FA Premier League

Tottenham Hotspur 1:0 Manchester United

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Kick-off
Sun, 16 February 2025 @ 4:30pm GMT
Status

Finished

Discussion Your Lineup Prediction

  • How the feck can you watch that game and blame the manager?

    Did Amorim palm the ball right into the path of Maddison unmarked at the back post? Did he also waste golden chance, after golden chance?

    The players are fecking bang average, with a captain who is one of the main culprits in conceding possession so easily, how on earth are we supposed to put up a fight with players like we have?!
    Think it was more not making any subs. Some of those players were stinking the place out, we were losing anyway, so might as well let them show what they can do. Did leaving them all on win us the game, not even a draw.
     
    There is a lot to lose.
    Like losing to spurs today? Every time casemiro plays, I cringe because I know he is going to have the ball knicked from him in a dangerous area, not once, not twice, but as many times as he will allow it.
     
    Tactical masterclass with that sub in the 91st minute.

    I fecking detest this club sometimes.


    What's to like ?

    The owners - Glazers - Never
    The co-owners / management team - Ineos - Nope
    The players ? - Not the majority of this bunch
    The manager - I want to but it's hard right now,

    Just leaves the fans, name and history, we will be back one day, but no sign of it being soon
     
    This is an unusual weekend as Utd, the 2 clubs within 3 points and just above us and the 3 clubs within 3 points just below us, all play each other.

    WHU v Brentford
    Palace v Everton
    Spurs v Utd

    Depending on how the results of these 3 games go, we could end up in anywhere from 11th to 16th place.
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    So we ended up in 15th place after these fixtures.
    Only West Ham below us, before the big gap to the bottom 4 teams.
    Thank feck we have a 10 point cushion above Wolves !


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    He really hasn't. What has he created ?

    Way to ponderous on the ball and when he gets a free header it looks more like a clearance.

    He set up that chance for Garnacho and played some really smart passes. Was he brilliant? No. But in my opinion, he was our best player—though that’s not saying much, considering how poor the rest of the team was. Still, he was the brightest spark in an otherwise lacklustre performance.
     
    Well that was disappointing. Even with our threadbare squad I thought Spurs were there for the taking. Garnacho had 2 or 3 glorious chances to score.

    Shame Amorim didn’t feel confident enough to play any youngsters.

    On the positive side I thought Zirkzee looked great today. Apart form the header he missed I loved some of his touches. If and when our team is a fully functioning unit, he’ll look a player.
     
    Are we just a curse?

    Every player that leaves us flourishes or at least looks better.

    Moyes is now mint again doing great jobs at West Ham and Everton.

    The two brightest management prospects in world football both come and look ruined.

    feck me. We don’t exist without Sir Alex Ferguson.
     
    We were just more shit than a rubbish Spurs side.
    Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Fulham would have torn Spurs apart.

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    I'm sick of Amorim and the excuses people keep making for him
    He’s under pressure, the key question is if we give him what he wants, will he improve the team immeasurably, with 5 or 6 specialist players?

    I’m not sure, he’s so stubborn and set in his way and methods, that his own inflexibility in his own system to get points and find a way to win is showing up massively, yes he was right to put a boot up Rashford’s rear end but that decision will backfire, should have kept him and then sold him in the summer? (The statement about his goalkeeper was naive at best!)

    We have very little penetration and goal threat, he also is regularly making United Fan’s miserable most weekends.

    He needs to maybe be giving the dreaded vote of confidence even though the club is so skint they can’t sack him until next season.
     
    Think that's the most depressing thing. That's the worst spurs team I've watched in about a decade. That's how awful united are right now. Even then we deserved at least a draw IMO
     
    Think that's the most depressing thing. That's the worst spurs team I've watched in about a decade. That's how awful united are right now. Even then we deserved at least a draw IMO
    We were outplayed at home by Southampton for 75 minutes, which is one of the worst PL sides in the last 30 years. So today's display is no surprise.
     
    He’s a better PL manager than Ruben Amorim who is a rookie coach at this level.
    No Amorim’s a decent coach with a definitive style of play, who currently only has a handful of capable players in the squad who able to adapt to that system.
     
    The only positive note was probably Zirkzees work rate and that our defensive line was reasonably efficient and able to cope well under prolonged spells of pressure.
     
    No Amorim’s a decent coach with a definitive style of play, who currently only has a handful of capable players in the squad who able to adapt to that system.
    Moyes is a far more experienced PL manager that’s managed teams in Europe at semi final, CL 1/4 final and won a European trophy with a worse squad than we had when Amorim took over.

    He let 2 attackers go out and none come in, Moyes would not have allowed that and Antony with another MOM performance tonight, yes Rashford and Antony were not good enough but make sure you have replacements before weakening the squad, that’s a rookie mistake?
     
    I’m predicting another ten years of pain and misery to come. If the plan is to clear the debt and sacrifice winning trophies then we need to sell up to someone capable of doing both. To remain one of the biggest clubs in the world we can’t stay on the same trajectory of bad decisions and poor performances.

    I get Amorim doesn’t have faith in the youth players and maybe doesn’t rate them, even still throw a couple of them on and give them 15/20 mins to change his mind. Casemiro was poor, Zirkzee was almost begging to come off near the end he was wrecked after putting so much into the game. Giving Chido 3 mins at the end of the game was pointless.
     
    That was a game between the 14th and 15th place teams. Take away the names and the history and you got exactly what would be expected of the 14th and 15th place teams.
     
    In fairness, who are we missing? Rashford, would not be playing anyway, Antony meh! and Malacia Amas is easily as good as him, I take the point I would want to see a larger squad but in the long term trimming the fat is what we need, not padding it with players who are not good enough
    Antony much maligned as was McTominay. They leave and all of a sudden, not as shite
     
Post-match discussion

Player Ratings

Provisional results
4.6 Total Average Rating

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Compiled from 200 ratings.

Score Predictions

53,102,22
  • Man Utd win
  • Tottenham win
  • Draw

Detailed Results

  • 16% Tottenham 1:2 Man Utd
  • 13% Tottenham 2:0 Man Utd
  • 12% Tottenham 3:0 Man Utd
  • 11% Tottenham 2:1 Man Utd
  • 10% Tottenham 3:1 Man Utd
  • 6% Tottenham 2:2 Man Utd
  • 5% Tottenham 1:1 Man Utd
  • 4% Tottenham 0:1 Man Utd
  • 4% Tottenham 4:0 Man Utd
  • 3% Tottenham 1:3 Man Utd
  • 3% Tottenham 4:1 Man Utd
  • 3% Tottenham 0:2 Man Utd
  • 2% Tottenham 2:3 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 5:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 3:2 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 0:9 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 4:2 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 0:0 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 5:1 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 3:3 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 7:1 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 3:6 Man Utd
  • 1% Tottenham 1:0 Man Utd
Compiled from 177 predictions.
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Match Stats

  1. Tottenham
  2. Man Utd
Overall possession
56.5% 43.5%
Shots
22 16
Shots on target
7 6
Total touches in the box
45 32
Goalkeeper saves
6 6
Fouls
13 9
Corners
10 5

Referee

Peter Bankes