NLD Reaction: Who to blame?
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke and James Maw are alongside Danny Kelly to carry out the post-mortem on Sunday's NLD defeat.
How much do we blame the players, the board and the manager for that performance? And have we already reached a critical point in the Nuno reign?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | The game plan didn't work. |
| 0:07.0 | It's not about blaming anything. |
| 0:10.0 | It's about realizing what we have to do. |
| 0:13.0 | We have to recover the players mentally, physically. |
| 0:16.0 | We have to improve them. |
| 0:18.0 | Me personally, we have to make better decisions. |
| 0:23.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm Danny Kelly. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm your host for The View from the Lane, the Athletics Tottenham-Hodzburg podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | Delighted to say that joining me on the show today are the athletics Jack Pittbrook and James Moore. |
| 0:34.1 | Let's go straight in on this, Jack. |
| 0:35.7 | You were there, you reported on it. |
| 0:37.4 | 3-1 defeat of the |
| 0:38.5 | Emirates. The scoreline does nothing to reflect the difference between the teams. Let me ask you a |
| 0:43.6 | simple question. How bad was it? I think it was the worst first half I've seen from any |
| 0:49.3 | Tottenham team since I've been covering the club, I think, which is... Wow. About 10 years. |
| 0:56.7 | It was... |
| 0:58.1 | What it reminded me most of is at the very end of the Pochitino era, or to a lesser |
| 1:03.7 | extent, the Marino era, where you could tell that the messages from the manager were not |
| 1:08.4 | getting through to the players. |
| 1:09.8 | The one game that reminded me of most was, you remember that awful 3-0 defeat at Brighton in October 2019. Absolutely. I think James and I were also discussing, you could kind of compare it to some of the last games of ABB as well. Just, you know, it wasn't just they lost. It was the fact that in the first half, they looked utterly lost. The players |
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