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DAILY TOTTENHAM: Tuesday 11th March 2025: BOURNEMOUTH MATCH REVIEW, team selection and ANGE.
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Daily Tottenham's Chris Mervyn is joined once ageing by Ollie Kasabi to talk the Bournemouth 'comeback/rescue', the team selection and performance.... and what to do about a problem called Ange.
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Introduction to Daily Tottenham Podcast
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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.
00:00:21
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Good morning, good evening. I'm Chris Mervin and I'm joined once again by the magician who is
Was Tottenham's Draw Deserved?
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Oli Kasabic. Oli, how are you, mate? How's it going? how How are you feeling now after our second half revival?
00:00:36
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Was it rescuing a point against Bournemouth or was it just really... we didn't really deserve anything from it. What do you think?
00:00:43
Oliver
we we didn't deserve anything at all. um It was really bad, really, really bad. We didn't create anything. um um i mean, we dominated the ball.
00:00:55
Oliver
um I just didn't see any intensity in our passes, in our pressing, nothing. ah We could have been one that down inside the first minute. Romero giving the ball away to Evan Nilsson.
00:01:08
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Hmm.
00:01:08
Oliver
Vicario saved us. and mean, what he did all game. He he was good.
Tottenham's Performance Issues
00:01:13
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So I'm just double checking that this isn't a recording of every match we've had in recent memory because it sounds exactly like every match.
00:01:22
Oliver
yeah it does
00:01:22
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How the hell can we go into a match and start off by looking like we're going to concede 10 goals in the first 10 minutes? And it's only, in this case, Vecario, again, who has kept us in the game. And without him, wow.
00:01:37
Oliver
yeah he's he's virtually the only positive um other than the the returning players because Against AZ in the first leg, he kept us in it.
00:01:48
Oliver
That was probably the only positive. And without him, we we could have been about six down.
00:01:56
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Yep. Yep. but I mean, for all his faults previously to getting injured, I mean, he's looking, obviously Koulouse-Lessie's not there, but he's looking like our best player.
00:02:06
Oliver
Yeah, he's been...
00:02:07
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Our most reliable best player, ah really ah our match winner in in a sense, in that sense, or match stay in, ah if that's even a
00:02:15
Oliver
Yeah.
Analyzing the 2-2 Draw with Bournemouth
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phrase.
00:02:16
Oliver
yeah
00:02:17
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um Crikey. um So we we, for those, everybody's watched it, so I don't know I said always say for those who didn't see it, um we ended up drawing the match to all. So...
00:02:28
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Bournemouth just started with a real intensity. What a surprise. They're the best pressing team in the league this season. and What a surprise. They pressed us and put us under pressure.
00:02:39
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And yes, of course, we put ourselves under pressure and played out the back. Some monumental mistakes, which you're not going to see...
00:02:46
Oliver
Yeah, we gave the ball away so much.
00:02:48
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If you ever watch under five so yeah under five's team or under nine's team or something, a very young age, when you're saying, yeah, pass out and they're just passing in it to to anybody, um the the other team, that's basically what they're doing.
00:02:56
Oliver
Yeah, just boot it.
00:03:00
Oliver
Yeah.
00:03:00
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um it had It was like headless football. It really was. And you you could see it happening as well. You could see it. It was like a running out of time. They had to get rid of the ball before a certain time.
00:03:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Almost like... um a practice match where you've got a you've got to get the ball out of a certain area within five seconds well you know what matches aren't like that and you shouldn't be playing like that against the best pressing team
00:03:21
Oliver
should yeah we we really gave the ball away way too often um especially in that first half every time we tried to play it out of the back we were trying to play it centrally and that there just wasn't any option there they were just they weren't even i don't even think they were looking up I don't know if think Poro looked up once when when trying to play out from the back and we were just inviting pressure all game it was just painful
00:03:35
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yeah
00:03:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it really was. So, Tavernier, who had a good game, to be fair. In fact, most of the Bournemouth team had an OK game. Scored the first goal 42.
00:04:02
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Evan Nielsen scored in 65. Again, a reasonable goal. um We managed to pull back a goal in the second half, obviously, with Pepe Sars. deliberate shots come across it 100% I don't know this is the man he can only score when he doesn't mean to score I think um anytime anybody says shoot like Basuma as well the crowd was saying shoot every time he was so outside the box have you seen these players actually score and shoot that much you know
00:04:16
Oliver
yeah absolutely
00:04:20
Oliver
you
00:04:30
Oliver
should ill remember Basuma scored a great goal against Everton in earlier on in the season but that's the ah the only time yeah
00:04:38
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But with Saar, you're almost better off saying cross because then they just take a shot, you know? he's He's confusing. And then obviously we had, thankfully, their keeper to to thank for deciding to come out and take out Sonny.
00:04:53
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And obviously Sonny knew exactly was happen professionally.
00:04:55
Oliver
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:55
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He took the contact.
00:04:55
Oliver
Yeah.
00:04:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
The ball was practically off the pitch before he got to the ground anyway. But that doesn't matter because it was a reckless challenge. um And he waited for the keeper to die before he put the ball slightly to the left of the centre.
00:05:10
Oliver
yeah
00:05:11
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and not not a bad finish really felt felt happy for him because he's had a lot of stick and I think him and the other substitutes which we'll talk about minute made a lot of difference when they did come on didn't they
00:05:16
Oliver
yeah
00:05:23
Oliver
Yeah, they did. I think both both the goals we scored kind of really summed up the lack of creativity we had because we score a fluky goal through Saar, meant to be across.
00:05:37
Oliver
And then we get a penalty through Son. And when when you're scoring two goals and that's the only only way you're you're scoring, it' it's not a great look. And before that, we hadn't scored against City.
00:05:51
Oliver
We hadn't scored against AZ. So that's three games where you haven't really felt we look like scoring at all.
00:06:00
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Yeah, and obviously Bournemouth came off the back of two losses themselves as well.
00:06:04
Oliver
Yeah.
00:06:04
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So they had a point to prove. um And yeah, I don't think we had, before these two goals scored, I don't think we had scored a goal for ah quite a considerable amount of time at home.
00:06:16
Oliver
Yeah, and Angie's whole thing is scoring goals. So it's worrying.
00:06:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we'll talk about Ange later because I know you're more pro-Ange than I am. I've been sort of, okay, we'll give him the benefit of doubt, but you've been actually, what's the point with him?
00:06:32
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Is he stick with him, etc.?
00:06:33
Oliver
Yeah.
00:06:33
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But we'll talk about him later on.
Line-up Surprises and Defensive Criticism
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um Looking at this the the line-up, we had um quite a surprising line-up, really, because I was only saying in the Bournemouth crossover the the other day, literally a couple days before the match, was that, yeah, well, we're going to be without... um Solanke, etc.
00:06:51
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But he made an appearance straight away from the from the start.
00:06:52
Oliver
He was there. Yep.
00:06:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they did what i wanted them to do. And you did as well. Resson and give Oduba a decent amount of game time on the left hand going forward. and Which is good. um the The team itself, Vicario in goal, there's no doubt now, as as we said, he's becoming...
00:07:13
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one of the first name if not the first name on the team sheet now ironically because it is the literally the first name you put name you put on the team seat as says a goalkeeper who else is going to be there um um how ironic what stupid phrase that is um then we had poro uh romero um making his return danzo and spence um then we had basuma uh benton core
00:07:15
Oliver
Yep. Good to see. Saw it.
00:07:21
Oliver
yep
00:07:30
Oliver
good to say
00:07:39
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We had Saar and Johnson, Solanke and Odubato.
00:07:39
Oliver
so
00:07:44
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So, yeah, it was an OK line-up. is not I think looking at the line-up itself, especially when team presses you and there will be space behind and just in front of the back four in particular.
00:07:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I to think looking at them the team sheet there... I was surprised Madison wasn't playing straight went away because he didn't have a good match midweek. And I thought he was one of those players who could find those key passes.
00:08:06
Oliver
No.
00:08:09
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And that's what we were missing, creativity, wasn't it? um
00:08:12
Oliver
Yeah.
00:08:13
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You mentioned about possession already, that we had it again. um But we had 60.9% of possession and we did nothing with it.
00:08:21
Oliver
Yeah, it's it really, really worrying how we can have so much of the ball and just...
00:08:21
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I wanted to s swear there, but nothing with it.
00:08:28
Oliver
well I mean, ah feel like when I'm watching, we're we're not just... passing around the back but we we must be but like we can't be doing anything else other than these sideway passes between defenders and that's where the bulk of the possession comes from probably
00:08:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think you're right. It's it's aimless passing sideways.
00:08:51
Oliver
yeah
00:08:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And from the very off, um as I said, the return in Romero, good to see him come back. And I know he's not match fit. um But there was a lack of...
00:09:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
There was a lack of intensity, as you said before, straight from the outset. I'm not i'm not sure what the heck is going on regards to when they get on the pitch. It's almost like, yeah, we're at Bournemouth, we're at home. Oh, we'll just see. They're scared.
00:09:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's all I can put it down to. They're scared to make mistakes. But that's only one thing that's going to happen there. You're going to make mistakes. And that's what happened.
00:09:25
Oliver
Yeah, it
00:09:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Romero, and the amount of times you put the keeper under pressure... And there were a few passes back to Vicario as well, not necessarily just from Romero as well, where you thought, just turn it, um just do something else with it and and don't put them under pressure because they were pushing so hard up.
00:09:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
The line, you know, the defensive line was almost in our... sort of penalty area really so it was difficult i that means you're playing balls right across the back four and Vicario did have one moment there which um he took a really rubbish first touch when someone passed back to him right across his goal and don't know was it um
00:09:51
Oliver
yeah it was
00:10:07
Oliver
Evan Nielsen, I think.
00:10:08
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Yeah, remember Newell's something, one of the players there, to try and get, you know, almost got it, so he managed to pass it to the side.
00:10:12
Oliver
Yeah, very close.
00:10:14
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But Romero made a lot of mistakes, a lot of mistakes, and too many mistakes, from my mind, to
00:10:22
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to say it's because he hasn't played. He's been training for 59 weeks now and not been available. But, you know you know, he's been training a long time, hasn't he, now to to get this his position now.
00:10:30
Oliver
He has...
00:10:32
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I just don't know why. i think match fitness, yes, it's match fitness. ah I think you should have intensity and be able to pass a ball and work hard as you do in training. If if anything, training is more intense.
00:10:41
Oliver
the um Going forward, though, I felt like he he played a ah good few balls. In between ah the left-back and the left centre-back, I felt like he was finding Johnson and Solanke with one ball, and they were very nice balls.
00:11:00
Oliver
But, um yeah, defensively, he looked a bit off and estranged from him because he is so, so elite.
00:11:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I just don't... I don't know. Maybe it's just... Maybe if you hang around with people who are a little bit confused and not playing as well as they should do, that that general mood gets into yourself, even if you haven't been doing it yourself. And you get you get the chance to come on the pitch again, and suddenly you're...
00:11:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh Oh, okay.
00:11:30
Oliver
Hehehehe.
00:11:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a match.
00:11:31
Oliver
Hehehehe.
00:11:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, I hope the fans are okay. or hope they don't get on their back straight away.
00:11:33
Oliver
it should
00:11:35
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hope they make a noise. Oh, it's silent. Oh, ah in fact, it's it's not silent when when they're actually, we've got the ball at the back. That's when we hear that, oh, and a bit of unrest. But it's no wonder.
00:11:46
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Knock it long. Knock it to the channels. You've got wingers. That's what they're for. You've got Johnson, who is a speedy player and had the beating speed-wise, but he never took it around the...
00:11:56
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no, I'm not going to get onto Johnson yet.
00:11:57
Oliver
oh If we start talking about Johnson, we could have a whole podcast.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, thats not let's let's go for the team first, mate. Let's go for the team. um So Romero didn't have a good game. Danso next to him, I thought he was assured. I think he got caught...
00:12:09
Oliver
Yep.
00:12:10
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um a little bit coming towards the ball and Spence didn't, lost his man totally for one of the goals. um But I thought, again, Danso is looking like, yeah, I think he's a a decent player, however you do.
00:12:24
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um
00:12:25
Oliver
Yeah, very, very solid.
00:12:26
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And, you know, if you said to me after that match, who would you play? Would you play Van de Ven? ah Just on that, on the performances, vander Van de Ven, Danso or Romero, which one of you played play together? I'd go for Van de Ven and to be fair, rather than Romero at the moment.
00:12:39
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I know that Danso is not as good a player as Romero, but, But, and you have to give Romero chances, but I guess the problem is everything is such under a microscope. He has to play and give him game time. And that's why he did did it for Romero, because he can't just throw him in next week.
00:12:51
Oliver
yeah
00:12:52
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ah for Sorry, yeah they on Thursday. So that's that's difficult, isn't it? um Spence um did okay again. um Wasn't his best game. He wasn't amazing, but he was still one of the driving forces.
00:13:02
Oliver
no
00:13:07
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And he was doing well just linking up and with, with, um, Audubon as well. Um, and Poro.
00:13:14
Oliver
I thought he was really bad.
00:13:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:17
Oliver
um I thought the first goal Bournemouth scored, he's just gone past the halfway line into the attacking phase um and he's just given the given a chance for Kerkers to intercept the pass and he shouldn't have been given a chance.
00:13:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:35
Oliver
um It's pretty easy pass to Johnson. And then Kerkhez has bombed it down the pitch in all this open space because Porro is now miles out position and he's put in a ridiculous cross to be fair and they've scored.
00:13:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was crazy. what it It was one hell of a cross. but you know Properly, he was going at full speed, just steadied himself a little bit and the and the curl on it was like, yeah, for fair enough.
00:13:53
Oliver
Yeah, it was.
00:14:00
Oliver
Yeah.
00:14:00
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You've just got to get on the end of that and you yeah it's on target. and it it the cross the the The cross made the goal look really good. But they do break really well, even when they had ah an offside goal against us as well.
00:14:07
Oliver
Yeah.
00:14:12
Oliver
Yeah, the offside goal as well, ah blame Poro because stepped up ah to try and win a ball that wasn't there to be won ah and he's left Semenyo unmarked in in space, which I just ah just couldn't believe it when I saw it.
00:14:13
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pay yeah Yeah, same reason.
00:14:27
Oliver
It's just basic football knowledge um that you don't do that. and they We got lucky because it was offside, got disallowed. But we we shouldn't we shouldn't have got away with that. Semenyo was really yeah silly. He shouldn't have been offside.
00:14:43
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Yeah, it's just a ah mistake you see Sunday league teams. It's just laziness, isn't it, really, I think.
00:14:48
Oliver
Yeah.
00:14:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
In fact, it reminds me of Johnson a few times when he has been caught offside and you're like, mate, what are you doing? And then he goes and scores a tap-in and people remember he scored.
00:14:56
Oliver
Yeah.
00:14:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
But then, well, Spurs fans grew wise to it pretty quickly. that that's
00:15:02
Oliver
Yeah.
00:15:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's all he does.
00:15:03
Oliver
Yeah.
00:15:04
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Again, I've quickly jumped from defence to Johnson.
00:15:06
Oliver
yeah
00:15:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
let's not it's not ah It's not an anti-Johnson post this, although it might turn into it.
00:15:11
Oliver
yeah
00:15:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But anyway, let's have a bit of a break and we'll go on to the midfield and see how they did.
00:15:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Awesome. Right, so welcome back. Midfield. Spence, Bissouma and Saar.
00:16:02
Oliver
Spence, Basuma and so.
00:16:04
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Oh no, sorry.
00:16:05
Oliver
Yeah,
00:16:07
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Bissouma, Saar and Benzikor. um Mate, can't even be even writing. Jesus. um
00:16:17
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It looks really defensive to start off with, didn't it?
00:16:20
Oliver
yeah I mean...
00:16:21
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i was I was worried just at how we're going to break down and the quick passing... um I couldn't see any players on there apart from Spence and Oliver who would possibly do something. But that's all wing play.
00:16:37
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Central coming through. You had Solanke back. And he's got to he's a good hold-up player. He's strong. He draws fouls, but he does get the ball into people's feet, off long balls in particular.
00:16:49
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But there's no players running
Midfield Struggles and Player Performances
00:16:50
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on.
00:16:50
Oliver
No.
00:16:50
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I don't know who was supposed to do that out of those three.
00:16:50
Oliver
Yeah.
00:16:54
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I know Sar actually had a good game, to be honest, one of those better games that he's played recently.
00:16:58
Oliver
yeah
00:16:58
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um But for me, he's not that player.
00:17:01
Oliver
No, he is here's an eight. um He's not a ten, he's not six. I don't like the fact that you had to play that role. um Obviously, Madison and Bergvau are both on the bench, probably going to start midweek and that's why they were on the bench.
00:17:23
Oliver
But I felt maybe you could... chuck one of them in um so so we didn't have to play Saar as the creative player coming to support Solanke and the wingers.
00:17:38
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Yeah, and it lacked it lacked loads of movement there. ah again, it happened the second half as well, but mainly in the first half, where we found ourselves in advanced positions.
00:17:48
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um And yes, we might have been a little bit isolated, but he ended up passing it back and it went right back to the defenders again. And yes, they had pushed up towards the halfway line by then, but it was like you're playing against 11 men again.
00:18:01
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you know You had an advantage there of playing against four.
00:18:01
Oliver
Yeah.
00:18:03
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Yes, you might be able to take them on and take him take them down the wing, get a corner out of it.
00:18:07
Oliver
Take a chance.
00:18:07
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I just don't understand that. It just doesn't doesn't work. So for me, Again, it's always to be always easy to be critical about Ange and any any manager really when they don't win.
00:18:19
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But um I just lacked a bit of... Okay, I get being defensively strong but and rigid, but the pressure you're under, the way we play... you were always going to create have mistakes and there wasn't that that player to be able to turn quickly like a Madison and put those through balls through as we did see in the second half when he came on.
00:18:40
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um Up front, we had Johnson, um
00:18:45
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deep breaths.
00:18:45
Oliver
yep
00:18:46
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Solanke and Odobert. So Sonny was rested. Hallelujah.
00:18:51
Oliver
yeah
00:18:51
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Praise the Lord. All those words. It was great to see. And Odobert, for me, he looked exciting every time. He was trying to do something. He was taking a man on. He was step overs. He... um Yes, it with respect to the player against him, he wasn't a proper right-back he's been filling in for that for the season for their own injuries for Bournemouth.
00:19:11
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But I thought he did pretty well and he always looked like he was going to create something every time he got the ball.
00:19:16
Oliver
Yeah, I mean, if he he's he's not going to pull it off every time.
00:19:16
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and
00:19:19
Oliver
He's not going to beat the man every time, but at least he's giving it a go. And that's what Johnson doesn't do and he's not capable of doing. So credit to Odebert.
00:19:32
Oliver
He got me excited to to see the team go forward.
00:19:37
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Yeah, and him and Spence worked really well, I thought.
00:19:39
Oliver
Yeah.
00:19:40
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um They were dropping places. And that must be a nightmare, to be honest, for for a right-back, those two, because they're both tricky. They're both speedy. And, you know, if you get it wrong, you you're caught out, aren't you?
00:19:52
Oliver
Yeah, you're back in trouble.
00:19:53
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um it just all All it were lacked was just having you know someone coming in deep from midfield, as we've suggested.
00:20:01
Oliver
yeah
00:20:01
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um They just didn't have that. And the players we got there, as we said, they didn't create... So, Lanky did well, I thought. um Hard for us for a striker to come in after having quite a few games off.
00:20:12
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And he did his work rate is really high again, wasn't it?
00:20:14
Oliver
Yeah, um ah off the ball, he he didn't stop running. He played 96 minutes, which is great because he's been out for so long. So 96 minutes in the tank before a big game is what you like to see.
00:20:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah and he And he did what i you you want him to do. He was fighting for every ball. um he use If there was a long ball, which is unusual, but if there was, um he was heading it back towards the midfield. Again, sometimes to a no not to a player because there wasn't a player in that space.
00:20:42
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um he was held up, player was good. He drew drew quite a few few fouls as well. um He just didn't have the player's movement around him really. And and Johnson on the right...
00:20:55
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um you know he is that position is definitely the position we need to going forward need to a strengthen and we need to get a worldie in
00:21:00
Oliver
Really? Yeah. I don't get why um we didn't Chuck Tell there. Because...
00:21:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
I would have yeah even though he's a left and he doesn't necessarily like playing a right he would do something and it will cut in he he try something he's a better player surely
00:21:17
Oliver
Yeah, i think I think if you have... Tell would be able to do everything Johnson does, arrive at that back post, but Tell could offer so much more. He could probably, he could beat his man, he could cut in, he could shoot.
00:21:30
Oliver
He could do so much more than Johnson. And it's just really strange. ah don't I don't see what Ange sees in Johnson.
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I don't. you and if If he was cutting back and helping out Porro, who is always going to get cut caught out defensively, then I get it.
00:21:46
Oliver
Yeah, that's...
00:21:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But that's not him. He doesn't do that.
00:21:52
Oliver
he
00:21:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's lazy. He gets caught out of position still.
00:21:55
Oliver
yeah
00:21:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
He doesn't bother chasing back. um There's no movement from him at all. He'd get the ball to his feet. um Quite a few times he tried to take it to like go through the defender. The defender just did a normal tackle.
00:22:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
was like, yeah, what you doing, mate?
00:22:09
Oliver
Nice one
00:22:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm just going to tackle you. Great, thanks. He's got the speed to beat players as well.
00:22:12
Oliver
mate.
00:22:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Knock it round. just didn't
00:22:15
Oliver
I don't get it. the It really aggravates me as well when, like you said, he doesn't he doesn't get back and help out because Poro is not great defensively as it is. And when it's Kerkhez and Semenyo two on one against Poro, he doesn't really stand much of a chance.
00:22:32
Oliver
And then you got Johnson stood on the halfway line walking about. It's just really frustrating to see. He doesn't have a good footballing brain, I don't think. um I don't think he has much awareness of what's going on around him.
00:22:45
Oliver
So players find it easy to getting into good positions um without Johnson tracking him.
00:22:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think if Kuliseski's playing on the right there, Poirot doesn't go far as far up for the Kirkos Cross goal. I think they didn't get to go as far up. It doesn't get caught out because he'll pass it to Kuliseski. And Kuliseski likes to take on this man.
00:23:05
Oliver
Yeah.
00:23:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
um so i And doesn't take any prisoners. he will put a foot in as well and stop it at source. You just don't see that with Johnson at all. And I think that, you know, yes, I know we're,
00:23:15
Oliver
Nah.
00:23:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
just a above the regulation we're mid-table, et cetera, and arguably, you know, that's where we deserve to be for what we're playing at. But that's the kind of player Johnson is. I think he's mid-table at best, Premier League.
00:23:30
Oliver
we We got absolutely robbed blind through payment. We paid like 50, 55 mil for him. And he only had one season in the Premier League with Forrest, I'm pretty sure.
00:23:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:41
Oliver
So yeah, we we got robbed.
00:23:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:23:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i think we got the wrong players. Should have got Hudson-Odoi, I think.
00:23:48
Oliver
yeah they got they were they spent about 10 million on Hudson-Odoi and Alanga and we spent 50 odd million on Johnson I just i just don't understand yeah
00:23:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mind you,
00:23:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think our we've got major problems on the right-hand side. and i know that Kudusiewski can play the right and he will do. And sometimes him and Maddison can play together. Sometimes they can and he'll play central. um But I think right winger and right back, proper right you know write back as well.
00:24:11
Oliver
I
00:24:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know Spence can play it as well, but I kind of like him on the left. um He seems to be able to...
00:24:18
Oliver
Yeah, I just ah just think um ah think Udogi, his performances will improve. So I wouldn't want to
00:24:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mate, they've got to. He came on and he... messaged you, didn't I, about Johnson saying he's invisible.
00:24:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I felt that about a doggy as well. just like ah don't see the point of vo recovery. He just runs around. You know if you've got ah a young puppy and you're like, and know oh they're goingnna have a run and you think they're going to run.
00:24:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
They run everywhere and they're like manic, and but they don't actually ever get the ball. And that's like him, I think.
00:24:56
Oliver
Yeah, i mean, I don't want to say anything negative on him because we've we've said in previous podcasts he didn't have a pre-season.
00:25:07
Oliver
He had surgery.
00:25:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:08
Oliver
um He had...
00:25:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mate, very balanced view. Very good. None of this emotion rubbish. Need to score then.
00:25:14
Oliver
a He had them ah another long-term injury this season. He's barely played football. If he gets um maybe like 10 games in a row of football and he's still performing at the level he is, then people can have different different opinions. But for now, i'm not going to say anything.
00:25:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
But i had I personally had a question marks over him when he was playing well and he used you know he was on the fringes of the Italy squad, etc. as well. um I just thought that um too many times he'd, bit like Basuma, just switched off on passes and he just gave it away. I just...
00:25:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Anyway, you're right. But how many times do we give people benefits of the doubt? How many times do we give players?
00:25:56
Oliver
Yeah.
00:25:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do we give Ange? It's the injuries. It's what is it? You know, at some point, somebody is going have sort bite the bullet. After the break, we're going to talk about Ange because, yeah, we need to.
00:26:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't know why that went on twice. It meant it's so good. Crikey.
00:26:40
Oliver
fish
00:26:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, okay. So, Ange, mate, you're a staunch defender and we've given the benefit of doubt. i You can't tell me, honestly, you can't tell me that if there wasn't a better manager out there now...
00:26:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
he wouldn't have gone. He can't tell me that he is, to the outsider, looks devoid of ideas when the team's playing.
00:26:59
Oliver
the
00:27:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
He doesn't engage. He doesn't give out the right message to fans looking at them who are frustrated, wanting somebody to actually take control of the situation. You know, on the pitch, we were devoid of captains for a while.
00:27:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, Vicario's back there now and he's shouting at players and and getting them up, etc. Um... But you kind of want that from your manager as well, don't you? Even Areola at the weekend, you saw that from him speaking to players, giving them coaching advice there.
00:27:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, is it Mason and and the rest of the team who do the coaching and he just comes in and says, what do want in the barbie, mate? ah don't know.
00:27:40
Oliver
Yeah.
00:27:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
What's going on? ah get I get the quiet man situation. I'm not an outspoken person. um ah when i Even when I was coaching, um both football and rugby. I used to bit say, you know, well okay, we won't, you know, we'll were have a chat, we'll be nice, calm and controlled and we'll train it, we'll do it in in practice and we'll talk about it in the changing rooms half-time or before the match, et cetera, and even afterwards.
00:28:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, and I get that, but obviously that message decision isn't coming across. The players aren't doing what whatever it or maybe they are doing whatever he wants to them to do. They look confused. They look devoid of what actually they should be doing on the pitch.
00:28:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
They look scared to play out from the back because of the issues they've had anyway. um And there's no plan B. Some of the tactics, I don't know if if they are tactics or is it it can't always be the players' fault, surely.
00:28:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I know it can't be Andrew's fault as well, but all the time. But somebody's got to take the buck don't they? Post-match, Anne said, most of it, the issues there were self-inflicted chaos.
00:28:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
But who gives the instruction to play from the back? That's the way we do things. Oh, well, mate, that's what I do. So it comes to mind, doesn't it?
00:28:56
Oliver
Yeah, I mean, it does come from him. um i i'm I'm not going to act like...
00:29:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't get me wrong, mate. ah There's no one else out there and he's going to be there today in the season. And great, if he wins the Europa, I think we still get rid of him anyway. But carry on.
00:29:16
Oliver
i'm I don't think... we even if we go out of the Europa League, on the even if we don't go out on Thursday, if we got the Europa League at a different stage, if we go the quarters, semi-final, wherever it is, give him to the end of the season.
00:29:33
Oliver
See, there's 10 games left. Say we win six of them, ah draw two, lose two.
00:29:44
Oliver
I think that's more than enough to give him at least at least another season and see what he can do with this team. You're shaking your head, but i really ah really do believe in him and I just don't see what benefit we get from sacking a rebuild manager two years into the rebuild.
00:30:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mate, that's a different um thing
Managerial Critique and Team Potential
00:30:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
though, isn't it? You can believe in him or or you don't see the point in it. There's two different things. So what what what for the person like me who is probably little bit impatient and actually wants to see some fire and you know come out and and I like him having a bite back at the um ah the at the press. But at the same time, when he does it all the time, it's a bit...
00:30:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
arrogant and know you know, can you not see it? That's what they're, that's why they're asking you about playing from the back. Um, he doesn't really have a plan B from it and it, you might leave the, um,
00:30:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
the players to make their own decisions on mid in mid-game. But I mean, if you constantly tell this is the way, and you know there are there are managers out there who even say, you know if you don't play this way, that's my way, you'll get dropped.
00:30:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't know if he's one of those managers, but something's not right, is it? I mean, what what is there to believe in really, apart from, what have you seen where the green shoots of of of grass are coming through?
00:31:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
What can we build on?
00:31:12
Oliver
I think we've got a very, very exciting team ah full of young talent.
00:31:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I can't see anything to build on.
00:31:20
Oliver
And he we this is a rebuild manager. win Let's not act like he's a Mourinho or a Conte where he's been brought in to win trophy straight away i mean we've gone how many years have we gone we we've gone like 17 years or something without a trophy why can't we just wait a couple more um and see and see where we're at with ang um it might not get there
00:31:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or even just win.
00:31:47
Oliver
um But I just don't see the point in sacking him. I don't think any manager in the world could have done a better job with with the injuries we had.
00:31:57
Oliver
um so I think you you let him off there. ah We got absolutely stiffed with with our injuries. um ah see I see i'll just see Bergvau, Gray, Saar, Kulusevski, Solanke, Odebert, Spence, Romero, Mickey van der Ven.
00:32:17
Oliver
I just see quality players in that team. And I think we are a brilliant right winger, a brilliant midfielder, and
00:32:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I
00:32:30
Oliver
and and yeah a brilliant brilliant right back or left back away from having a very, very, very good team.
00:32:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
like get that. I get that. But I mean, hindsight's a fantastic thing. And and we've we've both agreed on the fact that there's you know there was no point in changing hand because no one was around.
00:32:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I get that. And I am airing my own frustrations, of course, about about him. And it's down I think it's just down to the lack of... want of of of getting involved on the edge of the pitch and you know maybe I've just it's fine when he's winning that's it you know he's studied as a man the man of his principle um when he's not I just don't see that kind of passion which every Spurs oh any football fan has about their club um i don't see that um I know he's been asked about that before and he got a little bit prickly saying, well, yeah, you know you know I believe in what we're doing and stuff like that.
00:33:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
But there's a thing about saying it, there's another thing about showing it.
00:33:26
Oliver
yeah you you
00:33:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just don't believe it shows it enough.
00:33:28
Oliver
You just want to see he cares as much as every Spurs fan cares. Is that what you feel?
00:33:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I want to oh ah want to see it. or I don't want to hear it. I want to see that he cares and shows the passion and gets the frustration which we we all go through as Spurs fans.
00:33:38
Oliver
Yeah.
00:33:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
um and um Although I'd always think about you know I'd rather be the person going to every match as a season ticket holder. I'm not a season ticket holder. i'm I'm kind of a lucky one. At least I'm not going to to every every match and seeing that same thing because it would really frustrate me, especially but living so far away from London as well. so um It is frustrating. I mean, it is a topic of the news, of course, as well.
00:34:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, there's no one out there to replace him, but I don't know. it's It's a really difficult situation, isn it, with regards to what you do a... with a with an Ange currently he's not producing you know you put it in an any other workplace then you probably say look mate you know you haven't got anybody to come into into the same role as he has but it's not working and you just need to go because it's damaging the club um i get I get all of the Bergvau and stuff but how much of that was actually planned before he gave he came on board
00:34:35
Oliver
Yeah.
00:34:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are they and signings? I know he might have had an influence on um speaking to the player, but that's what most managers will do anyway, as long as you're decent manager speak to them as well.
00:34:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And they are signings for the future and they've been thrown into it and done really well. Well, good on them. um Lots of them wouldn't wouldn't work. you know you know Some of our homegrown players haven't risen to those occasions, but they're quality players.
00:35:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I do believe you're right. We've got the makings of a really good team. um Romero for me I'm not even sure he's going to be there at the end you know at the end of the season if that if an offer comes in um because I think leave you a look at it and think well if the money's right um may as well you know let let him go um i do need to bring in someone else of course as well but he'll also look at it and think well I've got Danzo he's doing pretty good I've got Gray he can go back there blah blah blah so he's got positions there I guess but that's not the way you run a ah good team and get and make a team better of course so
00:35:42
Oliver
no No. I think people are very quick to forget how how great Romero is and there's a lot of frustration around him because he's back in time just before the international break after being out for nearly four months.
00:35:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, he
00:36:00
Oliver
But I don't really have a problem with him going off to Argentina. if she Like I think I said in the last podcast, if he plays three to four games, I don't have a problem with him going.
00:36:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:36:12
Oliver
And he's already played one and there's two more. He's probably going to play them both, providing he doesn't get another injury. So i don't I don't have a problem with it. And something crazy, he he actually so he said um on on his post on Instagram, he thanked the Argentinian ah physios for his his treatment and his recovery from his injury.
00:36:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:36:39
Oliver
And apparently Richarlison is getting help from Brazil ah with his injury. as well. So I ah ah just think that shows the absolute state of our medical team.
00:36:53
Oliver
What are they actually doing? And I think a lot of the injuries, people people can now see that it's not the way we play and the medical team are just useless.
00:37:05
Oliver
Maybe one or two of the injuries, like Mickey van der Ven running, sprinting and then doing his hammy.
00:37:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. he's His body, his body's physicality, as in the way he's made up, um he's going to get injuries injures injuries because he's a racing horse, if you like.
00:37:19
Oliver
Yeah, but majority of the injuries is down to bad luck.
00:37:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
So...
00:37:24
Oliver
And then when you don't have the backing of from Levy to bring in depth, the injuries are just going to keep piling
Injury Concerns and Substitutes' Impact
00:37:32
Oliver
up. And I think the the medical team needs a real looking at because if players are going out of out the way to go go to their national teams to get support, then there must be a big problem.
00:37:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it doesn't sound right, mate, at all, does it? It doesn't sound right at all. um We won't talk about the first-day match. We'll do a preview maybe later in the week about that or us or somebody else will.
00:38:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I would say that there's some good points from from the match anyway. There were game changers. Sonny came on. He did really well. um Obviously got the penalty as well. He looked sharp, made a difference.
00:38:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bergvau, phenomenal.
00:38:13
Oliver
brilliant outstanding yeah you love it you you you want to see that from players especially with the state we're in
00:38:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's such a good player. Even when he loses the ball, he's straight in there. he's he reminds me ah He's got tenacity, hasn't he? Sometimes a little bit. Just calm it a little bit, but you don't want to take it out of him as well. Yeah.
00:38:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, and that that must be such such a pick-me-up for any... It was a pick-me-up for me, not just watching on the TV, but if you're in the stadium in particular, that must be a massive pick-me-up, watching Bergvau really fighting for every ball and wanting to win.
00:38:38
Oliver
yeah
00:38:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
And every time he gets the ball, and he's not scared to turn and go around players and go through them straight ahead.
00:38:45
Oliver
Yeah, he's so good at carrying the ball and just driving driving the team up the pitch. and Pesuma didn't do that once. Ben Tenko didn't do that once. So, he he was just brilliant when he came on.
00:38:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'm not even sure what, you know, are they, if they're just going to sit back there and be defensive with few of them, fine, but you can't have two of them.
00:39:05
Oliver
Nah.
00:39:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's crazy. And Sar, obviously, that's, that advanced position isn't his position anyway. you He's not Yaya Toure, you know, he hasn't got that range to do it.
00:39:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, um,
00:39:16
Oliver
Yeah.
00:39:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who else? Maddison came on as well. He did pretty good, I thought. um Got the nice through ball. He does drift in ah and out a little bit though. I think he found it hard getting involved totally, but you can see his quality and it only takes one once or twice to to do that.
00:39:32
Oliver
yeah
00:39:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think that's what I was crying out for a little bit on the first half. We liked a bit of ambition. There wasn't anybody right in front for to take the ball from Romero in particular. And Romero was doing those long passes, as you suggested as well, to the wingers.
00:39:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
But again, there wasn't, when the ball was played behind Solanke into the place where you would have an unrushing attacker, that midfielder, he wasn't there. So it was difficult.
00:39:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
The bonus, I think, um where we can end this podcast on anyway is, to be honest, mate, we've got to be, if we put that team out, which played on Sunday against AZ, then we should be okay, surely.
Looking Ahead to AZ Match
00:40:14
Oliver
Yeah, I mean, the the the positive of of the second leg is we're only 1-0 down. um We have got quality in our team. We should be beating them in the 90.
00:40:29
Oliver
We have got ah extra time if we need it. ah don't I don't think we should, but yeah, I think i think it's a very recoverable.
00:40:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
um me too mate me too right that's all we've got time for I think we'll leave the pre-match stuff for somebody else um so like thanks for listening today Tottenham you've um Yeah, I think we'll be okay on Thursday.
00:40:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I was about say something else about Thursday, but I won't. um Until next time, it's goodbye from you, Super Oli Kasabi.
00:41:05
Oliver
Goodbye.
00:41:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me, Chris Mervin. You've been listening to Daily Tottenham with ourselves. Come on, you Spurs. Let's do this.