Tottenham has just one win in their last six Premier League games and the ESPN FC panel are none too happy about Jose Mourinho's defensive tactics. Craig Burley, Jurgen Klinsmann and Frank Leboeuf share their thoughts on Tottenham's 1-1 draw vs. Fulham with the crew agreeing Spurs should be dominating more games. Burley and Leboeuf place the blame squarely on Mourinho, with both wondering if the manager will ever evolve his tactics. The guys also discuss Gareth Bale starting on the bench and wonder why he hasn't played more this season.
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and Stevie as the throw-in coach. The 3 Amigos . . . . . unleashed.
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Wednesday: play sisoko on the wing
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Obviously some players are not even good enough. Sissoko is not a footballer, winks thinks he is Sergio Busquet, Aurier is not good at all ( please don't mention he is improving) , Matt Doherty should return to Wolves, Mourinho thinks Sissoko is Messi. I forgot Sanchez should be sent to reserves. Eric Dier thinks he is better than Paolo Maldini.
The way they are playing, Kane and Son would demand to leave Spurs
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Inability to defend a lead and/or finish off teams 🤦
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how mourinho is a bad manager
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All those deluded Spurs fans who said Mourinho couldn't win in UTD coz he wasn't backed by Woodward lol. Do u see now why Mourinho can't win and he is washed?
Coz he parks the bus against teams which are sitting at bottom as well.
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The way he sets up is to restrict the game as much as possible, and trust that his more expensive players will make the difference up top. If you have the more talented players, and a game is going to be decided upon a moment of magic, then you will win most of the time. Equally, in a cup competition when you face an opponent of equal stature then you always have a punter's chance, and as it is easier to set up to counter attack than playing creative, expansive football, you're weighing the odds in your favour again: most financially powerful sides demand playing attractive football, so (a) they come on to your deep defence whilst you get to play your normal game and exploit the space they leave at the back (with your extremely expensively acquired forwards) whilst they pile on the pressure, or (b) you play a scrappy game which you are more used to playing than your opponents.
It's essentially trying to weigh the odds in your favour and then rolling the dice. Weigh them heavily enough and you regularly pick up the 3 points.
Where it comes unstuck is when you are playing a top side in a cup competition which scores first (think Liverpool in CL 2004/05) or when the quality of the 'lesser' teams starts to improve. The standard of the lesser teams in the PL now is better than it has ever been (it's just that over the last few years Man City and Liverpool have been far superior to anything the Premier League has seen before so people who just look at the numbers rather than the matches themselves can't see it) and so those odds aren't as good for Jose as they were before. If you're going into each game with an 80/20 chance then playing the odds is a far better strategy than when you go in with a 60/40 chance.
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We all tired of seeing this at this point
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1) Liverpool
2) Man City
3) Leicester City
4) Spurs
(And 5th will be Southampton)
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