Today's Football 2018-19 Season

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Yid4life said:
I'll take that.
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Alas I do think Spurs will come up significantly short. Dortmund displayed no attacking intent last night aside from a few moves in the first half, and rightfully got spanked after Spurs realised they could smash a few past the basically sitting ducks.

I'm not sure how you'd fare against a genuine attacking team such as PSG (winners this year imo) or Juve. I am going for Spurs to get an unlucky draw in the QF stage and bow out.

From the eight I expect to go through, I think you'd only quite easily be able to dispatch Roma, As for the rest - Juve, City, Liverpool, Real, PSG, Barca (not playing their C team next time) - bit too much of a stretch for me, bar a lot of luck over the two legs.
 
Big Fat Sam said:
Alas I do think Spurs will come up significantly short. Dortmund displayed no attacking intent last night aside from a few moves in the first half, and rightfully got spanked after Spurs realised they could smash a few past the basically sitting ducks.

I'm not sure how you'd fare against a genuine attacking team such as PSG (winners this year imo) or Juve. I am going for Spurs to get an unlucky draw in the QF stage and bow out.

From the eight I expect to go through, I think you'd only quite easily be able to dispatch Roma, As for the rest - Juve, City, Liverpool, Real, PSG, Barca (not playing their C team next time) - bit too much of a stretch for me, bar a lot of luck over the two legs.
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Agree with most of that but we don't really fear RM.
 
Amazing how in the face of Spurs brilliant second half, Dortmund slid from competitive to just plain overwhelmed. And Jan Vertonghen, who was picked at left wing-back in part to subdue the returning Jason Sancho had a riotous night, providing a perfect cross for Son’s goal and then scoring himself.

Spurs, after half-time were like a team inspired and in no mood to welcome Sancho back to the capital.

Brilliant tactically from Poch and not bad when only the third best team in the prem proves just too much for the leaders of the Bundesliga.
 
I know some were criticising him for going out of the cups and not prioritising them, not me.

Foreign managers can often look at the major trophies, the champions league and league title as really worth pursuing even if it means protecting players in lesser competitions and more especially when injuries have taken such a toll already. This is usually the culture abroad where the domestic trophies are seen as competitions to give squad players a chance anyway. Klopp is possibly the same.

Priorities are different depending on clubs but for all the nonsense from some pundits about Pochettino needing to win something, a league cup or FA cup won't materially stop the jibes, it might change them but it won't stop them.

It would just transform it into 'You've only won an FA (or League) Cup' (with the inference being you've never won anything major)

Managers who win FA cups gets dismissed at top clubs if their league form isn't up to scratch or someone better may come.

Pochettino's reputation stands or falls by how far he can take Spurs in the major competitions not whether he can do a Swansea, Birmingham City, Wigan, Portsmouth etc and win a lesser trophy
 
Chris O'Connor said:
Priorities are different depending on clubs but for all the nonsense from some pundits about Pochettino needing to win something, a league cup or FA cup won't materially stop the jibes, it might change them but it won't stop them.

It would just transform it into 'You've only won an FA (or League) Cup' (with the inference being you've never won anything major)
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Nail on head.

No one apart from the fans (including me) really gives a toss about the domestic cups.
 
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