When have Spurs lost from winning positions this season?
Posted Apr 23, 2018, 1:07 PM UTC
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What's his supposed to prove? So just in important games? Games that could have led us to our first trophy in God knows how long any more.
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Honestly, we've improved in terms of getting points when we need them but just haven't figured out how to hold on in knock out style matches. Maybe they'll have learned their lesson after this year.
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Where does it mention coming back from an 0-2 deficit at Juventus?
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"Nothing weird about it. Poor game management." Spot on, unfortunately.
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Yeah look at both Juventus and Man Utd against us. As soon as they took the lead they were time wasting, faking injuries and trying to win free kicks which they took ages to take while when we're in the lead we play as if we're still desperate for a goal.
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Tbf, you can't waste time for 80 minutes against or 30 minutes Juventus. Going for a second goal was not a bad decision.
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You say that but if that was Utd taking the lead so early they'd have immediately dropped deeper and only tried to get a second goal on the counter even from so early on in the match. Then they'd start wasting time from the 60th minute onwards and see the game out 1-0. It's the safest way of playing in a semi final and Mourinho has made an art form out of it. Personally I'd hate playing that way though as I love seeing us attack but it works for teams like them and Juventus most weeks.
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They tried that on 0-0 and got blown out by Sevilla. The problem against Juve wasn't going for a second goal, we created ample chances to score it and a 3rd the problem was poor finishing. It has been awful at times and the Arsenal game was some of the worst i've seen though everyone forgets because we won. That was legitamately our turn to run up a 5 or 6 nil match on them with the chances we had and in the end the only reason we didn't drop points was because Lacazette was as pathetic in front of goal at the end as we were all game.
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No doubt it’s a mentality issue.
But we need to remember how far our mentality has improved with Pochettino being there - consistency was the goal and we have achieved that to a large extent under him. All that’s left is for us to break the final mental barrier of winning a competition.
I just hope Levy is equipping Poch with whatever’s required to do that. Retaining our best players and spending where required.
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I asked my good friend who's a sport psychologist and has watched many of these games with me: "Is there any way this isn't a mental issue?" She said:
"I'd say its 100% mental. Seems like they are comfortable in PL and when they get the lead their confidence carries them through. Looks like when they lead in knockout competitions, they actually get more nervous or tense and probably feel too much pressure to maintain rather than confidence... take that with a grain of salt as I assess them from thousands of miles away having never met anyone on the team."
"Sports psychologist thinks it's a mental issue."
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Urologist here. They all have UTIs
Cheer Geoff
But on Saturday we maintained our good play right up until Utd scored, it was only then that we started to look rattled. It was Utds goal that changed the game, not us taking the lead.
They scored due to a mistake by Dembélé, which could be because he was nervous.
It could be, but I doubt it was nerves. He got caught in possession because he tried to do something in a dangerous area. If anything, it was over confidence that put him in a bad position.
That and he might have gotten hurt earlier in the match. I remember him passing for a breakaway and straight away started limping while running up the pitch.
Didn't seem to have much bother away against Dortmund... twice more in cups we didn't lose from behind
Yeah it's not that it's happening all the time, just with much more frequency than in the league.
However, that wasn't a knockout game
Rochdale and Newport were
The fact that we had to replay both of them doesn’t exactly scream mental toughness
I think the whole "multiple leagues above them" fact may have helped from a mentality perspective.