REACTION: Liverpool Defeat & Kane Injury
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke, James Maw and tactics expert Michael Cox reflect on Spurs' 3-1 defeat to Liverpool.
They pick out the positive individual performances from the first half, and debate how the team should line-up in Harry Kane's absence.
They discuss the selection of Doherty at left-back, Mourinho's criticisms of his defence, and the incident in the dressing room at half-time.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:18.2 | Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:22.6 | My name is Jack Pitbrook. I'm joined today by James Moore and special guest Michael Cox. |
| 0:27.2 | You may know him as a zonal marking. |
| 0:29.5 | We're here to talk about Tottenham's defeat to Liverpool last night in the Premier League. |
| 0:34.1 | James looked pretty bad, to be honest on TV. |
| 0:36.9 | I didn't enjoy watching Spurs. The first half |
| 0:39.6 | was okay. The second half was terrible. How are you feeling? Yeah. Not especially great, |
| 0:46.4 | to be honest. What was that? What was that Sven Gore and Erickson, Maxim? First half, good, |
| 0:50.6 | second half, not so good. I mean, it was kind of like a sort of water down version of that really, wasn't it? The first half, sort half not so good I mean it was kind of yeah like a sort of |
| 0:54.5 | water down version of that really wasn't it |
| 0:55.9 | first half sort of just about |
| 0:58.1 | buying second half |
| 0:59.1 | I mean just an absolute binfire |
| 1:02.5 | it was it was a terrible performance |
| 1:05.2 | I don't think there's much |
| 1:06.4 | you could really take from that second half |
| 1:07.7 | I mean if it was like quite good timing |
| 1:10.2 | to have Michael on, |
| 1:10.9 | actually, because I was utterly bewildered by the tactics in that game. You know, we've talked |
| 1:17.6 | a length over the last couple of months about Marino's system for facing the top sides, you know, |
| 1:25.0 | the idea that he has what is effectively a back six when Sousaico and |
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