was entertaining.
Spurs endured another dismal day, with another dismal display, as all the happy clappies made all the excuses for Ange being out-coached yet again, as the lost 6-3 at home.
Apparently they’re all entertained because goals. Like all good NPCs “I see goals, I liek goals”.
Well currently Liverpool sit atop the league having lost 1 game and scoring 37, while Spurs sit 11th having lost more than they’ve won, scoring 39, having played one game more. Which is more entertaining.
But injuries. They scream. Yeah, because no other team has injuries – they’re as bad as Newcastle last season, whinging about it. Liverpool lost their keeper for a while. Didn’t have to rely on a dried up ol’ lump in games did they? They’ve been without all their back four at numerous times throughout the season. Only lost 1 game.
The squads were pretty full for those displays against Palace and Ipswich, no matter what the happy clappies say about Werner not being available. Or the laughable, Spence had only made the bench. Yeah mate, why is that, why is it that Spence has only made the team in December of Ange’s second season. Could it be Ange.
But Micky was missing from the Ipswich game. Yeah and whose fault is that. Ange. Ange has knackerd the Rolls Royce. His defensive “tactics” of bombing everyone forward and leaving vdV to cover the whole of the Spurs’ half has left the Dutchman’s hamstring shredded and just waiting to ping.
You can’t blame Ange. Well, yes you can. He went into the season with just three centre-backs, and “cover”, knowing full well how bad it went after Romero and Micky were ruled out in his first season. Yeah, look, mate, we’ll play a kid out of position and a final play another kid and put him out of position. And thing that they were probably Spurs’ best players on the day. It’s despite Ange, not due. Because no one has progressed under him. All his regulars have regressed – no Kulusevski isn’t better now than he was in the first few months after he arrived at the club, yes he’s better than he was last season but that’s no bar to be shouting about.
But he beat City and United, twice. Well, 5 other teams have beaten City and 6 others have beaten United. It’s a result that holds no cachet this season. But you’re devaluing his trophies in Scotchland. Yeah mate. Brendan Rodgers has won 10 trophies north of the border. He got Leicester relegated. In Europe Rodgers has more Champions league wins this season that Ange managed in total, hell the number is almost that of Ange’s complete European record with Celtic.
You can’t blame Ange, it’s Levy. Well, yeah it is Levy. But Ange agreed to be Levy’s patsy. Ange agreed to go into this season having bought just kids. Ange agreed to the keeper situation. Ange agreed to the lack of central defensive cover. Ange agreed to loan Werner again.
Ange also has his team play so that the opposition know the latest way to beat ’em. From not bothering to coach any defending at corners and set pieces around the box to the new way. Yup, the cross-field ball. Every opposition manager knows that if you bung in that arching ball to the opposite side then on the off chance that the Spurs fullback is there – and not way way up the park – he’ll be on his lonesome having to cover the opposition winger and fullback. Yeah, you can say Porro was bad but it’s on Ange. As was Forster’s latest blunders with the ball at his feet.
Levy doesn’t coach ’em but then it never looks like Ange does either. Liverpool looked coached.
As soon as Liverpool went two up, even with Maddison getting one back just before the break, you didn’t see Liverpool coughing up this victory the way Spurs would. Well, you certainly did when they got their two goal lead back just before the break.
Some were even thinking a comeback was on when it went to 5-2 and then 5-3 but Spurs were so open, not due to the players but Ange’s style of play, that 6-3 was more the likely outcome. Which is how it ended, as Ange brought on Werner.
And the Liverpool coach is Arne Slot, the man Levy could have had if he’d offered more money. But no, Levy went cheap and we have Ange, entertainingly losing instead of entertainingly winning. No he probably wouldn’t have been top of the league with this squad but he wouldn’t have been 11th with more losses than wins.
Two games left in ’24, first up against Forest, who under former Spurs’ boss Nuno are sitting fourth and then Wolves, who certainly picked up after sacking their manager who did not bad at the start of last season. A record that reads in 2024 they’ve so far played 35, won 15, lost 15, drawn 5.