Attack isn't the key
From today's Times:
"The trick is going to be servicing the exceptional forward line."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2204270.ece
Completely inaccurate. Any Spurs fan knows that the problem wasn't scoring goals last season, it was conceding them. Post-Carrick, and with King in and mostly out of the team through injuries, the defence is far less solid.
Curiously the management at the club seem to have disregarded this and focussed their spending on offensive renforcements. What was really needed was either a central holding player with a better reading of the game than Jenas and Zokora OR a combative midfielder to play from the left but drift in to help those two avoid being overrun centrally. Tainio can do this, as he did to great effect in our decent run in last season, and Davids performed the role the season before. With Tainio seemingly capable of 20 games per season at best, a player of similar ilk to provide those qualities from the left should have been a priority. Of those players who have arrived, only Kevin Prince Boateng appears to have anything like the right profile, and it seems his qualities lie more in his offensive game.
How well Jol manages to adapt his midfield to provide better protection to the defence will, ultimately, determine whether 4th place is achievable this season, not how he man manages, or creates a supply line for, the strikers.
"The trick is going to be servicing the exceptional forward line."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2204270.ece
Completely inaccurate. Any Spurs fan knows that the problem wasn't scoring goals last season, it was conceding them. Post-Carrick, and with King in and mostly out of the team through injuries, the defence is far less solid.
Curiously the management at the club seem to have disregarded this and focussed their spending on offensive renforcements. What was really needed was either a central holding player with a better reading of the game than Jenas and Zokora OR a combative midfielder to play from the left but drift in to help those two avoid being overrun centrally. Tainio can do this, as he did to great effect in our decent run in last season, and Davids performed the role the season before. With Tainio seemingly capable of 20 games per season at best, a player of similar ilk to provide those qualities from the left should have been a priority. Of those players who have arrived, only Kevin Prince Boateng appears to have anything like the right profile, and it seems his qualities lie more in his offensive game.
How well Jol manages to adapt his midfield to provide better protection to the defence will, ultimately, determine whether 4th place is achievable this season, not how he man manages, or creates a supply line for, the strikers.
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