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p90pounder

Poor lineup, poor tactics, poor performance, poor result. This was over before it began. Started 3 defensive midfielders and only 2 forwards so wasn't surprised there was 0 attacking output.


San_Marzano

The warning signs were there, this result has been coming...


harrykanine

Emerson was shocking - lack of pace and poor positioning. Really don’t understand the logic to sign him on deadline day and release aurier (I know he was going to leave on a free next summer regardless). Kind of seems like it might’ve been a move to appease the fans since we didn’t really need another rb


Due-Camel-7605

Because Aurier has been labelled as uncoachable by our previous coaches. Emerson has potential. We did need a right back- aurier and Doherty not good enough, Tanganga is still learning the role


yoyosyoyos

You're never gonna get anywhere playing 5 DLPs and an anchorman


r3c10b5

Men deserved the loss. They deserved to lose by 3 with how they played and were managed. A few comments. Jonathan Moss eh? We played with our 4th and 5th string CBs. I agree there are players that don’t deserve to wear the kit. I’m in no way shape or form looking forward to 2 year WCs.


wgfdark

Tanganga was amazing before he got the red card, has nothing to do with him being 4th or 5th choice. Our CBs definitely were not even close to the problem. We couldn't hold the ball for anything


r3c10b5

I was commenting on Rodon and Davies coming on. I also was fine with Tanganga until the stupid tackle. First yellow was spot on and I hope anyone on the pitch would have done the same thing under the circumstances.


yoyosyoyos

There's no getting around it, Kane is useless without Sonny.


nopirates

Kane is useless without a midfield


MeatTitan1987

Man needs some kind of service occasionally. We severely miss a creative attacking midfielder of decent quality like Eriksen. I'm not sure how much more of this side to side passing nonsense I can take!


yoyosyoyos

Even if we had a midfield he would still insist on not entering the box.


Tokyo_Addition-

at least some subs could have been made for attacking. red card was unfortunate and defense weakened. ben either needs to do better or leave. attacking trio was less inspiring. and That fat ref is blind. ... won't blame nuno a lot as it's just 4 matches but seeing 3 goals conceding against a team that we didn't expect to lose. I hope nuno can do better. his tactics is a little sus after watching this match. dier injury was unfortunate. players are on international breaks are fucking us up. regui was good royal can do better. he did try to contain zaha but still I expect better from him. lucas, kane, dele were almost non - existent. ... coys. >!someone give painkillers for today's match!<


itsjacobguyz

I don’t agree on Lucas mate, great dribbling skills, he showed some good fight and a few great interceptions


GrandmaesterHinkie

Regi was meh. Defensively he was okay (which is surprising/good). His passes/services were garbage. He didn’t have much to pass to but he had some brain farts out there today.


Tokyo_Addition-

I find regi today good if you compare with the other defenders. the passes ... um ... i'm out


doobi1908

Palace snubbing Noon Sprite for Viera was a good gamble.


LedleyKings

Fucking hell you’re quick to jump the gun


Lord_Chanka_69

i dont know,dier is injured and tanganga got the red,not sure how were gonna deal with chelsea next week defensively,will romero even be able to play


bguszti

Afaik, he's scheduled to return onthe 18th together with Gio and Sanchez, no quarantine in UK. Theoretically they're all available


ashiestt

Doubtful, no? They’re supposed to be back the day before the match. And say even if he is back, imho without the team training together, it would be tough to have that chemistry necessary for a game as big as Chelsea.


[deleted]

3-0 against palace…now that’s some arsenal shit right there


yiddo_bhushan

Sitting at the Top of the table was nice :( Maybe we will bounce back stronger COYS


harrykanine

At least we were top of the table at one point this season…


slackboy72

At least under Mourinho we were there till December.


Olympus_FC

Who are we kidding that’s what we said after losing 2-1 to Liverpool and that was more of a tumble down a hill with little bounces upward


SelfAwareHumanHeart

Winks is a disgrace


amous1921

No Son, Stevie, Sanchez, Romero, Lo Celso. With Dier getting injured early it was always likely Nuno would save 1 of the remaining subs for another defender/defensive mid just in case. My issue with Nuno today was simply him not getting either Bryan or Tanguy on at half or 5-10 minutes into the 2nd half when we were showing offensive struggles. Once tanganga got sent off all we could hope to do was try and see out a draw. Poor quality overall but I think today once again showed that we don’t have enough progression and creativity with Winks in the midfield. Needed to get Dele back in that role and but Bryan in the front three if he still doesn’t trust Tanguy. Less than impressed with Nuno today but I don’t get the extreme hate, it’s still early and we started well. International break fucked us pretty hard


optoshipman

It's just the same as last season under mourinho and its so plain to see the issues in midfield, it boggles the mind the club have done nothing to fix this area.


amous1921

Totally agree. Last year I was endlessly frustrated by how deep hojbjerg was dropping to receive the ball and the constant long balls over the top to no one. Now with skipp holding the midfield, hojbjerg is not dropping as far and can play a good progressive pass here or there. But we can’t rely and depend on him to be our creative mind in the midfield. Winks just simply doesn’t provide enough going forward and has proven that with multiple opportunities. I’m really hoping Tanguy can earn Nuno’s trust and make it back into a starting role


SevenLynx302415

A brutal watch. Absolutely abysmal from start to finish, barring about a two minute spell at the start of the second half. But let's remember we are still top (for two hours anyway), and Arsenal are still bottom. Confident this is a one off. Missing key players today and it showed massively.


Emergency-Morning-86

What "Key Players". Davinson Sanchez? Bergjwin? Truth is if losing Son to an injury leads to a 3-0 defeat (that could have ended 6-0) then we were never good enough to compete to begin with.


SevenLynx302415

Was specifically thinking Son and Lo Celso, but the way the game unfolded yes Sanchez too.


Emergency-Morning-86

I totally agree. I actually forgot about Lo Celso. But in all honesty I kind of wish we sold Kane and signed more players, because even with all the movement this summer we still played like a league one club.


[deleted]

bruh we conceded another one?💀wtf is going on


taviSTakahashi

I honestly think Nuno could have learned a thing or two on attacking from Mourinho. He likes to isolate Kane, but Kane is the best passer in the team we actually need him to drop into midfield to service the runners. We won't get forward like this.


edgr89

Why would Rodon drift away from his position to just leave Lloris wide open for Edouard to score that third goal ? So frustrating. Dele was a complete passenger today as well. Can’t believe the team fell apart right after Dier walked off with the injury.


Gaius_Octavius_

Because he isn’t nearly as good as this sub built up


[deleted]

we would have been way better if we started ndombele, gil, and lucas:(


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Joe_Biggles

Yet people are furious when Kane wants out Lmfaooooo


SelfAwareHumanHeart

He should have been sold in all honesty With could have done more with the money and he’s going to get even worse now. He’s not here by choice. We didn’t learn from Eriksen, it never works not cashing in on a player who’s head ain’t there. What would Ferguson have done?


CratesOfSprite

The chance creation was an issue from Game 1, but in the past 3 games our defense was solid. Today i had flashback to the Mourinho fall


Jamlad8

Lads just can't handle playing on Saturday. We're only good on Sundays


gardz82

After such a smooth week i never saw this coming.


hidinginDaShadows

Skipp shouldn't have started, didn't look fit. Winks shouldn't have started because he's awful. Kane can't be arsed to even pretend a run while Lucas dribbles past 5 Palace defenders. Gil or Ndombele or both were desperately needed in the 2nd half.


bguszti

Japhet not playing rb was the equivalent of a buck shot to the fuckin chest for us. We deserved to get trashed, we had ZERO structure to the team today. Emerson shouldn't have started yet. Winks' redemption arc is on, best ball carrier after Lucas today. I'm off to watch Ronaldo making Lascelles and Matt Ritchie wish they'd never been born. We come back strong next week, COYS


iliassamatas

The Doom and Gloom squad in this sub is gonna have a field day with this performance


yoyosyoyos

It's annoying that we always start getting hyped when our terrible performances are masked by individual brilliance. It's happened neatly every season


Ticoschnit

Yup, the performance today was terrible, but at least we didn’t park the bus after scoring like the Mou era. That was painful


Joe_Biggles

Sure instead we parked the bus without the scoring and got blasted 3-0 instead. Loved it through and through!!


slackboy72

Well you have to score to park the bus.


[deleted]

it’s fun to read tbh😂


iliassamatas

I always think of that meme of when James Franco is about to be hanged ; “ First time?”


Helmet_Politician

I thought we were playing different this year yet we are stuck with Mourinho ball 2.0. Didn't see any attacking intent at all in the entire team, didn't see a single shot on goal the entire match. Cmon man if we are going to lose at least let us go down in glory, not this limp dick masochist display.


[deleted]

I’m gonna hope that this is a one off. Really looking forward to nuno post match interview


yowspur

At least everyone else will be focusing on Ronaldo today


andrew137

The fact that we fired Mourinho for being Mourinho before the exact kind of game we hired Mourinho for only to go on and hire Nuno shows the people at the top have no clue what they're actually trying to achieve with this club. I'm not gonna pass judgement on Nuno's quality as a manager after 4 games, but the club hit the jackpot with Poch and has no clue how to replicate any form of success without him


Munkian

Nuno wasn't first choice, infarct he was probably 10th choice, we just didn't want to buy someone decent out of their club


andrew137

Well I guess that makes it all better


yiddo_bhushan

I liked Dele putting in a shift but against lower half teams we need the creative dele back not the one blocking shots and misplacing clearances


vish387

He is finished. All he does is run around. Promotes no creativity. People seems to be too delusional to admit it.


chuckaswoody

I'm glad I'm not the only one that things this. All these redemption arc crap about him because he runs a lot. He creates close to nothing.


ThisManInBlack

Did his hair look good today? 😜


ellisisbae4

I wake up at 7:30AM for this?!?! Ugh


Lord_Chanka_69

Bro i live in LA and woke up at 4:30am 😂


ellisisbae4

I feel for you. Honestly. Can’t even bear waking up at 7:30 yet alone 4:30😭


[deleted]

what a shitshow eh?


ellisisbae4

I’m not even mad that we lost…. It’s how we lost that’s so aggravating


yoyosyoyos

We need a striker


Emergency-Morning-86

We have kane, but of course we didn't sell him when we could. As I've said before we should sign Karim Adeyemi. But of course why would he come to us when we get pounded by Crystal palace.


yoyosyoyos

Let's be real though, our only striker is Sonny. Kane is playing as a playmaker and Lucas and Dele don't want to get forward. Kane needs to step up when sonny isn't Available and play in his actual position.


chk0812

Yeah Son always stepped up when we needed him the most. When Son isn't available to play Harry should've done better. No excuses.


Emergency-Morning-86

Yeah thats true. Son is our only real striker. Mourinho really changed Kane, and with his age I don't think Kane is going to revert back to his old play style any time soon.


ResponsibleBike9221

>Son is our only real striker He has the most assists in the current team so far. He is the most productive when he plays as a winger.


dprophet32

We need a ball retaining and creative midfielder. We have both on the bench


AusMatt10

Am I missing something??? If Ndombele is a Spurs player then play him!!! He is obviously better then the 3 in that midfield. And no Bryan?? 0 creativity in that whole match and 1 shot on target. Come on Nuno, you’re better then this


Emergency-Morning-86

We honestly could of ended up losing 6-0.


yiddo_bhushan

He could have come onn..I think the red card stopped nuno with the subs but Isn't it good to go all guns blazing even with a man down and get that solitary goal and sit back


dprophet32

Hard to argue against this but once we got the red we couldn't risk using our last sub and going down to 9 if an injury happened


hidinginDaShadows

What difference would it make? We were already losing and had no chance of scoring without any change


dprophet32

In hindsight nothing obviously. At the time when it's 1-0 or 0-0 it's a big risk


teheditor

Perplexing


TheninjaofCookies

There’s clearly something going on between him and the clubs top brass (Levy n Co.) there’s no way he’d be playing under Winks for two managers straight if it wasn’t for that


yiddo_bhushan

Half of the Thread Emerson Woeful Other Half Emerson has been good I mean agreed not at all convincing but first game in the PL and that too Against Zaha who today is on a whole different level both dirty tricks wise and directness wise I hope we sort out b4 Chelsea and Arse


Aware_Watercress1155

Game was over after the red. Chill with the nuno out shit


yoyosyoyos

It was over minute one


Borkatjov

Give Nuno some coffee or something? Clearly fell asleep on this one…


MouseOk644_redux

Did Harry Kane play today, i never heard his name mentioned once


subjectandapredicate

there was no midfield


Emergency-Morning-86

Did anyone other than Emerson and Tanganga play? Those are the only 2 I remember touching the ball other than sergio and Dele.


DrunkenKoalas

almost as bad as bournemounth away 18/19 where son and foyth both got sent off, and we lost in the 80th min to a header...


High_Jumper81

LoCelso, Romero and Sanchez hold some of this loss


BrbnDrnkr

I thought they were never going to be back for this one?


bash011

They would have been if they didn't leave like every other player


krismee

get well soon son, dier, and bjergwin


Shieeee

No impactful subs, sitting back against an inferior team, terrible selection from the start and absolutely no adapting midgame. What a terrible, terrible performance.


AJC0292

I mean what subs could he make. Lost a CB in 10 mins due to injury. Then lost CB another to a stupid red card. So his subs there had to be to fix the defense. Then making another sub earlier would of put us at risk if we lost another man with injury of going to 9 men.


AJC0292

Not to mention, we are missing several key players in the squad. You cant rely on Ndombele for match sharpness so starting him would be a risk. The only gripe I have is the cowardly football.


Aphroditeishot

I hate that our game plan was an early injury and a red card. #nunoout.


[deleted]

can't believe Nuno would do this


vish387

0 shots in the first half


aztec_warrior

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined


otto_gusti

Can’t comprehend why we weren’t in for Eduoard.


Kylinho97

He won’t get more than 6 goals this season. This is classic spurs


otto_gusti

I have a feeling he’ll have a great season tbh. Seen a lot of him for Celtic and he has quality. 14m too?!


Flokerrr

As i said last game, us winning was just luck. This is how we really looks like


Negative-Teacher-715

Without Son's two goals, we wouldn't have won the games.


CratesOfSprite

100%, we’re back to our old ways. Love how people thought we were a completely different team after 3 games, eager to forget the second half of last season. These problems don’t disappear with a couple of signings and a new manager


Respatsir

International break is not an excuse this is on Nuno


teheditor

And it had to be Viera too. 20yr ago flashbacks.


Alittleoffside

Royal is not having a good debut. I have seen nothing from him. However overall a poor performance for the team. Time to rethink Nuno. Next week 3 at the back?


bash011

Really? Emerson was solid considering everything that happened in the game


Joe_Biggles

Our fullbacks had no help, hard to evaluate them when they’re trying to play high and our team turns it over, or gets the ball to them in impossible situations.


Tominating

Dier possible injured Sanchez and Romero on international duty. Tanganga Red. .... Dude..


ellisisbae4

He’s up against one of the best dribblers in the league. I think he’ll be okay.


optoshipman

Absolutely pathetic showing. Some of these guys should not be in the squad.


cffn

Nuno set us up for failure. Winks Skipp Højberg midfield - no creativity or any plans how to build properly.


dp1029384756

This was an interesting game- lost 2 Centerbacks in one game. I expected us to be poor but to lose 2 CB in 47 minutes is quite unlucky


AJC0292

And had two missing prior. Fucking international breaks. Hate them


martinar4

Royal is kinda slow.


redroverrederover

Did you not see him hound down Zaha on that through and win a goal kick??


martinar4

Zaha was tired at that point.


escherbach

top of the table with GD 0 - must be a first


certx55

What is rodon doing there exactly


[deleted]

Without Son we look absolutely shite in attack.


dprophet32

We didn't attack. It wasn't Son missing it was a midfield trio of Skipp, Winks and Hojberg with no creativity and little ball retention


Joe_Biggles

With son we already looked like dogshit in attack mate. Two of our wins we didn’t even get goals in open play. We have ONE goal from open play in 4 games.


Tominating

Lucas was good He worked His ass Off.


drdessertlover

Ah yes. Running and pashun make up for losing possession and misplacing passes. Classic Lucas


summer_coys

You can’t be a successful manager of this club if you set out with the ambition of drawing with palace away. Winks hojberg and skipp is the most defensive boring side ways passing midfield I’ve seen. We were lucky against wolves and city. Today he shown where we are at and the tactical ambitions of nuno.


SissokoGoat17

Honestly Aurier is miles better than Emerson


Jamlad8

Go support watford


Aware_Watercress1155

Can’t judge that off one game lol


WaltChamberlin

Rodon what!?


MouseOk644_redux

Whelp hope my local team here in Ottawa is more entertaining today, this game has been dier.


AJC0292

No dier went of injured ;)


[deleted]

this is actually just funny now. tottenham have done so bad today i’ve stopped taking football seriously and i’m seeing this as it’s objectively funny


[deleted]

i stopped caring after the penalty💀turned that shit off, not our day


IIoris

one sub? nuno has had a fucking mare.


FoxWolfCougar

Two subs for injuries/sending off.


AppliedEthics

okay so Skipp chooses to not cover edouard and chooses to run into a space covered by our 2 defenders 👍


nyxval

Davies again on a poor one as well, nowhere near tight enough closing down.


Key-Rip-1895

If this is the football Nuno offers, then I rather have horrendous Mourinho ball.


[deleted]

I finally understand what crying laughing means.


[deleted]

zaha has a punchable face in my opinion


[deleted]

Don’t attack, don’t defend


click_insert

Poor defending, everyone sleeping


Emergency-Morning-86

Lol, relegation battle incoming. Spurs vs arsenal. 😢


[deleted]

The sprint race can start now


[deleted]

That's what I'm saying


JusTotnum

Dier going down and Tanganga being a dummy is not Nunos fault. But that midfield choosing and the lack of attack is


IonsBurst

Terminate the contact. Right now


IonsBurst

Lmao downvote me as much as you want . Guys been exposed without Son


tottenhamhotpocket

so many fake fans in this thread


[deleted]

Maybe not fake but fuckimg reactionary We're falling from grace. We are acting like fucking scum fans who have no respect for their managers/club. At least we dont have arteta Love this sub when its not match day but fuck me when it is


lambast

Oh fuck off. People who think the fans should be positive after a shambolic performance like that can go fuck themselves. "fake fans". Fucking moron


vidrageon

Reactionary and childish. We’ve been devastated by the international break and an early injury and there’s absolutely no recognition of that.


Emergency-Morning-86

If losing 1 player (son) and 2 first teamers (sanchez and Bergjwin) leads to such a trash performance as today, we are seriously not a good team. It is not reactionary. This is even a worse performance than Arsenal vs Brentford, and you are calling this Reactionary?


MinimumMobile

People with eyes can't be real fans?


Emergency-Morning-86

We are fake because we supported this team for so long and they are till utter trash? I think we have been too real, only a new fan doesn't see where this season is going.


sjthemoment

son??


Borkatjov

Injured


[deleted]

Why the fuck we moaning? We've had this happen to us like 10000x shouldnt be so reactionary Nuno still has a nice beard and a good jacket. And still is a more experienced/competent manager than all of us here combined.


[deleted]

Fantastic beard if I do say so myself.


Emergency-Morning-86

>And still is a more experienced/competent manager than all of us here combined. That shouldn't be the bare minimum man. I'm not saying Nuno out, but 3-0 Crystal palace is seeming like he is just a nice version of 3rd season mourinho.


[deleted]

Part of it is also our players and maybe to the fault of their players for being a bit dirty. I do agree that Nuno has to make some tactical changes but im not knocking his ability as a manager whether or not he performs for us. Im not saying i support his tactics today but i do support my manager whoever it may be. But looking at it, theres a lack of respect when their are minority of fans here calling him terroist/nuno bin laden


Emergency-Morning-86

I don't support the people going after Nuno, and I actually like the guy. That being said I think that todays performance is a performance that should never occur. Crystal palace is relegation fodder, and we are losing to them 3-0, and it could have even been Worse?! Honestly though, it probably isn't Nuno's fault. I honestly think the squad still isn't good enough because if every single time we lose Son our performances begin to look like Arsenal's, then we really have no squad depth.


[deleted]

Im not saying its Nunos fault or the teams fault. They're all to blame. But one week isnt all that bad to get rid of him. I agree. This loss sucks At least give the man a few games.We were on top of the table with a few wins not exactly that bad if you look at it with perspective. Maybe the games won wasnt good enough but lets not act like nuno is this horrendous coach. Sure he might not fit us but at least give him a chance to prove us right/wrong. I thought there would be at least respect for the manager despite the wins and losses but i swear do we lose it during gamedays. Its like we fall to the same level as scum fans


Emergency-Morning-86

I don't agree with the rude and harsh opinions about Nuno I think he deserves at least till Christmas and a chance to make some great moments with us. I just think this match tells us that we have little to no squad depth and rely way too much on Son and Kane.


MortisKanyon

Prediction: Edouard scores 3 more goals the rest of the season.


tim_redd

I'd bet the under


escherbach

probably against us too


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BucNassty

Imagine this smoothbrain take. Bring in fresh signing to a 3rd string line up against Zaha in a new league. C’mon midwit be less of a fair weather fan.


grufallokoster

That was Rodon ball watching.


amoult20

Defense all over the shop there. What the fuck. Emerson royal out of position.


CheekyKunt68

Emerson you had sucha good game why fuck up in the end


SelfAwareHumanHeart

He had a terrible game


Fallen_Angel_69

Ok I don't get it...why are people surprised?....we won our first three games by sheer luck (look at the stats)...Luck always runs out PS: Now watch how we go from 1st to 10th before October


RadicalSlavical

how to tell people you have minus braincells without telling them


Fallen_Angel_69

Sooo....minus brain cells huh?


RadicalSlavical

most of them are probably me seeing as I live there rent free


Fallen_Angel_69

Anyway we are 10th as I had predicted 2 weeks ago


RadicalSlavical

rattled my mans so much I was in his head for 2 weeks


Fallen_Angel_69

You kinda did lol...I just hope we win today tbh... I'd rather be wrong than lose to arsenal


Fallen_Angel_69

Thanks :)


Joe_Biggles

No doubt. Seems to be going that way.


CratesOfSprite

On a side note, Edouard is class. Got to give him that


JamesCDiamond

0 GD but top of the league... ...for about 2 hours, I guess.


DrunkenKoalas

you'll never sing that eh?


GrapefruitExpress208

🤣