Micky van de Ven

[thfcsteff]

It's a good shout. When Kane got 30 goals, we conceded over 60 in the PL. Kane was equally culpable for that abysmal goals against column such was the little impact he had defending from the top. Then we had 2 injury ravaged Ange seasons and conceded over 60 goals both times. This time though, the team was setup to have 10 outfield players working hard until they drop. Then Frank arrived and I was hoping that he would have more clue about faucets when it comes to football because ours clearly leaks. However, a community of Spurs fans are never gonna behold a better defensive record. If that happens they will moan about it not being the Spurs way. Now we're seeing the faucet leaking again under Frank and I think that is reason to panic a little. That wasn't in the script right?

Nope.
In 2016/17, we had a manager who was putting out a side which were wonderful to watch and only conceded 26 goals in 38 league games. The season before was 35.
It can be done and done repeatedly.

A good start in this current set-up, IMO, would be to play the CBs higher up the pitch in order to take better advantage of their top skill-sets. Combined with the fact we no longer invert and push FBs in the way we did under Frank's predecessor, I think we'd stand a better chance of creating and also preventing more.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Personally I struggle to remember the last time we were solid in defence.

Probably when Dier ran off to the loo at halftime?