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DAILY TOTTENHAM: Friday 7th February 2025: LIVERPOOL SEMI SHAMBLES FALLOUT and pre Villa chat
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They say its the hope that kills you and if so, us Spurs fans have been killed a thousand times over! Daily Tottenham's Chris Mervyn and Ollie Kasabi wipe away the tears from a performance where senior players went AWOL - and try to muster enthusiasm for our FA Cup trip to Aston Villa on Sunday!
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Introduction to Daily Tottenham Podcast
00:00:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello, hello, hello Spurs family. Welcome to another episode of Daily Tottenham, your one-stop daily podcast for all things Tottenham Hotspur on the Global Sports Podcast Network. Good morning, good
Analysis of Tottenham's 4-0 Loss to Liverpool
00:00:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
evening. I'm Chris Mervyn and we are talking about that embarrassing pig of a showing by the team last night in our humiliating loss to Liverpool, losing 4-0 in the first day of the night's match in the second leg of the semi-final.
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Before I introduce my co-hosts, Ollie, I'd like to say a few words. There's something I want to get off my chest. and I've seen it way too much this season. Senior players, where are you? Where is your passion? Where is your want and will to win? Where is the leadership on the pitch? And where is the pride and in the badge? Having the absolute honor to put on the white shirt of Tottenham Hotspur Football book Club. Too many times this season you have gone missing, you have disappeared in big games. In fact, even in not so big games. In the words of my brother in a message he sent me this morning,
00:01:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got more fight in me and would play better than 80% of the team and would turn up and play for opacity after the match in payment, not the 75,000 or 100 grand a week. No shots on tar but target, limp, without ambition, scared. To dares to do well, there weren't many daring and very little doing in that match. Ollie am
Challenges with Senior Players
00:01:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I right? Am I still emotional after having to endure yet another full storm and death by misguided hope? Talk to me.
00:01:33
Oliver
You are 100% correct. We have been, all season, we've been let down by the senior players. And I don't really remember a time where they've turned up when we needed them, really needed them.
00:01:49
Oliver
And we've we've just been um relying on the likes of Archie Gray and Berger, which is embarrassing. And what once again, Tottenham have let us down.
00:01:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Too much weight on their shoulders, buddy. 100%. The home midfield. I mean, Sar's a young lad, so I'll try and get him out of it, although he was anonymous as well, to be honest.
00:02:09
Oliver
Yeah.
00:02:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we'll talk about whether we should be started at him in a minute. But, I mean, Sonny is a captain.
Evaluating Son's Captaincy
00:02:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not working. He hasn't got it on the pitch anymore.
00:02:20
Oliver
No, maybe maybe off the pitch, he has it.
00:02:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's on the wane. Yeah, great around the club.
00:02:23
Oliver
ah deaf But not and on on the pitch.
00:02:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lovely guy. Fantastic.
00:02:26
Oliver
You want a guy that will get the team going, get the crowd going. You want someone to steam into somebody just to show the team that that you want to win this game.
00:02:37
Oliver
And Son isn't that guy.
00:02:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Well, the first, you know, whatever level you play at, whether it be, and whatever sport, whether it football, rugby, your first contact with the other team, the other player on the other team is is important.
00:02:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It sets a tone for the rest of the match.
00:02:52
Oliver
Yep.
00:02:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we were just limp. I had the whole, in Benton Corps, the worst one, Biss Hummer.
00:02:56
Oliver
Oh, that.
00:02:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I say Biss Hummer because I don't know who he is. Where's he gone?
00:03:02
Oliver
That that midfield, I haven't seen three players play that badly in midfield for us for a long, long time. Ben Tancor, that might be the worst I've ever seen him play, but Sumar gone missing in a big game once again. And so I think he was he was playing them in front of them.
00:03:21
Oliver
Bessemer and Benton core And I just feel like he he wasn't able to do that row at all And I don't think he's been asked to do that ever before I just think we should have played burg well because he gets stuck he gets stuck in
00:03:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
nope yep just about to say that mate exactly you're saying yeah say it from there he's got to drive forward no one was driving forward into that space and don't get me wrong
00:03:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
we're going to talk about negatives of Spurs now, because that's all we've got currently. We've got a few positives, Bugball is one of those. so But in general, yes, we were up
Defensive Woes and Lineup Struggles
00:03:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
against it. um You know, it was a really, it's a very, very strong team Liverpool, but matches, of football matches and one-off matches are there to be won.
00:03:59
Oliver
Yeah, it it was pathetic.
00:03:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you've got to go out and try and get it. And that's what players, you know, should be doing. It really was, it really was. So starting line up wise, we had Kingsley and Gull. I mean, there's been quite a lot of murmurings now that He...
00:04:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
well, we've... our other go-keepers are, you know, pushing and coming back, aren't they? So...
00:04:18
Oliver
Yeah, the car is back in training.
00:04:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Yeah, so it's going to be interesting what happens there. He had a... he didn't have ah the greatest game, in my opinion. He was a little bit nervy.
00:04:26
Oliver
He made a couple of decent saves, but he gave away the penalty um for fouling Nunez.
00:04:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:37
Oliver
It wasn't brilliant. It wasn't terrible. But yeah, the pressure is on.
00:04:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
The pressure's on. The pressure's on. I mean... in the space of four or five games, we've managed to make him start to live from looking and pretty looked like a number one for us, then now looking like probably a number two for us.
00:04:50
Oliver
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's just symptomatic of where we are as a club, I guess. the It's not great. um So starting back four, obviously started with Danzo, a new signing, and he I thought he was relatively positive for his first game.
00:05:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought he did quite well, to be fair.
00:05:07
Oliver
He got the team up the pitch a few times, which was good. He was one of the only players doing that, and it shouldn't have been him because he needs to be at playing at centre back. But he looked quite good, got got stuck in, made a few decent blocks.
00:05:21
Oliver
um He looked really quick, which is good to see. um And yeah, pretty positive for him.
00:05:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:27
Oliver
He didn't you didn't have a bad game, really.
00:05:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, his he's gone and changed it up a little bit from what was previously. as a said I totally understand it because he needed that pace and he was worried about Liverpool. Of course it was.
00:05:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I just wonder if he could just done, kept this defence exactly the same as it was because it was relatively settled. It was in that.
00:05:47
Oliver
yeah it was settled yeah think
00:05:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
um but Yes, it had issues, but it was settled for a few games. But I understand that once, it's a big sign-in. Well, any sign-in's a big sign-in for us anymore. Any sign-in's a sign-in.
00:06:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he was put in there to do a job, and it fundamentally did quite well. um So ah he came out with some some positives, I think.
00:06:08
Oliver
I don't think Andrew can win though, really, because if if if he plays Danso and we lose, then people will say, oh, you should have kept it the same.
00:06:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
There, I've put that, yeah.
00:06:16
Oliver
If he kept it the same and we lose, people will say, oh, you should have played Danso.
00:06:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:21
Oliver
You signed the guy.
00:06:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:21
Oliver
So you can't really win, to be honest.
00:06:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly, exactly.
Andrew's Managerial Challenges
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we'll talk about Andrew, you know, will he ever be able to win anything? As in when the fans over sometimes, there's certainly is a large section of them.
00:06:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
and We'll talk about that perhaps in the second section of this podcast. But I mean, going back to the team there, I mean, we obviously had Spence and Grey and Ben Davies as well.
00:06:46
Oliver
Yeah.
00:06:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Spence again I thought did pretty good. He was caught out a few times but that's because he was really trying to push the team on because we were sitting so far back um and let letting them come on to us and there would seem to be no want and will.
00:06:48
Oliver
Yeah.
00:06:53
Oliver
Yeah.
00:06:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Archer Gray wasn't his best game I've seen him play for us to be fair but again the guy's young and the guy was put under pressure and yes sometimes Kinski should have just
00:07:01
Oliver
ah
00:07:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know kicked it kicked it straight away rather than taking that touch. that That caused a few issues. But we were sitting so far back that when they try to play it with the defenders and the keeper, um they invite pressure onto them.
00:07:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
And of all the teams that do it against Liverpool as a present team, they're phenomenal at it.
00:07:22
Oliver
Yeah.
00:07:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And their energy levels are great. And you've got a big Burley striker as well and fast wingers. And yeah, it was nonsense.
00:07:29
Oliver
Yeah, especially when Nunez is playing, Nunez is dangerous and you don't want to be playing like that when he's on the pitch.
00:07:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's just a menace.
00:07:35
Oliver
Yeah.
00:07:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's just a menace. He's physically really strong. And I guess that's what Andes saw and thought, you know, well, I need Danzo to be with him as well.
00:07:41
Oliver
Yeah.
00:07:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And obviously set pieces, et cetera, et cetera. It wasn't wasn't a great great one. um Any positives?
Richarlison's Performance and Injuries
00:07:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, the midfield wise, I would have started with Bergval as well, ah rather than Saar, because I think he's ah he's got both.
00:07:57
Oliver
Yup.
00:08:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Saar can't drive forward in that sort of in and they're free, and in the top of the of a triangle.
00:08:05
Oliver
Yeah.
00:08:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
He can't do that, in my opinion.
00:08:08
Oliver
Yeah. Bergvall's got the ability to defend and go forward where Sar is just intercepting and defending.
00:08:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, he's an engine.
00:08:14
Oliver
Um, he can't really get forward.
00:08:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's an engine. he you know Most teams have an engine there, and that's what he is.
00:08:16
Oliver
Yeah.
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Yeah, unfortunately the two players behind him really let him down.
00:08:25
Oliver
yeah
00:08:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sonny, again, yes it could be because he's been overplayed, but if you can't get up for a semi-final second leg when you're 1-0 up,
00:08:34
Oliver
Yeah, he's a captain.
00:08:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah I mean that's disappointing and it's really really hard to say that as a Spurs fan because he has done so much for us and he could have gone um a few seasons ago he could have gone you know last season to different clubs um he chose to stay with us but
00:08:48
Oliver
Yep.
00:08:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
got a question he's got a question he's 100% he's on the way he's on the on the downward trajectory so we say um but and he does need that that sort of rest period uh longer obviously and but he is i see him as an impact player now and i guess that's what and wanted to really bring him on for really as well a bit of impact but he's had to play him from the start and had to overplay him as well um he has he really has Bisharlison yeah Bisharlison was
00:08:57
Oliver
Mm hmm.
00:09:14
Oliver
Yeah, he's been massively overplayed and he needs... Oh...
00:09:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
all over a place like Headless Chicken, causing a menace, but he absolutely burnt himself out.
00:09:24
Oliver
Yeah, injured again.
00:09:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's him gone.
00:09:31
Oliver
um Yeah, ah I'll be honest, the guy wants to play for the club, but he's a liability. um Send him off to... I don't even care if he doesn't want to go to Saudi, ship him off to Saudi, get some money.
00:09:44
Oliver
And, um, but now when we can pay off, uh, pay off tail with that money, then I guess, um, I, I, I don't want Richardson to club anymore.
00:09:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:54
Oliver
He, he works for the team, but he's injured too often and he can't get going. And he hasn't got going since he signed.
00:10:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I would prefer to see Dane Scarlett, at least he's he's he's a more rounded individual and he will get in front of his man as well.
00:10:05
Oliver
Yeah.
00:10:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
look Don't get me wrong, it's a difficult game to be a striker because you had a lot of hoeing up with no no real runners because it's so far back.
00:10:16
Oliver
Yeah, of course.
00:10:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Chris Eske, he did his best. um But you had to laugh when he you know we broke and it was two players. He was one of the players going up.
00:10:25
Oliver
ah There was one moment where you, yeah, he was, he was actually stuck in the corner and he somehow still managed to win a corner.
00:10:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's looking across. No one was coming from midfield.
00:10:33
Oliver
Um, but he lit, he had nothing.
00:10:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he did really well, but he's skillful, but it was like watching someone in the last 10 minutes of the match trying to waste time, you know, put it to the corner and one run down there.
00:10:40
Oliver
Yeah.
00:10:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, it was it was shocking. He really was really, really missing Solanke, 100%.
00:10:47
Oliver
Oh, such a shame you're injured.
00:10:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, such a shame. So um obviously, one or all at half time. um then it got a bit worse. um
00:10:58
Oliver
Yeah.
00:11:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Mistakes. Usual silly mistakes um and we are often the product of our our own misdoing unfortunately.
00:11:06
Oliver
yeah
00:11:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So we had ah basically a missed ball passing was really rubbish from the back that caused that calls our first goal and then obviously we had the penalty as well where we were caught and I mean Kinski had to come out for it to be fair but he was never gonna get that um so it was always gonna be that way unfortunately.
00:11:28
Oliver
yep nah
00:11:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Superpenity must I must say from Salah I mean give him his shoes that was a cracking penalty but there's no pressure they were already winning
00:11:41
Oliver
yeah i'm I actually, I don't really like Salah's penalty technique, but he it was a bit different yesterday. He kind of curled it in into the top corner instead of just smashing his foot through it, which he normally does.
00:11:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:56
Oliver
um And there's a great penalty. No chance Kinski saved it.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it was. And then, obviously, we the gap poker was, yeah, again, probably because we we didn't control it enough in midfield. A good finish again, but wise.
00:12:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Quite often it was him or Salah was left on the back post quite open.
00:12:17
Oliver
yeah
00:12:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
They only had to put a ball across. Conor Bradley played pretty good, but he had the space to do what he does on it as well. It's a shame because I think Trent, if Trent was playing, they wouldn't have been so dangerous.
00:12:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bradley did really well to be fair. So yeah, difficult times. We saw Tell come on. and Bergval around 60, no, hang on, was it seen in that?
00:12:42
Oliver
Yeah. Tell us the end of the first half.
00:12:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was. Yeah, yeah, so that was the end of the first half and then we had Bergval come on as well. Tell first impressions of him, in my opinion, he looks to be more of a winger, a comeback striker rather than a centre forward.
00:12:56
Oliver
Yep. He, he was never going to make, yeah, he was never going to make much of an impact up against Van Dyke and Conarte.
00:12:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
He can't hurt the ball up very well.
00:13:03
Oliver
Um, on the, on the, I feel like, um, it's such a shame that Charles got injured because I would have, uh, brought Sonny off and met brought tell on, uh, the left wing because I feel like he could have made ah a good impact up against Connor Bradley because there would have been space to go into when he had the chance.
00:13:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yet again, though, it's the decisions taken out of the manager's hands, unfortunately, due to injury, which has happened a lot.
00:13:25
Oliver
yeah
00:13:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I feel sorry for the guy was listening to a podcast this morning. And yeah, he but basically said, they were saying about and from when he started to what he looks like now in press conferences, and he looks like he's aged like 10 years.
00:13:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's no wonder is it? It really isn't. it
00:13:46
Oliver
I mean, we can't, we we've got 10 senior players missing. Um, and I'm trying not to get too annoyed about the result because of stuff like that. And Liverpool are the best team in the world. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Top of the champions league, top of the premier league in the final of a cup already. So I'm trying not to get too annoyed. And I just wonder what it would have been like if we had players available. That's the lanky Romero then the van.
00:14:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think there's so many questions and they'll never be answered. but After the break, we'll speak about a little bit more about this, about Ange. and yeah was it Was it purely the pairs on the pitch? Maybe it was Ange as well. We'll have a discussion after this.
Players vs. Manager: Who's to Blame?
00:15:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
welcome back welcome back right so going into the match we were most where everybody was full of optimism you wouldn't be a Spurs fan if if you didn't have hope because that's the only thing we've got to hold on to of course um I might even get a tattooed on me a one-go lead is a one-go lead and it was there for the taking in my opinion Yes, as we said before, Liverpool were a very, very good team.
00:15:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Yes, it was going to be a tough ask away. But, you know, why, or why did it not even turn up? Ollie, whose fault is it? Is it so many other players? um I personally have simply revenge.
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
You look at the bench, but yeah, the two benches there. Yes, we had not much on there, but it was lost by the players on the pitch, wasn't it, mate? And is it, would you blame Mound at all or yeah for this particular one?
00:15:59
Oliver
um um I'm going to really struggle to blame Anj, maybe just Bergval for Tsar, but that's that's all I would have really done.
00:16:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
What else could he do, really?
00:16:12
Oliver
Yeah, he didn't have the the option to play anybody else really. um i mean um I blame the players. The players on that on that pitch didn't didn't turn up.
00:16:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:26
Oliver
Well, majority of them, especially the senior ones. And I just i just feel bad for Anj because he's getting all the heat and there's not much the guy can do.
00:16:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, ah think I think you're exactly right, mate, as per usual. We always sing on a relatively the same history, which was as good. But yeah, I mean, yes, fingers went awry that the team wasn't doing what he wanted them to do, but he's putting the players out there, which are the players best fit for the job with respect to the bench and respect to the young players who came on when we were in Europe.
00:17:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's not going to put them on and on the pitch against Liverpool. They're not going to either they'd be overruled
00:17:05
Oliver
No.
00:17:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's it's just silly thinking that he could have changed much on that particular match from the bench he had and he had to go with what he had to be fair. um My one criticism again it probably comes down to the lack of captains and leaders on the pitch as well and you spoke about it only anyway.
00:17:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
you want someone to grab the game by the scruff of the neck, you want someone to be vocal and maybe that's a vicario, he's he's in that leadership group, maybe he's the gobby one because yeah every team needs it um to call people out and and really cause a bit of ruckus because we haven't got that and Ange, as we discussed before, Ange won't do that, or we don't think he's going to do that and if he hasn't got though if he's got the same type of people around him, um
00:17:28
Oliver
Yeah.
00:17:39
Oliver
Mm hmm. I mean.
00:17:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ryan Mason and the rest of the coaching team. And they're very like, oh, well, this is how we set it out and keep calm and, you know, take your time and we'll get back into the match. Sometimes that's not good enough. You need to rile people sometimes and that hasn't happened by the looks of it.
00:18:01
Oliver
Yeah.
00:18:05
Oliver
It came out of the Bentang court. He went straight down the tunnel and didn't go to the away fans. And Bergval, one of the youngest players in the team, was telling Bentang court to go over to the away fans. um That just sums up.
00:18:19
Oliver
the leadership right now and and it came out earlier in the week that apparently Ben Tancall was being seen as a as a senior leader in the team and that doesn't look like a leader to me if ah an 18 year old is telling you or a 19 year old now is telling you to ah support the away fans.
00:18:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah regardless if you if you've had a bad you're not very happy with your own um match you've got to be mature enough to know actually right you know you there is something else you can do you can you can rally the team from the sidelines when you're taken off.
00:18:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can you can go you can go and and support that those fans were still left, because a lot of fans left early.
00:18:52
Oliver
ye
00:18:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And to be fair, that long journey, I don't blame them. you know If you're going to go up there and you see you pay a lot of money to get watch your team, and the team doesn't in general turn up. you know we've said every match this season the same players who have done a right stand that stood out and it's those three players Spence, Grey and Bergval and that is generally apart from one or two others sometimes that's generally what it is and Crikey you know we it's not yeah it's it's is it from the top I personally would like to see
00:19:13
Oliver
Yep. Yep.
00:19:27
Oliver
We need more.
00:19:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah think there's massive uncertainty and and um um feeling in the in the team currently and that does stem from the manager's situation because of the performances and the results which the team have got. So I personally would like them to come out and confirm that Andrew will stay to the end of the season and not every Spurs fan is going to want to hear this um but there's a reason behind the ah madness. It's because it forms a stability there and right, ka we've got Andrew in the season We're going to push ahead. It creates a bit of a, wait, Andrew's here. He's the boss. It stops anybody who perhaps in the team.
00:20:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
is having a few second thoughts about Ange because you've got to play for the team or else you won't be playing mate and fundamentally it gives if things don't work out it gives the club time to go and get them the right manager but in saying that I would like to see a whole change at the top this is a totally different conversation um but it comes from the top if you've got a football man who is
00:20:09
Oliver
yeah yeah
00:20:30
Oliver
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
um football through and through and he breeds excellence and really positivity through the team um from the top you know people follow those people and they want to work hard for manager and the owners and they want that success you only have to look at the successful teams of the past and that always happens and it comes back to having people in positions who are not football people and you know how embarrassing that you're tracing all these different players and send you send your person over who is in charge of recruitment and he can't get a deal done and then
00:20:49
Oliver
yeah
00:21:09
Oliver
Yeah. Yeah. And I
00:21:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then Levi has to go over and he can't get a deal done. You know why? Because they don't believe what he's saying.
00:21:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
and They don't believe in the project.
00:21:18
Oliver
Yeah.
00:21:19
Oliver
And then one phone call from and, and yeah.
00:21:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
and they One phone call from Andrew, the actual football guy, and he signs. That goes for me a long way, and it it just backs up what I think about the setup of Spurs in in in general currently.
00:21:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
and We're just not in a good place. um And there's again, there's talks a day or so ago about having to take over four billion pounds, et cetera, et cetera. Great. Let's get on and do it.
Call for Leadership Changes
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
good Let's get them out, and let's get a different structure in.
00:21:44
Oliver
Yeah.
00:21:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
You should be careful what we wish for, but I wish for anything but where we are currently.
00:21:48
Oliver
we we can't We've had it for too long with Lee Lee.
00:21:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's heartbreaking.
00:21:51
Oliver
He built a great business, but he killed the club um and it needs to change as soon as possible.
00:21:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. 100%, mate. 100%.
Preview of FA Cup Match against Aston Villa
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Global Sports Podcast Network
After the advert break, we will talk about Aston Villa ah FA Cup on Sunday. It doesn't rain, but it pours.
00:22:08
Oliver
because
00:22:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's talk about that afterwards, mate.
00:22:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay so moving swiftly on as most Spurs fans usually do after a match. Someday we have the FA Cup match against Aston Villa.
00:23:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Villa very very busy in the transfer window. um Probably most of those will be registered.
00:23:13
Oliver
very busy um i yeah i don't think he he would have because he i think he would have been kicked out the team um united team by then
00:23:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is Rashford Cup tied? Has he played any FA Cup? Probably not because it's quite early doors.
00:23:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, he was. He was. Yeah, um you're right. And oh my goodness. I don't know where to go on this, to be fair. I really don't. Mate, what what are your thoughts on on the FA Cup on Sunday?
00:23:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think we go and change a team? but He can't change much on a team. He's not going to go against Aston Villa and play total youth players.
00:23:46
Oliver
no no we
00:23:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's not going to do that. There'd be a cry for it, but that's stupidity.
00:23:53
Oliver
we've we've this is a real test of character for the squad um and the and and uh we've we've got to bounce back and recover um it's a quick turnover to sunday and he has i think he has to play the the strongest team because i think and you'll know this is a competition we can win
00:23:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:24:15
Oliver
we Although we live will beat us in the cup yesterday, there is there's always a chance we can still win a cup like the FA Cup, and you'll know that. I think you'll have to go strong, as strong as you can do. ah He's confirmed that we won't have any of our 10 injured players back, so it's going to be the same players that played yesterday. um It's going to be a struggle though.
00:24:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I would put Virgvalon 100 va on a hundred percent to drive forward because he needs something more in midfield.
00:24:44
Oliver
Absolutely.
00:24:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
He just can't have three defensive minded players. um And that was the wrong thing to do. But I mean, with Anj, he gets told off, you know, if he He gets criticized if he changes the formation to try and do something a bit different like he did against Everton.
00:25:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
But obviously with that, he had the injury to Solanke before that. So we he basically stuffed him up. So the guy is, you know, if you said, Ansh, can you give us your lottery numbers, you would disregard everything the guy says because he's so bloody unlucky.
00:25:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Excuse my French.
00:25:18
Oliver
yep well
00:25:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But um yeah it's going to be a difficult one. Villa, they're in a good place. um he's got He's got a really good team going on there, good vibes from them as well.
00:25:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:25:29
Oliver
they he they lost They had a poor result against Wolves um in the Premier League, but they are a different beast playing at home.
00:25:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:25:39
Oliver
um They've only lost two games there since May 13th, 2024. So only a few months away from being a year and two games losing two games at home in that space of time is just ridiculous.
00:25:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i Yeah, so we're going to go to the same team. Anybody you expect to be in the Liverpool team, for the Aston Villa team who aren't usually in there?
00:26:09
Oliver
Um, because, because there's a cup, I think they're going to probably chuck in a lot of the new signings.
00:26:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
The new signs perhaps?
00:26:15
Oliver
I think the sassy will play, you know, he's going to score after rejecting us about five times. And then, um, I think rash should Rashford, uh, Marlon, the guy who came from Dortmund, he'll play maybe, um, a sensio from PSG.
00:26:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Get your money on now people.
00:26:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
good
00:26:34
Oliver
I think you're chucking a lot of the new lights. Um,
00:26:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's good.
00:26:39
Oliver
I think Onana, he's come back from an injury, he's a bit of a threat, he'll be all over the pitch. I think it'll be a strong team, but a rotated team.
00:26:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, even playing the team we played last night, or even obviously when we ended in last night, because we won't have Michelle's son because he's injured.
00:27:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
We should still compete. you know but There's no reason why we can't compete. And that's the frustrating thing.
00:27:06
Oliver
Yeah.
00:27:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And i I wouldn't mind if they went out there, they competed. It wasn't going right. They put a few of the GIE and stuff like that on later on in the match, just to see if it can do anything and and resolve it.
00:27:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
As long as the team competes and it's in the game.
00:27:22
Oliver
Yeah, I just want to see that them fight for the fight for the badge so we can ask for at the end of the day.
00:27:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:27:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if' the phrase Tottenham till I die, I mean, all Spurs
Tottenham's Need for Pride and Effort
00:27:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
fans are. um some Some of them are Tottenham until 75 minutes currently and they go home, but you can absolutely understand that um as well.
00:27:37
Oliver
issues
00:27:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's going to be an interesting interesting watch. um was well What I do? Predictions? Predictions.
00:27:49
Oliver
um wow uh it could literally be anything um i'm gonna keep it positive i'm gonna go four two spurs that it might be shocking but i i have a i have a strange belief that um we're gonna beat villa we beat them four nil and four one in the last two meetings so done pretty well against him recently
00:28:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think we're going to, as long as he plays Bergval or somebody central, which can drive forward, yeah, Kules Esky, but who are you going to put on the right?
00:28:18
Oliver
Kilosev ski possibly tell and then start dying Scarlett.
00:28:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who is that? Okay. Yeah. Sonny needs a rest. Possibly.
00:28:30
Oliver
Yeah.
00:28:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Start more. Big match for him to start in, to be fair. I'm not sure if he's major ready for that, but Even, even so, you've got Sonny and more on the left. Tell has got enough legs to be out and he's young enough to be able to stay all the way on the right.
00:28:44
Oliver
Yep.
00:28:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Dane Scarlett central. And yeah, Chris Esky, but you won't be able to fit Bergwell in and we would use.
00:28:51
Oliver
you can You can play Bergvauer's C8 and Kula's a 10.
00:28:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. So who's, who's missing? that So Bissoma's out. Yeah.
00:29:00
Oliver
Yeah, for me.
00:29:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you play, you play Benzacore per enough.
00:29:03
Oliver
Yeah.
00:29:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
The defence picks itself because it has to. um Well, in saying that, do we it it goes down to what's more important, doesn't it?
00:29:09
Oliver
Van der Ven might be back. He's not he's not injured, he's just being slowly put into the team. So he might be on the bench, might might start.
00:29:21
Oliver
yeah
00:29:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
A FA Cup run or do we and improve our league position? So it'd be interesting to see what he does there. But um either way, we've got to get something out of it as per usual.
00:29:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we need to see a performance if not. um that's the That's a minimum criteria. The guys have turned up and played for the badge so that actually you can be proud of the team's effort.
00:29:41
Oliver
Yeah. Yeah. What what i was, what was your,
00:29:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
you might not You might disagree with where they do stuff and how they play, but you want to be proud of them.
00:29:49
Oliver
i was I was really, ah what I was really worried about was getting battered by Liverpool like we did.
00:29:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Come on, mate.
00:29:55
Oliver
And then we'd just be done for for the game against Villa. um If we narrowly lost to Liverpool, I think the team wouldn't be too disheartened because they are a great team, but we did get bullied by them for 90 minutes.
00:30:09
Oliver
and you want you want to keep the momentum we built before the Liverpool game going into the Villa game. And I think we're going to struggle um with that, unfortunately.
00:30:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think it's going to be a tough call for us to go out to Villa and um get anything from it. I would like us to compete, of course I would. I would like us to get a goal or two and just to get a bit of confidence about it as well.
00:30:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
um It's better to lose by being in the game than being absolutely whitewashed like you were against Liverpool.
00:30:38
Oliver
Yep.
00:30:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
end of the day so nobody wants a draw and I usually go for drawers because I can't say I can never say that spares are gonna lose so that's why I say a draw often so to all they
00:30:50
Oliver
Did it go straight to penalties?
00:30:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
do go straight back yeah that'll be interesting because we could yeah Well, who knows? That's like watching and Spurs currently. it's It's absolute penalty. You know, sometimes we'll willll we'll do all right and some most of the time we'll miss them.
00:31:05
Oliver
Yep.
00:31:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
To get a shot on target would be nice.
00:31:08
Oliver
he said
00:31:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
No shots on target there, cranky, which is crazy. But um no, I'm going to go for, you know, I think we will score. It's going to be interesting. It really is.
Conclusion and Social Media Engagement
00:31:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we want a performance end of the day, don't we?
00:31:21
Oliver
We've got to start quick.
00:31:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely, definitely. Okay, anything else you want to put across?
00:31:27
Oliver
No, that's it.
00:31:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. The numbness came back last night, but um until next time, it's goodbye from him, Oli Kasabi.
00:31:32
Oliver
yes
00:31:37
Oliver
Goodbye.
00:31:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's goodbye from me, Chris Mervyn. You've been listening to the Daily Tottenham Podcast. ah Please follow us on at Daily Tottenham and ah GSPN, the Global Sports Podcast Network on YouTube.
00:31:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
um You've been listening to Daily Tottenham. Come on, you spurs.