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Spurs 5-0 Newcastle: Disco Benny, & The Return of the VDV Conundrum

Casual lobotomy is one of my less typical weekend pursuits, but I’m willing to hazard that were one to pluck out the respective brains of BAE and Scott Parker, the two would be as dissimilar as medically possible. At one point in the second half yesterday I’m fairly sure Benny executed a scorpion kick, seemingly just to pass the time. Thus does he roll. Mercifully, the little patch of cerebral matter that enables a man to ping a football at a designated mark was fully functional yesterday, and I give BAE more credit than has generally been ushered his way for his finish. An open goal it may officially have been, but at that angle and pace, and with defenders scrambling back, it would have been dashed easy to have missed the target. Moreover, victory yesterday was achieved by that first half blitz – had we not taken those early chances a very good team might have given us a very tough game. Credit to Benny for taking his chance and starting the disco.Do pardon me while I plug a service from a Spurs-supporting chum – LessonHighway.com is a free tuition and learning website to bring together private tutors and students. Teachers can advertise their services for free on the site; students can browse the lessons offered and click on a link to send an automated email to the teacher

Credit too, humungous lashings of the stuff, to Adebayor, for playing like his life depended on it. Goodness knows what inspired the chap, but he tore around like a man possessed, barely recognisable from the lackadaisical figure who half-heartedly ambled around Anfield a week ago. One suspects it is not simply coincidence that Adebayor’s new-found frivolity occurred with Louis Saha elevated to the status of chief support act, the Togolese smile machine tripping over himself to interact at every opportunity with his new best chum. Thought-provoking stuff, given that the usual contribution of VDV occurs a good 15-20 yards deeper. Within a more traditional 4-4-2 (as opposed to the VDV-driven 4-4-1-1) Adebayor’s was arguably his best performance of the season. Moreover, few would suggest that VDV would have eaten up the yards to score our second (Saha’s first) – ‘twas the goal of an out-and-out striker. Whisper it, but the VDV conundrum may be edging back into view. Commons sense dictates the Dutchman waltzes straight back in, but nevertheless it’s rather a cheery dilemma upon which ‘Arry can chew in the coming days.

While Ade and Saha set out to become best friends forever, and every man in lilywhite looked to get in on the act in that rampant first half, as ever I felt a tug of sympathy for poor old Jermain Defoe. He trotted on with half an hour to go, evidently straining at the leash to partake in the goalscoring fun and torment the Newcastle defence further, only to find that everybody else in lilywhite had had enough and was content to indulge in lengthy bouts of keep-ball around halfway.

Elsewhere On The Pitch

Top marks all round. Friedel had little to do, but did it splendidly nonetheless. Niko Kranjcar is unlikely to keep Lennon out of the team any longer than is necessary, but he still took time out from looking dreamy to top off a decent contribution with a rare goal. We were even afforded the luxury of giving letting Bale and Ledley have an early finish.

A minor gripe is that with more urgency in the second half we could definitely have made more chances and probably, therefore, have scored a few more – but it is the most incidental of observations. Royally thrashing one of the best teams in the country – and whilst still missing several key faces (Kaboul, Hudd, VDV, Lennon) – is a testament to just how blinking marvellous our lot have become. On nights like yesterday one wonders why ‘Arry (or indeed Modders, or Bale etc) would ever want to leave the Lane.

This particular run of fixtures remains imposing, but our heroes have done a sterling job so far. Grit last Monday, aplomb last night – l’Arse and United, one imagines, will be shifiting a little uneasily in their seats at the prospect of facing our lot in the coming weeks. Not for the first time gents, it’s bravo from AANP Towers.

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It was a wonderful performance, but the only reason we were able to get away with 4-4-2, was that Newcastle were so understrength in midfield. With Cabaye and Tiote in theit team, and a 4-5-1 it would have been far far more difficult, We took advantage of their inadequacy brilliantly, but let’s not kid ourselves that 4-4-2 will always bring such results, even against 4-5-1 and first choice players.

I’m slightly bemused by the general positivity regarding Krankie’s performance. I thought he gave the ball away far too often and looked every bit the slowest player on the pitch.

Ade was god-like.

I think playing VDV, however good he is, poses more difficulties as a team and formation for harry than you can imagine, although he likes to play all over the pitch and likes to come deep to have his touch, he tends to play out of position a lot of the time, which has got to be detrimental to the teams target, which is scoring goals or at least creating chances…. so when he’s back, side or back passing to scotty or ledley and an opportunity is made, where is he? probably running at a pretty slow pace to get into the area (sometines with massive applomb) but mostly without too much success. VDV didnt play yesterday and we seemed to employ a pretty much standard 442 (however crude it was) and created so many more chances. Playing Ade in his usual role has to be the key ingredient to any title challenge this season and his partner’s contribution will be absolutely vital. Playing two wingers, which we normally do, is also an important part of our play; wingers cross balls and also wing backs cross balls, and 2 strikers score goals. Surely we need to keep consistency and apply something of a 442 rather that a 4411. Although we have to be flexible in our approach to each and every team we play, I cannot see the great VDV being a part of our long term plan, unless a a super sub. His main issue is, is that he roams too much and tires himself without actually doing a lot, he scores the great goals out of nothing and we have to love that, but surely we need to pummel teams as we did to Newcastle. I have not seen anything like this from VDV. Furthermore, I dont hear too much talk about our poor corner conversion to goals record, when VDV is playing, he takes the corners, and after he’s has enough he hands the reigns over to modders, who cant seem to do more than a quick, short corner. How many corners do we get each game? we have to score more. Dont we need a great corner taker? like Baines or Giggs or Larrson, or maybe Bale can take that mantle, No? We must ask him the question.

We won’t make the mistake of taking on the top teams with 442 away from home? Perhaps we will, but if not Van Der Vaart comes into the reckoning surely.
Harry, Modric Berbatov Carrick at al are only here for a short while, the football that we can play is what keeps the fans forever.The memory of what once happened and might happen again
Tricky week with a tricky tie fizzled out with an acquittal, a summons for the England managership and a five goal thrashing of one of our alleged rivals.

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