***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Borussia Dortmund - first leg***

[Spur of the moment]

Tough examination, this, we're doing well to stay in touch.

But if we're to carry any sort of threat down the left second half Chadli really needs to stop attempting to dribble through twenty-five defenders every time he gets the ball and slip it instantly to own of our own instead. Not rocket science.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Dembele on to give us some rest from their press

Kane on to give their CH's something to think about (and maybe stop them strolling forward)

Then either Walker to muscle up on the right or Lamela to come on and annoy the f*ck out of them while just avoiding a red.

 

[King of Norway]

COME ON YOU SPURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Spur of the moment]

Just back whilst it's HT. 1-0 ain't a bad score for us at the minute.

I'd like to see Dembele for Onomah, Kane for Chadli and Lamela for Son. By about the 60th min. A 2-1 defeat would be a decent result imo. No need to panic.

You what? Onomah's been absolutely our best going forward. Dembele for Carroll would make more sense especially as the latter has already been booked.

 

[Baleforce]

They are up there with PSG and Bayern. This was alway going to be very very scary.

I don't know what people were expecting.

I was expecting this from them, but I thought we would handle it better, it's all been a bit panicky

 

[Modric THFC]

We need to believe a little more. Lack conviction and our press seems very fragmented. We are clearly petrified of their pace and quality going forward.

Its hard for a player on the pitch to believe when they look around and all the see is second choice players. There has to be more than one player wondering why the fudge did we play the full team away to Qarabag, 3 days before a chance to humiliate a broken Chelsea for this?

What a waste of 8 games. Same thing in the Europa every year.

At the start of the season - "we should play the kids"
First time we put out a strong line up - "trust the manager"
Reach knocks out and field an under strength team against a club that doesn't need to rotate - "league is priority at this stage in the season"

Thank fudge we wont have to deal with this next year.

 

[monkeybarry]

What the fk is the point in playing in this tournament? Play all those matches, long trips etc and then put that team out in the first meaningful challenge we Face. We will be 3 down here by the end if we are lucky....joke! On a par with Rogers playing a weakened team in Madrid last year, very poor from Poch!

Usually I would agree.

But assuming you can't play the "first xi" every week, would you prefer to fight for Lge or the EL?

We didn't expect to be 2nd on 10 March.
This is a good learning curve now too. See if the fringe or EL players can deliver, and to what level

 

[milo]

Two things

Onomah doesn't look out of place

The ref is making an odd set of calls... Carroll should have had a ref by normal standards for example

Two things

If we ever needed Steff's positivity that time is now. Tell me that everything will be alright @thfcsteff

If we are playing the blame game, I think that we are missing the main culprit. I am looking at you @LemonadeMoney and your bloody awful OMT.

 

[Hidden]

I don't get why Poch didn't make HT subs if he really expects us to pass BvB.
We'll probably be loosing with 2 goal margin when he finally decides to make any changes...

 

[monkeybarry]

Seriously though, Dortmund play 11 aside like a 5 aside team.

 

[Baleforce]

Its hard for a player on the pitch to believe when they look around and all the see is second choice players. There has to be more than one player wondering why the fudge did we play the full team away to Qarabag, 3 days before a chance to humiliate a broken Chelsea for this?

What a waste of 8 games. Same thing in the Europa every year.

At the start of the season - "we should play the kids"
First time we put out a strong line up - "trust the manager"
Reach knocks out and field an under strength team against a club that doesn't need to rotate - "league is priority at this stage in the season"

Thank fudge we wont have to deal with this next year.

I can't see Poch putting a player with that attitude on the pitch

 

[SpurMeUp]

Carol has to do better with his passing - his strength right?!

 

[Hidden]

okay, we got absolutely lucky now

 

[paxtonwolf]

Was that not a penalty?

 

[SpurMeUp]

That could have been a pen!

 

[Rock Strongo]

That's a FK anywhere else on the pitch.

 

[Hootnow]

We're getting taken apart a bit here

 

[paxtonwolf]

Ref saw that foul though didnt he?

 

[Baleforce]

refs been bad for both teams

 

[Hidden]

Mason and Carroll have been outmuscled like school players in most episodes of the game.