Tottenham vs Liverpool prematch 1/11/08

[Dirk]

Our passing needs tightening up a bit.

[Thomo123]

Still struggling for width, too much through the middle.

[JohnnyH]

Save Pepe.

[James Dean]

Bit too cautious here maybe?

 

 

That's a difficult save Reina. Well done not giving a rebound.

[Hand Shandy]

Save Pep.

[James Dean]

Masch has had some bad passes.

[Hand Shandy]

C'mon boys, nick another one before half-time and really knock the stuffing out of them.

[Dirk]

Dossena delivers such a decent cross. It's a pity he can't defend.

[JohnnyH]

Early goal. The rest has been slow and fairly poor. We're not under any major pressure but our final ball has been weak and on a few occasoins a decent pass could have seen a good chance and possibly a goal. These are here for the taking. Maybe Babel should come on early enough. Certainly the conditions are not helping.

[snez1]

That's not really been a good half of football from us. We've just done what we had to really after the early goal.

 

Dosena has been good. Keane's just doing the easy thing and not taking any chances, Riera has been poor since the first 5 or 10 minutes and Masch and Xabi need to tighten up the passing in the midfield.

 

They've been no threat what so ever like, but we should be going for another goal or two to kill it off because all it takes is one slip/misplaced pass on this pitch and it's 2 points dropped.

[Hand Shandy]

Well that was pointless Stevie...

 

Decent first half though. Need to put them under more pressure and they'll crack. There are more goals here if we want them.

[Captain]

Tottenham have had one shot on goal. We'll win this.

 

I'd bring on Babel early in the second half.

[Paul Don]

Who is the Andy Gray wannabe co-commentator?

[GJM]

Very impressed with how we have dealth with this half. Completely snuffed Spurs out in the first quarter, not just the goal, but the amount of work we put in to deny them anything and then making intelligent use of the ball in posessin too. Riera has been excellent, save for one moment when a pass would have been the better option than running into his marker.

 

Been impressed with Dossena too, although that might be just relative to his performances a little while back.

 

Agger, Mascherano and Keane not had great 45s, but we've been easily in control. Expecting them to push on more in the second half, so should be plenty of space for Babel to exploit so would think we'll be seeing him on for Keane after 10-15mins.

[JoeyKop]

midfield needs to get control of the game and kill off spurs. too many longballs. settle down please.

[James Dean]

Well that was pointless Stevie...

 

Decent first half though. Need to put them under more pressure and they'll crack. There are more goals here if we want them.

 

I've seen him get the ball 9 out of 10 times in those situation. His timing is usually superb.

[OnizukaEikichi]

keane should take more long shots. He seem to take way too many touches and delays until people close him down.

 

We are going to grind out 3 points from the way this is going. Shit weather as well btw.

[snez1]

Cocknobs. Think my stream on the brilliantly name iraqgoals.com has gone :(.

 

Setanta on Justin it is.

[Guest simon]

Very impressed with how we have dealth with this half. Completely snuffed Spurs out in the first quarter, not just the goal, but the amount of work we put in to deny them anything and then making intelligent use of the ball in posessin too. Riera has been excellent, save for one moment when a pass would have been the better option than running into his marker.

 

Been impressed with Dossena too, although that might be just relative to his performances a little while back.

 

Agger, Mascherano and Keane not had great 45s, but we've been easily in control. Expecting them to push on more in the second half, so should be plenty of space for Babel to exploit so would think we'll be seeing him on for Keane after 10-15mins.

 

Are you watching the same game?

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Edited November 1, 2008 by simon

[Hand Shandy]

I've seen him get the ball 9 out of 10 times in those situation. His timing is usually superb.

 

Really? I think you're being generous with the percentages there...

 

I was talking more about getting a needless booking in the last two minutes of the half by diving in on a centre-half clearing the ball from by the touchline halfway inside their own half.

 

In these conditions, all he's got to do is mistime one more tackle (and be honest, he has been known to mistime the odd tackle...) and he's off.

 

As I said, pointless.

[Acid]

Yea my stream has gone too. Usually does for half time though, check back in 5 minutes.

[GJM]

That's not really been a good half of football from us. We've just done what we had to really after the early goal.

 

Dosena has been good. Keane's just doing the easy thing and not taking any chances, Riera has been poor since the first 5 or 10 minutes and Masch and Xabi need to tighten up the passing in the midfield.

 

They've been no threat what so ever like, but we should be going for another goal or two to kill it off because all it takes is one slip/misplaced pass on this pitch and it's 2 points dropped.

 

I think Riera's been excellent. Other than a silly moment when he should have played the ball, he's kept posession and used the ball really well. He's not seen as much of the ball in the last 20, but I think that's partly because they have tried to close him down a little quicker.

[Hand Shandy]

Cocknobs. Think my stream on the brilliantly name iraqgoals.com has gone :(.

 

Setanta on Justin it is.

 

It's working fine for me.

 

Are you using Channel 5? Try refreshing the page.

[James Dean]

Really? I think you're being generous with the percentages there...

 

I was talking more about getting a needless booking in the last two minutes of the half by diving in on a centre-half clearing the ball from by the touchline halfway inside their own half.

 

In these conditions, all he's got to do is mistime one more tackle (and be honest, he has been known to mistime the odd tackle...) and he's off.

 

As I said, pointless.

 

I agree. I'm just saying, I think he was a 100% certain he would get to it 1st.

[snez1]

Channel 1, seems to be working now.

 

Riera does disappear from games very often. You won't see him for 25 minutes then he'll pop up and do something great. Hope he's more involved this half.