Wouldnt read too much into what Poch says,he is usually quite guarded talking about injuries.I would think if it requires a specialist to diagnose its not an obvious bad injury,or at least that what I read into the club not stating a lengthy absence yet.If he is out a month thats only 3 league games,
I am trying to remain positive here!!
You can take it two ways, 1. Its bad but how bad, 2. Not as bad as first thought. In either case a detailed diagnosis is required. I didn't see it but if he walked off then hopefully not as bad as they're saying in the press.
yes he's very good, but then so is Dele, Toby and Victor as well as Danny and er Kyle and the Harry's and Jan, not forgetting Mousa of course and Hugo's 11 clean sheets and least goals conceded. Really it's only Dier that's been very, very, good all the rest have been brilliant. Except for Son who's shit. There's always one who's shit isn't there, why haven't we sold him???
I think Danny was excellent last year too,only bigoted welsh fans would suggest that he should have been infront of Rose this season.He (Rose) is a perfect wing-back,either a good defender who original was schooled as a winger or a winger who has become a bloody good defender.In answer I think Davies is a flat back 4 guy,though we havent seen nearly enough of him to know if he could adapt to it,but I think he is a defender at heart,and knows he doesnt have the pace to make up 10yds on someone unlike Rose.So he will always sit deeper and be more wary of getting caught upfield,even if that is the role.
I'll take this on @Don Diaz. Eriksen is shit as well
Well, shit. I had been reading three weeks, this sounds bad. Still confident that Davies can do a job there.
http://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/players/spurs-danny-rose-a-number-12640506
Tottenham Hotspur defender Danny Rose is still a 'number of weeks away' after the extent of his injury was revealed today.
The 26-year-old has damaged the medial collateral ligament in his left knee which means the player will be missing from action for some time yet.
A Spurs tweet read: "Danny continues to recover and rehabilitate, but remains a number of weeks away from full training."
Saw in todays training pics,walker-peters training with the 1st team (along with edwards and CCV) .Well maybe after the millwall game?that just means a couple of PL matches,thats my hope now.
Its a worry that the other left side CB Wimmer appears dead and buried now,he even got a run out against chelsea in the role covering danny`s suspension.I am not worried we are passing over Wimmer,more that we are down to just having Davies now and after that mis matching as best we can.
In the 2nd half on sunday we changed to 3 at the back for a period,next few games are going to be against teams parking up,7 out of next 9 games at home,which may help in roses absence?
Yeah nice run,my point was,its more cover dannys creativity than defending hopefully in this period,if son,eriksen,dele,dembele,kane cant open up stoke,millwall,saints then really not having rose isnt the problem.
If we can max points at home in the so called 'easier' games , then potential more difficult 3 against Arsenal, United and Burnley away may not be relevant. Whatever happens we have another great end to a season coming up and a good chance of a cup or two maybe. This is what football is all about. There's some fucking idiots in this world that call themselves fans, yet they don't seem to enjoy it, and moan all the time.....we all know where they hang out.
Oh I agree, that's why he's a backup, and we're definitely not as good without him on the pitch. But given the run of games we have over the next two months, I don't think he'll be out of his depth, especially, as @Dustin has said, with Jan playing more or less behind him.Unfortunately not as well as Danny. We have already missed Danny's pace and as good as Davies is, he lacks that part of our wing back game going forward.
Bad news.
We are on an amazing WHL run, the last time we didn't win at the Lane was in October last year when we drew against Leicester, since then we have won all 7 of our Premiership games and the 2 FA Cup games!* 9 wins on the bounce at the Lane! In the 12 PL games we have played at the Lane this season we have conceded just 5 goals and scored 26, and we are the only side in the PL unbeaten at home this season. A little bit of tinkering with the away results and the Wembley juju and we are sorted!
Only minimal tinkering required with the away form as well though. There's no shame in losing to Chelsea, United and Liverpool away and draws against Scum, City and Everton. The only real disappointments were Sunderland,Bournemouth and WBA (who were/are having a decent season) Bournemouth beat Liverpool and nearly beat Arsenal. We're right up there and it's only Chelsea's remarkable winning streak that has skewed the table. We are in fact doing relatively brilliantly under Poch, against some of the top managers in the world and clubs with far higher financial resource than us.