This is why Spurs were always the “Elephant on the branch” this season. All credit to Ange he’s come in and got them playing exciting football in a season where they’ve lost their talisman.
But the people putting them in title contention conversation really showed their lack of knowledge. It’s unsustainable for a full season to allow that many chances to be conceded and have a chance at winning the league.
Defensive, patient football can be ugly but it wins you games and subsequently titles
While true it has to be said that Arsenal conceded most of their goals last season after Saliba got injured, along with other injuries affecting their ability to rotate and cover like Tomiyasu, and key ingredients to their transition from defence to midfield like Zinchenko (also Saliba). They started conceding lots of goals even against weaker opposition. This also affected their ability to impact the game further up the pitch.
I personally think that if they had continued the same form as the first half of the season, they would have won the league. They had already shown resilience in scraping wins in ugly games, showing patience and strong mentality to win.
Up until the Chelsea game our defensive record was really good. We weren’t conceding much and a lot of games we had narrowly won 2-1 1-0 2-0 sometimes scoring late other times by just keeping composure the full 90. It’s only now that we have an injury crisis at the back plus Romeros red card that we are conceding chances like crazy (look at the wolves game)
This is why Spurs were always the “Elephant on the branch” this season. All credit to Ange he’s come in and got them playing exciting football in a season where they’ve lost their talisman.
But the people putting them in title contention conversation really showed their lack of knowledge. It’s unsustainable for a full season to allow that many chances to be conceded and have a chance at winning the league.
Defensive, patient football can be ugly but it wins you games and subsequently titles
While true it has to be said that Arsenal conceded most of their goals last season after Saliba got injured, along with other injuries affecting their ability to rotate and cover like Tomiyasu, and key ingredients to their transition from defence to midfield like Zinchenko (also Saliba). They started conceding lots of goals even against weaker opposition. This also affected their ability to impact the game further up the pitch.
I personally think that if they had continued the same form as the first half of the season, they would have won the league. They had already shown resilience in scraping wins in ugly games, showing patience and strong mentality to win.
Up until the Chelsea game our defensive record was really good. We weren’t conceding much and a lot of games we had narrowly won 2-1 1-0 2-0 sometimes scoring late other times by just keeping composure the full 90. It’s only now that we have an injury crisis at the back plus Romeros red card that we are conceding chances like crazy (look at the wolves game)
But Spurs were playing that boring football in previous seasons before Ange?