“There's a quadruple on here!" | Spurs 2-2 Manchester City | The Sunday Kickback | OFF THE BALL
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Hi, Keith. We've just seen Manchester City and Tottenham draw 2-0. City 2-0 up at half-time. They have six points behind Arsenal, but I think there's only one place to start. Dominic Solanke's, we'll say, second goal.
Yeah, well, his second goal was unbelievable. I've been looking at the XG return from a chance like that, 0.04, so very, very rare will you hit the back of the net from a position like that. The cross into him is behind him, and you're thinking, as a striker, you're probably thinking, do you know what, I let that run past me, there might be somebody coming in the opposite end that can tap it in, but he just dangles a right leg at it, it hits his heel, and straight into the top corner and Donnarumma is a big big boy another two inches on Donnarumma he probably saves that it's the only position that that could go into the back of the net and it's a wonderful wonderful finish from Dominic Schelanke very very reminiscent of the Olivier Giroud scorpion kick but yeah
Second half, it's absolute Jackal and Hyde. The first half had no bite, no enthusiasm, no running around. It was all tactics, tactics, tactics, play into the middle, try and beat the press. Just play over the press and especially when you go in there and you get the ball nicked once or twice as Manchester City was doing, stop doing it. If the press is good, play away from the press, play over the press and if it gets a little bit slacker then start going in. Honestly, I think Spurs fans, I understand why they're so annoyed. Because in the Champions League, they finished fourth. Absolutely brilliant. Win a load of games against some really good opposition. But then in the Premier League, it just looks like they're all over the place.
Absolutely all over the place. But if you're a Spurs fan looking at that second 45 minutes, you're thinking, well, we have the levels. We have the... capability to get there it's just can we stay up there and again Thomas Frank doesn't need to try and reinvent the wheel and you know tactics tactics tactics motivate them players get them running around from a City point of view once Ryan Cherky left the pitch they really seemed to lack any sort of inventiveness in the middle Ream just come on had a header that possibly could have done a little bit better with Erling Haaland you know not really at the races had a chance that he could have lobbed Vicario he hit the roof with a net other than that I thought City were pretty one-dimensional
Yeah, in terms of Spurs, obviously, they start without Van de Ven. He was one of the calls before the game, whether he'd be fit or not.
What were the key moments in the Spurs vs. Manchester City match?
Danzo was out as well. Romero goes off at half-time. So they go into the second half. When we saw Papsar coming out for the second half and we saw that it was Romero he replaced, then you have Pallinia and Dragosin, his first start of the season in the Premier League. He's only back from a crucial injury. I don't think anyone thought we were going to watch Spurs come out in the second half and do what they did, but can they build on it? We talked about it in the commentary, their next game is away to United, they've got the North London derby coming up soon as well.
Emph! Can they build on it? They're going to have to.
How did Dominic Solanke's goal impact the game?
When you look at the run of fixtures they have, where they are in the Premier League right now, they've got to start winning games. I know people are saying it's copy and paste from last season for Spurs, really good in Europe, but all over the place in the Premier League. I take that on board, but if you're finishing fourth in the Champions League league phase, you've got something about you.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:49
2
What were the key moments in the Spurs vs. Manchester City match?
2:49–3:23
3
How did Dominic Solanke's goal impact the game?
3:23–6:19
4
What tactical changes occurred in the second half of the match?
6:19–7:43
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Why are Spurs fans frustrated with their team's performance?
7:43–10:32
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