Spurs vs Liverpool match thread

[Muddled]

First half musings.

1/ The referee is a ******.
2/ Our defensive line has been horrendous.
3/ Our midfield has been horrendous.
4/ Henderson is lost and doesn't know if he is playing on the right, or in the centre.
5/ We are devoid of any movement.
6/ Carroll does not know how to exploit space.
7/ We are still in this game. Somehow.

I'm turning to the mind bleach.

[cream]

Where the **** is downing?

[JohnDoe]

Fair referees = 6 points from Sunderland and Stoke. Facht.

[dom9]

People can blame the ref, but the fact is we have not had one single shot.

And the defence looks awful.


And there is no midfield.

[BringbackBiscan]

take the blinkers off, they've been by far the better team.

Did I say they weren't?

[DannyMan2006]

Come on Kenny. You ****ed it up for the first half, show your stuff and make a difference at half time.

Spurs came at us at a really fast tempo and we couldn't deal.

I have noticed that Adam in particular does struggle with decision making when players are right on his case. A lack of understanding between the team shows through then, especially when we rely on him to pick the lock.

We needed to start much faster and we've been caught sleeping.

[kris90210]

Carroll has been dreadful again today. There was one point where he passed the ball to Downing on the left and immediately sprinted backwards to offer himself for the pass instead of actually getting into the box. This pretty much sums up the way we've played today.

Must be so frustrating for Suarez. We don't have a player that on the same page.

[Kenneth]

Cuntish ref

If we had been pulling Spurs all over the place and forcing desperate tackles, Spurs would have 10 men and a **** load of bookings. He's a cunt for being so card happy, but we';re brought it on ourselves by being the ones making fouls.

[Gaz]

As poor as we've been we're still only 1 goal down to a world class finish by Modric

Although with all the yellow cards the ref has dished out in the first half it's going to be very difficult for us to get back into the game

Normally you'd expect with the pressing game Spurs have been playing they'd be the team committing more fouls but instead we're committing more trying to win the ball back

[McDermotX]

Where the **** is downing?

Off looking for that end product that still is nowhere to be seen.

In fairness, he's not seeing much of the ball anyhow

[DannyMan2006]

We're only 1-0 down, we can count ourselves lucky and man up.

[kev776]

Easy to sort out:

Flannigan on for Coates
Kuyt on for Carroll

Flann---Carra---Skittel----Enrique

Kuyt---Henderson--Lucas--Downing


----------------Luis

Tell Kuyt to protect Flann, wake up Lucas and Downing and get Henderson to get into Parker/Modric.

And above all, calm down and stop flapping.

[Exiled_red]

People can blame the ref, but the fact is we have not had one single shot.

And the defence looks awful.


And there is no midfield.

I don't think we're blaming the ref, we have been awful, but the referee is also hindering us

[McDermotX]

Kenny talking to ref at HT

[tsb]

We'll get a chance or two in the second half - just need to believe and make sure we finish them.