More name calling

Having a go at me because he still doesn’t understand his own argument.

I have a bad habit of getting into these argumentative loops where the other person doesn’t understand the implications of their own claim, thus that I’ve already refuted it, so I just keep reposting myself in the thread in desperate hope they’ll catch on.

For one, Spurs are 10th in total touches in the attacking 3rd; two; you're using p90 bc Xavi only has 6.8 90s; three, his relatively high total final 3rd touches in a low-touch side if anything reflects well on his possession. Nothing you said here is evidence against my claim; some is evidence for.

I think this is mostly to do with the fact that he’s in a system with no attacking ideas, especially through the middle, rarely sees the ball, and is underplayed. Not about ‘adapting to the Prem’ at all.

Stop the count

Broadcast just showed a baby in an Arsenal shirt and I just think...parenting is at an all-time low.

On The Athletic FC pod, guy mentioned Chelsea have had an 'easy run' lately with 'Burnley, Wolves, and this version of Spurs.'

The main reason we finished 17th last season was catastrophic lack of squad depth. We fixed that this past summer. Now some of our fans are saying our players are shit so they don’t have to admit they were wrong about last season and about Frank. I see you.

I am very displeased with Tottenham Hotspur.

I think they actually subtracted net time

They better put this VAR time back on the clock

Every single game

Man thought he was a wide receiver

Ref has been poor I think.

Good pressure and a deserved goal. Let’s go now.

That’s unlucky

Kudus machine go brrrrrr Porro machine go brrrrrr

I’m critical obviously, but I’m not gonna make fun of our manager or our players*. That’s not cool. *except Archie’s Gen-Z broccoli haircut

HT: .07 xG and 0% cross accuracy. Perhaps try putting the ball on the fucking grass and passing it to feet fewer than 30 yards at a time.

Lotta places I’d rather be than Spurs’ locker room right now.

What?? Bassey committed the foul if anything!

If we can pull one back by end of half then I’m optimistic we can win, but something has to change fast.

Richy goes down on purpose often to draw the foul when he could hold it up and it’s a bad habit

Wow that was outrageous defending from van de Ven

I love Kolo Muani

It takes 2 passes to carve us open when we press high and when we don’t we’re all crowded in our own third.

Naive high line, van de Ven last-ditch recovery run, so solid.

👀

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM

You can fire the ball into Kudus at any height and he just kills it and holds possession. Amazing.

Archie's haircut is holding him back.

I do not like Xavi on the bench.

If I were Barry I don't think I'd mind if that goal was disallowed.

This one is for the nerds. And the Bentinha skeptics. profspur.substack.com/p/football-p...

I'm sorry to be a jerk about this (not really) but I spent all last season fighting people who claimed 'the high line' and reckless tactics were responsible for our defensive woes, and now we have the conservative tactics people wanted and our defense is worse with better players available.

Is this very common cultural and political orientation for Nigerian immigrants, deeply seated in English imperialism, possibly a matter of US influence?

Seems pretty straightforward to me that we’ve dropped a lot of points this season by not challenging possession in the edge of our box. We should know from Sonny that low-xG shots from distance are not so low for eg Morgan Rogers, Eze, Vitinha, Kang-in, etc.

Yesssssss

Well after adjustments this turned out to be wrong. Yet another xG 'loss.'

As I've said, 'risk' vs. 'pragmatism' is a terrible way to frame and understand whether a manager has good tactical ideas and the nature of their tactical ideas, but it's not a bad way to frame and understand whether executive leadership have good ideas about how to develop a football club.

A consequence of the Premier League getting more competitive, particularly with post-Covid financial developments in world football, is that fans are overcorrecting from 'well actually [traditionally lower / mid-table side] are no easy game] to 'we shouldn't expect Spurs to control this game.'

I usually say 'US American' (USian is fine), but 'American' to describe the US is wrong and stupid, because the Americas are not reducible to the US.

Perverse to say this after the week we've had, but we actually outgunned them on xG, which I think reflects some intent to play foot ball.

From 'he's gone down very very dramatically' to 'potential red card check going on' because you're a troll instead of a match commentator.

This match comm is the biggest wanker, like Ekoku levels. 'This is a big step up for them.' Just trolling on air.

GK on his horse for that one.

Idiot that this kind of thing would ever be a penalty. Shot from point blank and it's the only way a human being can lunge to block the ball. The arm will always go into that kind of position. Pinging it at an arm is not worth a pen.

Let's fucking go, let's get something out of this. Fuck these match comms and fuck PSG.

Not a foul. He sat down.