Opening Day Defeat - The Reaction
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
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🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 1:08.2 | My name is Jack Pitbrook. I'm joined again today by James Morton Charlie Ackleshare. |
| 1:11.8 | The 2020-21 season is underway and what decided it was yesterday as Spurs lost |
| 1:16.2 | 1-0 at home to Everton. |
| 1:17.9 | Charlie, you were there. |
| 1:18.9 | How bad was it? |
| 1:20.4 | Pretty bad, yeah. |
| 1:24.1 | You know, I mean, you all watched it and I think it was the you know the lack of attacking ideas |
| 1:30.6 | and urgency once they went one-nill down that was most concerning um you know the first half was |
| 1:36.4 | okay i mean it was pretty even everton maybe shaded it but spurs had some decent chances |
| 1:41.4 | and then yeah they just seemed really flat and |
| 1:44.1 | ran out of ideas in the second half. And I always think as well, the opening day defeats are so |
| 1:49.3 | kind of additionally crushing because you look forward to them for such a long time. And even |
| 1:54.1 | in spite of yourself, no matter if you're a natural pessimist, you do get excited. So it was |
| 2:00.0 | deflating, for sure. And yeah, that lack of attacking |
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