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Spurs Odyssey Reviews the Premier League Season
for 2016-2017 - Matchday 15
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Reasons for pessimism?
Last week's Premier League review was entitled "Reason for more optimism?". This week's edition is the antidote to that emotion. So, why be pessimistic at this time?
1. After our start to the season which consisted of 12 Premier League matches unbeaten, we have now lost two of our last three such games. Our overall form in the last 10 games has not been good either, with five defeats and just three wins
2. Those two Premier League defeats have been to fellow competitors for a place in the coveted top four.
3. League leaders Chelsea are now a full 10 points ahead of Spurs, and whilst Mauricio Pochettino remains optimistic that they can have a bad run, and that we can catch up, I fear such a recovery is not on the cards.
4. There were too many sub-par individual performances at Old Trafford with three of our attacking players scoring less than five out of ten in the survey, in which over 150 votes were cast. These were Son (which is not such a surprise), but to see Dele Alli and Harry Kane score less than 5 is nothing short of distressing.
5. When your goalkeeper is voted your best player, that usually means the outfield players did not perform adequately. One major encouraging piece of news is that Hugo shares his man of the match vote with substitute Moussa Sissoko, who had his best performance since starting in our 2-0 win over Manchester City in October.
I hope for more optimism after this week's home games against Hull and Burnley!
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Premier League results 10-11.12.16
Watford 3-2 Everton
Arsenal 3-1 Stoke
Burnley 3-2 B'mouth
Hull 3-3 C. Palace
Swansea 3-0 S'derland
Leicester 4-2 Man City
Chelsea 1-0 West Brom
Man Utd 1-0 Spurs
S'hampton 1-0 M'brough
Liverpool 2-2 West Ham
Premier League Table
P W D L F-A GD Pts
1. Chelsea 15 12 1 2 33-11 22 37
2. Arsenal 15 10 4 1 36-15 21 34
3. Liverpool 15 9 4 2 37-20 17 31
4. Man City 15 9 3 3 32-19 13 30
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5. Spurs 15 7 6 2 24-11 13 27
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6. Man Utd 15 6 6 3 20-16 4 24
7. Watford 15 6 3 6 21-26 -5 21
8. West Brom 15 5 5 5 20-18 2 20
9. Everton 15 5 5 5 19-19 0 20
10. S'hampton 15 5 5 5 14-15 -1 20
11. Stoke 15 5 4 6 17-22 -5 19
12. B'mouth 15 5 3 7 21-25 -4 18
13. Burnley 15 5 2 8 15-25 -10 17
14. Leicester 15 4 4 7 21-26 -5 16
15. C. Palace 15 4 3 8 27-29 -2 15
16. M'brough 15 3 6 6 13-16 -3 15
17. West Ham 15 3 4 8 17-31 -14 13
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18. Swansea 15 3 3 9 19-31 -12 12
19. Hull 15 3 3 9 14-32 -18 12
20. S'derland 15 3 2 10 14-27 -13 11
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