Excellent result and performance today. A real team performance and huge credit to the team after the disappointment of last weekend to win away against a good side.
Here are my ratings for today's game -
Hugo - 7.5 Would have given him an 8 but his kicking again was poor at times. Made two outstanding saves. Great to hear him vocally leading the back line.
Walker - 7.5 Struggled early on when Southampton started well but had a very good game. A delightful assist for Deli Alli. Looks like Kyle is back to his best.
Alderweireld - 7 Another rock solid performance by Tobes. A real warrior in our back line and he can play a bit too.
Vertonghen - 7 Went about his business quietly and efficiently against a good front pairing of Pelle and Mane. Coolness personified.
Davies - 7 A typical 7 out of 10 player and no change here. Tackled well and put in some nice crosses. You always know what your going to get with the Welshman.
Dier - 7 Protected his back four superbly again. Kept it simple and covered at cb or at fullback when needed. What a revelation he has been,
Dembele - 7 How we missed him against Newcastle. Showed his experience in midfield, so hard to knock off the ball.
Lamela - 7.5 One of the hardest workers in the prem. Never gives his opponent a second on the ball. Some nice skills and touches.
Alli - 8 One assist and a goal and another action packed display by our new wonderkid. He covers every blade of grass and interchanges so well.
Eriksen - 7 A better performance by the Dane today. Worked hard, some nice touches and some quality balls into the box.
Kane - 8 Just edges Alli for mom in my opinion. What a brilliantly taken goal, strength, skill pace to get away and a cool finish. Worked so hard up front.
Carroll - 6 .5 Bought on to replace Eriksen at number 10. Did well and nearly scored.
Chadli and Son. On the pitch too late to make an impression.
Player ratings v Southampton
posted on 19/12/15
I watched the whole game, and a good solid performance without being outstanding. Lloris made a couple of blinding saves, and the team worked harder today than against Newcastle last week. Good comeback after last week`s mare.
posted on 19/12/15
Sandy, I know Norwich got an excellent result today but you would think 3 points is on the cards in our next game at home to them. Tough away game against watford after but if we can get 6 more points before the new year then brilliant.
posted on 19/12/15
Morning guys! Just logged not get the result & delighted to see when put last weeks result behind us.
Remember seeing in a post during the week that Dele needs resting, from some of your comments today he was obviously one of our best players today.
He is young and should be able to cope comfortably with playing every week.
Also pleased that both Erik & Christian played well, Erik is starting to show why we paid a record fee for him, although we all know he is not as good as Andros, is he??
As for Mr Eriksen, he has had a few quiet periods so far this season, but we all know he is a quality player and when he is on song he is top class.
Now all we need to do is stay in 4th place minimum for rest of season. No sign of Leicester dropping away is there???
posted on 19/12/15
Logged on!!! Bloody predictive text!
posted on 19/12/15
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I would like to think Spurs would take six points from Norwich and Watford, and then that would make up for the Newcastle disaster, but we all know Spurs don`t work to that sort of script. However we have to live in hope. Spurs usually do pretty well over the Xmas period so here`s hoping.
posted on 19/12/15
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posted on 19/12/15
Nice description of the game, Arg. First game I missed live on internet tv this season (was in a police cell in northeast Thailand and just got home). Saw the result just now on bbc site then came straight here. Gonna wait for MOTD now. Really well worded and sounds like the lads put in a proppa shift.
posted on 20/12/15
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posted on 22/12/15
Chronic,
chicken will be along shortly to say that we won despite lamela, as teacher's pet cannot possibly ever have a positive contribution to the team.
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What Chicken will say is, Lamela was the worst player out there again and nowhere near deserves a 7.5/10.
Even the morning papers rated him as just 6/10. So yet again, my judgment matches the neutral sports journalist and optima stats.
Just saying..