• zxnoregretzxzx@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      It hasn’t ruined your entire season. Spurs are still in a great position now to push for a CL place which would’ve been well above expectations at the start of the season. Even with your great start a serious title challenge was more fantasy than Lord of the Rings.

      • airz23s_coffee@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Most peoples concerns are the push for a CL place.

        Lost VDV til potentially January so backlines dodgy. Lost our creative engine for ???. And that’s during a really tough run of games.

        Then in January we lose Sarr/Biss who’ve been running the midfield for AFCON, and Son for the Asian cup.

        Could be a really derailing run of results from here til February.

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          I think you’ll be alright for AFCON. Bentancur is back, Hojbjerg is hardly a slouch (and not too dissimilar to Gallagher, who Postecoglou wanted). January is a relatively nice time to lose them too, with not many PL games, no EFL cup semi, and a potentially easy FA Cup draw.

          There’s also a good chance that most of your other players will be back then. Even just getting Romero back after a few games will put you back into a good position. With no Europe or EFL Cup I don’t think you’ll be in too bad a position for December.

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        1 year ago

        Just imagining Saruman watching Spurs-Chelsea on the Palantir has me cracking up

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        1 year ago

        They’ve got the top 3 scoring teams in their next 5 games with a weakened backline, that sort of thing can knock confidence quite a bit.

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      1 year ago

      I mean look at us last year, some random 10 mins bullshit euro game decimated any hope we had at a title shot

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      1 year ago

      Happened to united last season too. Marrinez, varane and garnacho all out when firing so hot coming into the biggest games. Spuds

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      1 year ago

      It do be like that. But tbh idk if this will completely ruin your season. Might be derailed for a bit but there’s still 75% of the season to go.

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        1 year ago

        With the amount of games happening between now and the new year + then players leaving for afcon and asian games, that’s a big chunk of the season we’ll be missing vital players, while having fuck all depth

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      1 year ago

      Feel like Spurs fans knew the threat was looming because I seen a lot of “if x happens, we’re fucked”. Unfortunately x happened twice in the one match with VDV and Maddison. If anything happens to Son, prepare the eulogy.

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      1 year ago

      I mean you have played 0 mins since the match. at least let there be something to concrete (results-wise) base this on.

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      1 year ago

      Ah you’re at the ‘we got injury’s our seasons over’ stage of Ange ball. Don’t worry he’ll sign some fucking ballers in January.

    • gryffindor918@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      The curse. Happened with us with Tomiyasu and Saliba vs Sporting. 12 minutes to ruin our title dreams