***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea, Tue May 19th, 8.15pm, Stamford Bridge ***

[Mikey10]

I just want this season over. too much stress

This. I haven't enjoyed watching us for over two years now, for the very large part. No matter what happens, I just want to see us getting back to winning some games at home and playing in an enjoyable way. My overriding feeling before and during the game last night (as it has been for months) was dread. I can't wait for that to be over. Monday morning will be a relief one way or the other. Should we go down, I think I'll get my head around it pretty quickly.

Chelsea were on a dreadful run of form, hadn’t won at home for months and had just been beaten in a cup final a few days prior. If you judge last night against the historical norm, there’s nothing to be disappointed about. If you judge the game on its own merits, it’s really disappointing.

It was a great chance to put our relegation fears to bed and we blew it which means we’ll start Sunday (and probably spend a good chunk of it) never being more than 2 kicks of a ball from relegation.

And they shuffled their team, resting some of their better players.

 

[DeanoAustin]

This. I haven't enjoyed watching us for over two years now, for the very large part. No matter what happens, I just want to see us getting back to winning some games at home and playing in an enjoyable way. My overriding feeling before and during the game last night (as it has been for months) was dread. I can't wait for that to be over. Monday morning will be a relief one way or the other. Should we go down, I think I'll get my head around it pretty quickly.


And they shuffled their team, resting some of their better players.

I think this is actually a good point. I'm not claiming there are upsides to relegation, there isn't as far as I'm concerned. I also think it'll hurt this club hugely from a financial and reputational perspective.

However, as a fan I think the thought of relegation and race to avoid it will be much worse than the actual event itself if it does come to pass. Regardless of what happens, most of us will still be here for as long as our arses look south and life will go on.

 

[Jurgen the German]

I never said I'm confident But I do think we can get at least a point, like I say Brighton and Leeds aren't any worse than Everton and even then it's far from guaranteed West Ham win. But obviously anything can happen....

West Ham have also been there before. This is new territory for us as a club in almost 50 years and for most of these players in their careers. I really hope the players and the club fully understand the seriousness of this situation now. And I hope they aren’t going into the game half-heartedly thinking they will get a move should we go down. They should be thinking I can’t have a relegation on my CV.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Not feeling the best this morning.

I think it's the situation of being squeezed into a final game...no other options/permutations, no alternative levers to pull.....just turn up Sunday and 2x 90 min games decide our fate.

Maybe its that impending finality I don't deal well with? (5 days of it)
Not trusting us doesn't help. I trust RDZ, but he's not on the field.
Gawd knows what it's like to play in a game like this?
Why do I have the 'funeral march' looping around in my head?

 

[Mikey10]

West Ham have also been there before. This is new territory for us as a club in almost 50 years and for most of these players in their careers. I really hope the players and the club fully understand the seriousness of this situation now. And I hope they aren’t going into the game half-heartedly thinking they will get a move should we go down. They should be thinking I can’t have a relegation on my CV.

Slightly worrying that he even feels he needs to say this below, although I suppose he has to say something...

De Zerbi tells Spurs to play for their ‘dignity’ in final-day relegation battle

Roberto De Zerbi says Tottenham’s final-day relegation showdown against Everton is a more important game than last season’s Europa League final

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

Chelsea were on a dreadful run of form, hadn’t won at home for months and had just been beaten in a cup final a few days prior. If you judge last night against the historical norm, there’s nothing to be disappointed about. If you judge the game on its own merits, it’s really disappointing.

It was a great chance to put our relegation fears to bed and we blew it which means we’ll start Sunday (and probably spend a good chunk of it) never being more than 2 kicks of a ball from relegation.

Yea agreed, I thought it was a really disappointing performance.

The front 3 playing badly you kind of accept, as they’re all we’ve got left, a complete mismatch of an attacking unit that doesn’t compliment each other in any way, but there’s literally no alternative, so we deal with it..

The midfield 3 yesterday were my biggest disappointment, each one of them played well below expectations, RDZ really should have changed that up just after HT, they were having stinkers. Similarly Idogie was having a shocker and the Spence sub really could have been done at HT.

Opportunity missed yesterday. Having said all that the stats were very much in our favour and suggest we should have won it.?

 

[DeanoAustin]

Not feeling the best this morning.

I think it's the situation of being squeezed into a final game...no other options/permutations, no alternative levers to pull.....just turn up Sunday and 2 90 min games decide our fate.

Maybe its that impending finality I don't deal well with? (5 days of it)
Not trusting us doesn't help. I trust RDZ, but he's not on the field.
Gawd knows what it's like to play in a game like this?
Why do I have the 'funeral march' looping around in my head?

Me too. I don't believe in fate but if it does exist, I can see the final narrative being written now. "Spurs bring in a top manager to give them hope which he duly does before they pluck relegation from the jaws of survival in spectacular fashion over the last two games and are sent down by West Ham of all clubs".

The stuff of nightmares. When we get some distance from this season, there will be so much to try and make sense of.

 

[Bishop]

Yea agreed, I thought it was a really disappointing performance.

The front 3 playing badly you kind of accept, as they’re all we’ve got left, a complete mismatch of an attacking unit that doesn’t compliment each other in any way, but there’s literally no alternative, so we deal with it..

The midfield 3 yesterday were my biggest disappointment, each one of them played well below expectations, RDZ really should have changed that up just after HT, they were having stinkers. Similarly Idogie was having a shocker and the Spence sub really could have been done at HT.

Opportunity missed yesterday. Having said all that the stats were very much in our favour and suggest we should have won it.?

With regards to the midfield I don't think he rates (quite fairly) the options that Bergvall and Gray give him. In retrospect there is obviously an argument that changing it would been for the better but if the manager doesn't really rate the other options then he's stuck between a rock and a hard place really. Does he make the change just for the sake of it, or does he stick the starting 11 that he thought would do a better job anyway?

 

[Jurgen the German]

Yea agreed, I thought it was a really disappointing performance.

The front 3 playing badly you kind of accept, as they’re all we’ve got left, a complete mismatch of an attacking unit that doesn’t compliment each other in any way, but there’s literally no alternative, so we deal with it..

The midfield 3 yesterday were my biggest disappointment, each one of them played well below expectations, RDZ really should have changed that up just after HT, they were having stinkers. Similarly Idogie was having a shocker and the Spence sub really could have been done at HT.

Opportunity missed yesterday. Having said all that the stats were very much in our favour and suggest we should have won it.?

Definitely a missed opportunity. The atmosphere felt flat from watching it on tv. Understandable to a degree as they’ve just lost a cup final, but would have thought given the opportunity to put us in trouble would have enhanced the atmosphere. It was only really Palmer and Enzo that turned up for them. I was content with the performance until they scored, but in the back of my mind I knew we’d struggle to score/create anything.