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Credit to Walcott. Really good.

Lavia class.

JWP balls.

Mara did very well.

Good play Che.

 

Unfortunately we've thrown 2 points away there with some poor defending. Far too deep for the last two goals. Need DCC to step up now.

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These are the kinds of game that can set the tone for the rest of the season. They kept fighting at 3-1 and earned that. I hope the belief gets carried forward into the next games. 19 chances and 7 on target also tells its tale.

Also, Elyounoussi, never again.

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Great comeback, useful point but probably needed more.

An infuriating team. Turn up for certain games and then go missing for others

2nd & 3rd goals were down to having a makeshift CB in AMN who wasn't great aerially. (Just bad luck and he did his best out of position and was ueseful bringing the ball out)

Walcott excellent again and deserved his goal. Good to see 1 go in for adams, the kind he scores when he doesn't have time to think about it.

Sulemana may be more use as a impact sub running at tired legs, as that worked well today.

My main ire is reserved for Elyounessi, horribly lazy causing their first. A coward before their second (bottling a shot when well placed and passing to Adams). Just generally like playing with 10 men.

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Great to see Alcarez wanting to play forward as his first thought, Sula being so direct when he gets the ball. All outfield players in Spurs half for majority of that second half. At last for the back 3/4 of that second half we looked like a decent football team 
 

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Even when we were 3-1 down I didn't think the team deserved to get trashed today - they played pretty well, in spite of having to deal with one of the best attacks in Europe with one CB for 70mins.

The late penalty was a farce - the ref wouldn't have gotten out of there alive if it'd been the other way around - but I think we earned a bit of luck with the guts we showed.

This game won't be the reason we go down. But the details - three goals conceded from three shots on goal - are certainly a massive contributory factor: we can't expect to limit sides to zero shots on target, and we can't expect to have to score twos and threes every week to get something from matches.

Nice cameos from the subs for a change. Mara, Sulemana and Alcaraz will be good players in a few years. Probably for someone else, though.

Can't complain about the fight shown. At this stage, that's all most of us hope for - don't go down with a whimper.

 

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