After a deeply disappointing North London derby against Arsenal on Sunday afternoon, Tottenham Hotspur have another quick turnaround in the fixture list as we face Dinamo Zagreb on Thursday evening in the second leg of our Europa League Round of 16 clash.
Thanks to a brace of goals from Harry Kane in the White Hart Lane leg of the affair, to put it bluntly, we will have to be at our pragmatic and defensive best under manager Jose Mourinho to not increase the margin of victory and comfortably put ourselves through to the net round.
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The problem there being of course, just as we thought maybe the tide had turned and we would get our Premier League form back on a proper track, we continue to prove that we can be so inconsistent that I can’t be alone in fearing that home soil Dinamo will make up for their very unimpressive showing in the first clash.
Mourinho will again rotate for this one, but our pool of players shrinks as Eric Lamela serves the first of his two game ban, Giovani Lo Celso is still rated as doubtful for this one and even if Son Heung-Min does recover quite quickly from his muscle injury, you can’t see him even playing a part on the bench in midweek.
We’ll have to see if Mourinho has some unexpected good news when he gives his press conference later in the week.
I feel much better know… Safe in the knowledge that I was completely right to be pessimistic……
Shocking result, inexcusable.
I have always said I would judge JM on results, and that I was willing to put up with the negative football if it delivered results.
Well, with us crashing out of the EL, throwing away a very promising position in the process, I will be the first to say that JM doesn’t deserve to manage Spurs if this is the outcome of his management.
This was a shocking performance of his own doing. It wasn’t good enough.
I am gutted to see us crash out of a competition we could have won, and which could have represented a back door into next year’s CL. With this result, we are firmly on the outside looking in, and unless JM pulls off a masterstroke and gets us back into the top 4 by the end of the season, I just don’t see how he can stay in the job.
Horrible.
We need to get shot of the dinosaur and make Hojbjerg captain immediately. We need someone on the pitch to kick butts, Lloris might be a good club captain but he doesn’t lead on the pitch.
So it was that clear cut penalty not given in the first leg that did for us in the end, plus 2 once in a season goals ( the other one was also pretty good) and a great goalkeeping performance. Who would have believed it, except seasoned Spurs supporters. Just saying.
Your defence of the indefesible is admirable Stan, I would be happy to have you at my back in a fight. 🙂
Goodnight everyone. Let’s hope tomorrow is brighter.
Hard to imagine that JM can keep his job after the end of this PL season. The only progress the team is making is in getting progressively worse, not better. Now they are playing some of the worst football any Spurs team has played in decades. I’d be happier to see JM sacked today, but I’ll be satisfied if he’s sacked at the end of the season. But he must go. He must go. I’d just as soon see it done in the most humiliating fashion possible. but go he must.
For THFC to be humiliated in Zagreb is simply beyond the pale.
Does anyone still have a half full glass?
Still, there’s always the Carabao cup final to look forward to. City must be wetting their sky blue knickers at the thought of facing Spurs, Jose and the Great Defensive Tottenham Wall Of Shite!
I may be wrong but I get the impression that the players do not want to win for Mourinosaurus. I honestly think they have had enough of his useless tactics and him not taking any responsibility. Who would want to be loyal to such a useless, conceited has been. The players look utterly dejected.
Well well . I have attempted to excuse Mourinho dealing with the group of players he has mainly been left by Poch .
However after tonight’s adject defensive performance ( how many times did we see our excellent striker Kane in the penalty area ? ) I reluctantly have to join the ‘ sack him in the morning ‘ argument .
Not one decent bloody shot on goal for the entire 120 minutes !!
It’s going to be absolute carnage at the end of this season. Several players will be calling their agents as soon as they get home. There is zero chance of us making the top six and zero chance of Kane wanting to stay. I think Sonny will put those contract talks on hold. He must be fed up of playing as an auxiliary defender. Jose has to go now and we have to get someone in who may just make our best players think about staying
I’ve just been on the Spurs website. Unbelievably Jose hasn’t been fired yet
José Mourinho: DL’s greatest gift to the Gooners who live to see Spurs humiliated. This was a humiliating loss. There are losses and then there was this. Send José away on a rail and covered in tar and dusted with feathers. On a rail, I say. Whatever sins any of us may have committed, none of us deserve this.
DH…..that’s probably what DL thought he was doing by bringing in the dinosaur, what he really needed was to bring in somone who could show them how to enjoy playing football.
Ironic isn’t it TK, we are still going to be the ones humiliated on the back pages tomorrow morning despite the Gooners losing their home tie.
Simply terms, its just not working out.
Arsenal may have lost their home tie, but they advanced. All that will matter to the Gooners is that they advanced and Spurs were trashed in Zagreb by a team whose manager was sentenced to prison, and our team hardly had any forward movement. The silver lining is that José cannot survive this. If he isn’t sacked, I cannot imagine that any member of our squad would want to stay. I’d really like to see Mourinho being taken out in shackles.
Did post earlier but post was lost.
I’ll say it again aaahhhh fekkk.
They played football, we played some strange game where you pass it backwards, then kick it up in the air and lose possession, these are an abject crowd of average players with little or no passion, who played like complete strangers in a Sunday morning kick about.
Who needs to go
Aurier
Sissoko
Sanchez
Winks
Dier.
Lloris
Finally and most definately MOURINHO.
To think some of this talentless, passion less crowd are actually going to represent their countries next week, Shame on them. 🙁
To think
Re Mourinho being responsible for this defeat, he told BT Sport that he warned the players about being complacent before the game and at half time. He also made attacking substitutions in the second half which ran onto extra time. He blamed the result on the attitude of the players and there might be something in this. My feeling is that they just did not think DZ was good enough to score such exceptional goals and thought that they could either hang on to their lead or score the one goal that would see them through. I think they also played with a fear of something going wrong, which was confirmed by the exceptional quality of the DZ goals.
Who do you think plants that fear in their minds Stan then propagates it with his negative tactics that focus on how the opposition can hurt us rather than how we can beat them?
The only positive I can take from the game is that it was good to see Gio back on the pitch, he did at least try to bring a bit of creativity to our play.
This article pretty well sums things up:
https://www.football365.com/news/spurs-europa-league-exit-jose-mourinho
Ah I forgot, all of that( having average players) doesn’t matter, Coz we have a lovely stadium for Michael Buble to play in next year.