Get rid of Levy & ENIC.

Then you might be given a capable squad of players able to handle all eventualities.

Better defenders.

It's not a matter of grinding out results, it's a matter of being at it from the off. Spurs were ambling about for the first 30 minutes. Zero intensity. No way is a team going to keep coming back from being behind, and so it proved on Sunday.

Not sure who is instructing the players to amble about in 1st half of home games, but somebody needs to start upping the intensity from the start of games.

Good defenders, good midfielders and a good manager.

When the better sides arent at it theyre still usually the best team on the pitch still. Certainly in regards to possession, shots shots on targetxg touches in oppo box etc. Yet watching it feels like theyre outfought to everything or whatever. You get to a level where the bars just higher i guess.

We don't

Stop buying weak players for a start. I still can't get over what I watched on Sunday. Has there ever been a player that has summed up Spurs over the years more than Brennan Johnson?

Never saw the Ipswich game but unusual for an Ange team not trying to blow the opposition away in the first 30. He hates lack of intensity. Johnson still young and wingers usually the most inconsistent players.

Don’t agree with you having weak players but you seem to have inconsistency in their application of it and maybe related why some of Ange’s teams have run out of that intensity - they struggle to keep it up. Injuries too. Which brings me to depth of squad - to me seems the biggest issue so outside of any rotation starters don’t feel so much pressure of losing their place. Just my 2p

The system more or less relies on us playing well to win. If we don’t we usually lose. We draw very few games.

Can’t see that changing until we get much better players and much better leaders.

"2. Leadership at the back. Romero has been a bit of a mess this season. He is an experienced world cup winner who would walk into most teams. But he isnt stepping up, not even leading by example really. His inconsistency seems to typify the team. Even this week, he steps out to confront the ball player. Fine. He tracks the runner from midfield. Fine. Then he stops, lets the runner go beyond him and cannot affect the cross which leads to the goal. Coupled with mistakes vs Leicester, Newcastle, Arsenal, BHA, these have all cost us goals."

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If your observations are in fact correct, ......then obviously we should kick the bugga out of the team.

I saw nothing you are talking about on the game tape.
At what time in the match did your observation happen?
Tell me that and I can replay the tape and tell you what actually did happen.

Good article OP.

The crossing situation is one I've noticed a lot. The full backs are very poor at stopping them. A lot of this I feel can be attributed to them having to run the full length of the pitch to get back. You make bad decisions when you are tired, anyone who plays football knows this.

Porro, as much as I like him, can't fault his workrate and we've had much worse but he his he used to be a no.10 and it shows. If he is in a one v one situation the attacker normally manages to get the ball into he box.

Against Ipswich our right side was a real target, porro was often left 2 v 1,Johnson gets back but doesn't actually commit to defending. The amount of easy overlaps they had was laughable really. I was at the game it was all the more evident sitting in the stands.

To compound the above the CBs we have just don't see to read the game well at all. When I think back to Toby and Jan, they were a proper partnership.. they would fight to get in front of defenders, they were often making first contact and read the game really well despite neither being that quick.

Our back four look like a bunch of individuals when defending and they get little help from the guys in front.

The Ipswich keeper coming to claim crosses also showed what we are missing with vicario. Vicario is almost perfect, good with feet, quick off line, great shot stopper but the crossing situation is a huge deal. We look like conceding with every set piece.