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Kyle Naughton har fødselsdag i dag og det udnytter folk på Tottenhams facebookside til at svine ham til. Stakkels fyr omend det er "fortjent" efter hans lorte præstationer i denne sæson.

Dårlig stil må man sige. Det her er trods alt en holdsport.
Hele holdet er elendige for tiden, med ret få lyspunkter.

Savner at se Paulinho få chancen igen.
Paulinho i form er den bedste midtbanespiller vi har og den eneste rigtige boks til boks spiller. Savner de gode dybteløb han laver, der bringer holdet i overtal ved omstillinger.

Walker er en anden spiller vi virkelig mangler, men der går nok en lille måned før han er kampklar.

Glæder mig til Yedlin det er vildt.. Enig i Paulinho, han er jo nærmest helt glemt - hvad sker der Poch? På grund af et langt VM? Come on det må være en and.

Interessant gif, der viser Soldados stats og udvikling de seneste par år.

http://cartilagefreecapt…im-nooooooo

Jeg er desuden ikke den eneste, der tror og håber på, at Soldado ikke er blevet ødelagt.

I posted a comment in the Hoddle a few weeks ago in relation to the above .gif
And this is the perfect place to restate it. I disagree with the suggestion that
There’s no rational explanation for this. It’s almost unfathomable that a striker with the ability and statistics of Roberto Soldado at Valencia could come to England and be the complete opposite of what he has been for the majority of his career. But that’s exactly what happened. Roberto Soldado came to Spurs, and Spurs broke him.
Soldado has not been broken, just horribly misused. He is still extremely capable, and it’s baffling how no one sat the club understands what his skill set is and how valuable it could be if used consistently correctly. Here’s my original comment:

What you’ll see is that he consistently did a few things extremely well while other skills have never been in his toolbox.

At Getafe and then Valencia, he consistently returned a high amount of goals at a high conversion rate. If you look into where he scored from, he was getting into prime scoring positions and his teammates were getting him the ball. At Getafe it took a greater number of shots, while at Valencia he became even more clinical. I think you can attribute that to their wily Mids, and you need look no further than a guy like Juan Mata. Just look up some of their interchange at Valencia and it’ll give an idea of how to unlock Soldado.

Take last night’s game as an example: at least 3 of Townsend’s speculative (and ultimately wasteful) shots came just as Soldado peeled off the last defender, creating a lane for a faked-shot-turned-pass. If the pass comes he’s in alone, and if the shot hits the target he may sniff out a rebound. Sadly we know Townsend decides to shoot about 2 paces before he actually does and almost never deviates, and he misses the net A LOT, so Soldado’s movement is wasted. With the attackers he gets to play with (and I’m primarily saying Townsend), that pass never comes. In contrast, watching the Newcastle match on Sunday showed me countless examples of Eriksen and Lamela looking to play a ball into Ade’s feet only to see him vacate the space to look for a rebound on a 25-yarder. Collocini stepped up, intercepted the ball, and the attack fizzled every time. This has long told me that Ade thinks and plays a more direct style (which can be and often is very effective) but it’s a style that is best suited to complementary players – wingers like Townsend and Lennon. Remember, he’s been most effective in between Lennon-Bale under Harry and Towsend-Lennon last year (granted there was a bit of a carousel).

It’s interesting to note that (if you recall) Soldado played his early Spurs games with 2 wingers: Lennon and Townsend. Eriksen and Lamela were not getting playing time early last year, because of AVB and/or injury. Check out Soldado’s radar from last year at Spurs: He obviously lost his ability to score but his passing was his best ever, in every category except for throughballs (his worst output of all the years displayed). His teammates simply did not understand how to get him the ball and get into dangerous positions, meaning he was left to make more passes to players who weren’t making runs. Still, he managed to up his key passes, showing how great his vision truly is. His passing % also rose, but I think that’s a result of not having opportunities to make those incisive passes (such as throughballs), so he was sometimes stuck giving the ball back to the guys who gave it to him in some wonderfully boring AVB ball.

Soldado needs players with touch and guile to unlock his talents, because you’ll note he lacks direct abilities in the radars- The ability to dribble past guys is simply not there and never was. Lamela’s opener yesterday showed how he can be effective as a provider with players of a similar style, as did his performance v. City 2 weeks ago. Once that happens, defenders focus on the mids and lose track of Soldado. If Soldado is going to be effective, those runs need to occur after he gets the ball. If they do and our players are open, he’ll find them. If those runs are tracked, it means defender are leaving Soldado to track the danger men (like Lamela) and creating space for him to get it back. Once he finds the ball in those spots regularly, he’ll start putting them away.

tl;dr – Ade playing with Lennon and Townsend for directness, Soldado with Eriksen and Lamela for touch and guile, with Kane and Chadli being capable of both and being interchangeable and useful with both trios. This gives us attacking 5s of Ade-Lennon-Andros-Kane-Chadli and Soldado-Erisen-Lamela-Chadli-Kane, of which you pick 4 to play in a given game. It leaves room for rotation wrt to form and injury, and I believe it will make every one of Ade, Lennon, Andros, Eriksen, Lamela, and Soldado (!) better.

by Polkaroo on Oct 30, 2014 | 9:01 AM

Jeg synes, at han har nogle gode pointer, og jeg håber at Poch lader Lamela, Eriksen og Soldado få nogle kampe sammen, inden Soldado bliver smidt på lossepladsen, da de tre bestemt har færdighederne til at få noget ud af småspillet.

Delen omkring Townsend er desuden pinligt rigtig. Townsend har de tekniske og fysiske færdigheder til at komplementere Lamela, Eriksen og Soldado perfekt, da han er pågående, driblestærk, hurtig, tør udfordre sin direkte modstander og tager direkte løb, både med og uden bold, som kan mix things up, og trække modstanderen ud af position, og skabe plads for andre. Desværre er Townsend ikke udstyret med en hjerne, så vi får nærmest aldrig glæde af hans mange kvaliteter.

I sidste ende håber jeg, at Poch finder ud af, hvordan han får offensiven til at fungere, for udover på målmandsposten, så er det det eneste sted, hvor vi har lidt kvalitet. Jeg har efterhånden opgivet vores defensiv, så vi må gå efter, at score mange mål, for modstanderen kommer helt sikkert til at score mod os.

Utroligt hvor meget doommongering der er gået i supporterne; vi rykker ned og "Bring back Hoddle" som de mest grelle eksempler.

CPH-Hotspur:

Soldado afslutter stadig af helvedes til og har gjort det ganske konsekvent for Spurs. Desuden har han vel være prøvet i samtlige forskellige opstillinger/konstellationer man kan forestille sig uden at jeg synes han har bidraget med noget særligt i opspillet.

Det ligner, at han ikke har niveauet til at være en god angriber for en subtop klub i PL.

ardilles:

Det er helt idiotisk. Giv Poch noget tid og skaf for helvede nogen bedre forsvarsspillere end de idioter der render rundt for tiden.

Det værste er øfferierne, hvor taberen TS nævnes i diverse sammenhænge. Føj!

Jeg går stadig med et eller andet naivt håb om, at Soldado lige pludselig finder melodien, og knalder 10-15 mål ind i resten af sæsonen. Jeg har sympati for ham, måske fordi han er ret "Spurs"; han var engang ret god, men selvom han virkelig vil, så kan han bare ikke lige nu.

Walker tilbage på træningbanen, håber han bliver klar til Chelsea kampen..

så kom den gode nyhed kyle walker er klar til kamp på torsdag