For a couple of months now, it seems thing have gone a bit, for want of a better word, stale. Blackpool and Fulham aside, results have still been good overall but we just seem to lack both killer instinct in front of goal as well as a bit of spark. I can’t quite put my finger on it because everyone is playing well still and we are creating chances but something is lacking.
Van Der Vaart has certainly gone off the boil in recent weeks and he was the one giving us that energy boost and that bit of world class magic. He still doesn’t look fully fit to me and that’s likely why he’s hauled off quite so often. I can’t knock Modric and his play in midfield has been exceptional but his goal return this season is poor. That’s not to say he’s doing anything wrong, if the strikers were hitting the back of the net it wouldn’t be a problem.
I’ve been saying this for a long while, even before the season got underway and I still think we need a world class out and out goal scorer. The problem is, there aren’t many of them around. I’m not sure whether it’s because the way the game is played has changed slightly in the last five or ten years or just the quality of strikers has dropped, but you don’t seem to get your twenty five, thirty goal a season men like you used to. I think Defoe isn’t far off world class on his day and is a top Premiership striker but his inconsistency is becoming an issue. Although Pavlyuchenko is a bit of an enigma, I’d be tempted to give him a little run in the side. Not that I think he’s on Defoe’s level, but just to offer us something different and freshen it up a bit.
It could be that I’m taking too much of a short term view and things will suddenly spark into life again in the next few weeks. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticising anyone and this season has already proved way beyond anything I could imagine, it’s just a little frustrating dropping points that we are more than capable of picking up. This is especially when a top four finish is so crucial to the continued progress and development of Tottenham, and it seems as though the 4th spot is very much there for the taking.
Maybe the Champions League furore has taken the edge off our league form slightly but if that is the case, what the players need to realise is that they won’t be playing in it next season unless they start picking up some points. Even Liverpool aren’t out of the Top 4 battle after their recent good form. I feel like Wigan is a must win game for us now, the problem is I’m not sure it’s a game we will win with a trip to Madrid on everyone’s mind just a few days later…
Good Point there Smabbser.
Forlan for me or Milito..
VDV needs a kick up the arse
Modric, class
Bale, since Injury looks scared to run….
I agree, it has gone that way lately but I think it’s just a small blip. Spurs will hammer a team 4 or 5 shortly. I hope it’s Madrid, but I think it will more than likely be Wigan.
VDV is a boy… learn it!.. its great having someone of that quality.(not to mention modric, absolute magician!!)
Bale is a bit llike that.. needs a week to realise he wont get hurt and hell be flying again
It’d depressing. We’ve had many ‘must win’ games recently if you’re looking to get top 4 but have missed the opportunity to get 3pts on 3 or 4 occasions – all against bottom teams.
If we can’t win the big away games coming up we’ll be 6th, which would be almost embarrassing now…
We’re unrealistically going for players who get £150,000 pew week offers from the worlds biggest clubs! What are we thinking? Where’s our scouting network? Our Demba Ba?
The winning mentality isn’t completed yet. Beating unfashionable teams on a regular basis evades us, and I feel it’s a learning curve too far at the moment, what with the players changing from 442 to 4411 – Knocking high balls to Crouch one minute and sliding crosses to Defoe the next…
We’re better underdogs at the moment, which means it’s good we get Real, Barca then one of the big Prem boys in order to win the CL, ‘cos that’s what we’ve gotta do.
Is that the sound of several people jumping on a bandwagon?? hindsight is a wonderful thing. 6th is not embarrasing either. You lot seriously need stop delluding yourselves.
Jermaine Defoe is a kunt
Don’t understand the comment about Modric’s goal return “this season”. He has never been a quantity goalscorer for us, and only hit eight goals in the previous two seasons combined.
Much as I would love to see him score more goals, that is not what we pay him for.
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