tomaldinho1
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This is what I think - given Mou's squad and the Alli ban I think most people could have predicted close to their starting line up and how they would play. Sit deep, try to get Son/Berwijn into space/feeding of flick ons from long balls & wait for us to make mistakes.Jose didn't take the point as much as Ole gave the two points away. He waited far too long to bring on Pogba and really should have started him. You can forgive Ole for starting James, but not waiting as long as he did to bring him off for Greenwood, who's already miles and miles superior to James and works very well in tight spaces against parked buses.
Jose should send Ole a bottle of wine as thanks.
Our problem was Ole went defensive - McT, Fred, Bruno is great against a team like City who come at you and you need that high press, combative centre to the team but against the snore fest Mourinho likes to play it's rendered almost redundant. You have to take the risk and play Pogba/Bruno or, if Pogba could only play one half, have Mata in there and trust someone like Matic to shield the back four. Spurs under Mourinho simply aren't a good team but it took them to score for us to actually try to take some risks and then they're fired up defending a one goal lead.