PreSeason Friendlies 2015

Sugarlumps

Breen must have never seen Walker play.

KingdomYid

DubPerryman wrote: »

Not sure if I want us to win this.... How much more fitness are we going to gain from another match tomorrow - three days before the PL starts.

As far as I know we will play again tomorrow win or lose as there is also a 3rd/4th place game.

Sugarlumps

Nice touch by Ali.

tippspur

Soft goal to give away.

tippspur

We play two games anyway no matter what happens tonight don't we.

Sugarlumps

Yes.

DubPerryman

KingdomYid wrote: »

As far as I know we will play again tomorrow win or lose as there is also a 3rd/4th place game.

Sh*t... The commentator said the winners of the two games go on to play each other tomorrow. I assumed we'd get yo go home then!

dodgygeezer

Rose at sea again. Alli looks some prospect. Dreadful earlier miss by Lamela. Still some tidy play at times....

DubPerryman

Great to see Harry Kane get straight I'm to Ramos when he butchered Eriksen. Great passion!

Sugarlumps

Both commentators are fúcking morons.

dodgygeezer

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Both commentators are fúcking morons.

Ha ha

Sugarlumps

Ali looks very comfortable, also covers a lot of ground.

Sugarlumps

No threat, just like last season really. Utd must be quaking.

mass_debater

Lloris would've saved Bales shot

2nd Row Donkey

mass_debater wrote:

Lloris would've saved Bales shot

Sandra (Redknapp) would have saved that.

mass_debater

http://fat.gfycat.com/ThirdSnappyGrunion.webm

2nd Row Donkey

Uninspiring stuff.

1st half was awful. Defensively all at sea as usual.

Kane starved of any real service.

Delle Ali looks the part though.

Sugarlumps

It's nuts, that were left with a solitary striker so close to the start of the season.

There was zero attacking threat, bar Lamela and Eriksen's long range effort. Pathetic stuff, is no one capable of getting to the byline and crossing the ball in? Madrid were just going through the motions.

Wimmer was pretty solid, I expect him to eventually overtake Vertonghen, who's a ponderous oaf. Ali looks most likely to walk into the team. The sooner Trippier replaces Walker the better, he's clinically dead.

Season hasn't even started, and I can pretty much predict how it'll end. There's little free flowing football, no excitement.

Eagerly await our annual last ditch attempt to dip our toe in to the transfer market.

Milan await later.

Devo from Dublin

Poxy Match.

Same old same old...

Where on earth was Wimmer and Toby for the first goal?
Ball just clipped into the mixer, and Rose is covering and Dier our DM is the only other player in there???
Vorm must have had concrete boots on, ball was only clipped in, not whipped in...shouldve come and punched it clear and took James head off in the process!!
Dier i feel done well considering,
Alli looks very good already.
All others very pedestrian, even though i know they had to do so because of the schedule, it just was very mundane.
Can only imagine what this evenings performance will be like.

Vorm

Trippier - Fazio - Jan - Davies

Mason - Bentaleb

Winks - Eriksen - Carroll

Chadli.

Wheres Berahino!!!!!!

mushykeogh

Only saw the second half. We looked pretty dire. Although anytime we have a good pre season we tend to have an awful start in the league, heres hoping the opposite is the case this season!

irishmover

For the first time in a long time I actually agree with this guy.. Why the **** are we playing these games so close to the new season.

This is the time to be finalising things at our own training centre and not playing in an exhibition tournament in ****ing Germany. If we don't lose by atleast 2 goals against United I'll be shocked.


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/harry-redknapp-slams-tottenham-pre-season-plans-ahead-manchester-united-game-1514084

Devo from Dublin

irishmover wrote: »

For the first time in a long time I actually agree with this guy.. Why the **** are we playing these games so close to the new season.

This is the time to be finalising things at our own training centre and not playing in an exhibition tournament in ****ing Germany. If we don't lose by atleast 2 goals against United I'll be shocked.



http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/harry-redknapp-slams-tottenham-pre-season-plans-ahead-manchester-united-game-1514084

WOW WOW WOE, Moi????:eek:

2nd Row Donkey

Poch said yesterday that 'they' tried to get the United game moved to a Sunday kick off.

What a joke. 2 games in 24 hours. Training in Munich on thursday morning and flying back afterwards with 1 day before the season opener.

irishmover

Devo from Dublin wrote: »

WOW WOW WOE, Moi????:eek:

Haha no Harry Redknapp in the link!

DubPerryman

I think you're all being a bit over-critical.

A VERY young Spurs team played against an experienced Real Madrid team who parked the bus and looked to break on the counter. Benitez had that Madrid team focussing on keeping a clean sheet and making sure everyone was doing their duty.

On the other hand, Poch was testing the kids. He wasn't too concerned about the result.

Sure look at the midfield in the first half - it was Dier, Alli and Eriksen up against Bale, Modric and Kroos. Yet the half-time result was only 1-0?!!

The only way Poch could find out if Dier had what was needed in the DM, was to put him up against the best in a friendly. The same with Alli too. He knows those two won't be playing against Bale, Modric and Kroos when it comes to the competitive matches.

I only had two real concerns;

1. Vorm for that goal. Where's the Vorm who was one of the best shot stoppers in the PL a few years back?!

2. As well as RM defended, Kane didn't get a sniff! We need a speedy winger or someone to get in behind the defence of our opponents.

Sugarlumps

Madrid were just coasting, that's why the score was only 2-0.

Vorm is a decent keeper, but like any outfield player, needs to be playing on a regular basis.

There hasn't been any pace in the squad for some time, this is why we struggle against most sides. We won games by the narrowest of margins last season. Average teams find it easy playing against a lone striker teamed together with no pace.

2nd Row Donkey

DubPerryman wrote:

. He knows those two won't be playing against Bale, Modric and Kroos when it comes to the competitive matches.

Sure they'll only be up against these lads in 10 league games next year. Be grand.

Depay/Schweinsteiger/Herrera
Ramsey/ozil/wilshire
Hazard/Matic/Fabregas
Toure/Silva/Sterling
Henderson/Milner/Coutinho

Dublin Spur

the result and performance mean nothing really

anyone remember when we hammered Roma 5-0 at the lane in Aug 2008 and then didn't win a league match until November

my main issue is with the fact that we have been sent to play 2 matches back to back 2 days before we go to Man Utd

utter madness - but that's what you get when the global branding objective comes before the football team

Devo from Dublin

regarding the timing of the matches....

We went to Australia straight after the season ended, so we we got back into preseason, he had 4-5 weeks uninterupted going through everything from fitness to shape etc... now these matches are a stroll and glimpse of where we are.

I doubt Poch is over the moon with the timing but he has had a good stretch of time without matches.

Do we really think we'll win or draw at OT this saturday anyway???

Be honest, although its a good time to play them there, i'd bite the arm off them to get a draw!!!!

DubPerryman

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Sure they'll only be up against these lads in 10 league games next year. Be grand.

Depay/Schweinsteiger/Herrera
Ramsey/ozil/wilshire
Hazard/Matic/Fabregas
Toure/Silva/Sterling
Henderson/Milner/Coutinho

I've highlighted the players I would put on par with Modric, Kroos and Bale. Only two of them actually play together.

Plus, Dier won't be our first choice DM. He was only tested against the big guns to see if he might be able to drop in as cover at some point during the season or in Europa matches.

Dublin Spur

I could be wrong here but I imagine we got the call to play in this tournament after the Premier League "big boys" turned it down due to the week that's in it. In fairness we do look like the odd one out in the company of Real, Byern and Milan.

It's a awful decision to play these games this week but if we get a point or better at Man Utd on Saturday I'll stand corrected.

Sugarlumps

McGee; Trippier, Fazio, Vertonghen, Davies; Dier, Bentaleb; Onomah, Lamela, Carroll; Chadli

Ormus

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Sure they'll only be up against these lads in 10 league games next year. Be grand.

Depay/Schweinsteiger/Herrera
Ramsey/ozil/wilshire
Hazard/Matic/Fabregas
Toure/Silva/Sterling
Henderson/Milner/Coutinho

Dier and Alli?

Bentaleb and Mason are still our first choice midfield pairing, and we're likely to buy someone.

Dier and Alli are decent prospects and will get gametime, but are unlikely to be regulars this season, albeit one of them may start on Saturday.

Ormus

Sugarlumps wrote: »

McGee; Trippier, Fazio, Vertonghen, Davies; Dier, Bentaleb; Onomah, Lamela, Carroll; Chadli

Only 4 first choice players there, and I suspect they'll only play 45 mins.

Be interested to see how Chadli does as a striker, he has the look of someone who could do a job there, has the physique and decent finisher.

tippspur

http://freefootylive.net/spursgame/
decent enough stream for tonight's game.

Sugarlumps

Ormus wrote: »

Only 4 first choice players there, and I suspect they'll only play 45 mins.

Be interested to see how Chadli does as a striker, he has the look of someone who could do a job there, has the physique and decent finisher.

I like Chadli even though most seem not enthused.

Lloris, Vorm, Alderweireld, Rose, Wimmer, Walker, Alli, Dembele, Eriksen, Mason, Winks, Kane

Sugarlumps

Chadli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sugarlumps

Bentaleb still has that habit of giving the ball away in dangerous positions, without looking who's in behind.

Sugarlumps

Lamela swinging at fresh air.

tippspur

Great goal from Chadli!!

Sugarlumps

McGee has acquitted himself.

DubPerryman

So much room for our players though we don't seem to be creating enough clear chances. We need to increase the tempo in the final third.

Sugarlumps

Lamela is so uninspiring. Acres of spaces, no will to attack. Milan are gash.

DubPerryman

I don't think Dier is cut out to be a DM.

Sugarlumps

Dier turns like a tug boat, he doesn't have the attributes to play in that position. Not his fault, looks to have been lumped in there.

Sugarlumps

Top class!

Sugarlumps

Trippier is such a step up on Walker, lovely assist.

tippspur

2-0 Carroll..great finish.

Glebee

Christ. Milan must be poor. What sort of team have they out???

DubPerryman

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Trippier is such a step up on Walker, lovely assist.

Looks like Walker will be starting on Saturday though.