's ambitions, he's great as the underdog but this style is simply never going to cut it in the long run.

He willingly surrenders so much space and time without contesting and while he did manage to win the league like that, in Europe that style simply isn't viable. For the long term, Sarri was much more important for our club in comparison to Conte even if we did win the league once.

I have to disagree, Conte's legacy of the 343 is still living on right now. I'm pretty sure Tuchel is only playing it now because we had the spine for it, I don't think he had ever used this formation in his career previously. Lamps did the same as well from time to time whenever he needed a solid system other than his own.

Decent first half! Koulibaly is a machine, Jorgi having a good one, everyone clicking a lot more! Keep it up for the second half!

Brilliant half of football from us. Please keep it up in the second half, don't come out like you have taken a few sleeping pills like you usually do.

3 minutes ago, rtwelch said:

His decision making has been terrible. Like most of our attackers. Sterling barely in the game 

I disagree about Sterling barely being in the game. His link up play, movement and strength has been excellent. 

Koulibaly so far seems to be the perfect replacement for Rudi. He liked scoring against Spurs too 🙂

Really enjoyed that half..

 

Fantastic intensity in the 1st half.  We haven't been too creative but we've dominated Spurs all half.

Really interesting to see the defensive set up shift between a back 4 or the standard back 3 so fluidly as Reece has been perfoming a really intense man marking job on Son.  Followed him everywhere.

But sad to see Jorginho once again dominated by a Spurs side that haven't managed to score against him 5 out of the last 6 times he played them but the oracles here did predict it would happen.

Do Fofana, Frenkie or Auba get into this starting 11?

Love Cucurella's progressive thinking. Always looking to pass forward or through the middle.