was due to certain assumptions that some players might be leaving and certain targets would be available to be fair that sounds reasonable enough but listen memes need to be made and we should never let reality get in the way of that words to live by over the season the lack of reinforcements proved to be a major thorn in their side injuries to harry kane son daily ally and others didn't help the lillywhites all that much although despite this spurs didn't do too badly a fourth place finish with lucas mora and fernando yorente stepping in to fill the goal scoring gaps was a huge help as a matter of fact spurs made it all the way to the champions league final in rather dramatic fashion might add they barely made it out the group stages and came from behind against both ix and manchester city in the knockout stages but to the relief of every arsenal fan spurs lost out to liverpool in the final so after a season where many expected spurs to crash and burn they didn't actually do too badly couple that with some promising signings and maybe poach and his men were ready to go again oh oh no uh he was sacked NUMBER_TOKEN games into the season after a poor start let's pause right there usually on this channel when speaking about teams i'd like to briefly go over the tactics deployed by a team during a landmark season in the club or team's history a season where the club performed valiantly and ultimately walked away with silverware but you know spurs haven't won anything significant since the fa cup in NUMBER_TOKEN and in my opinion at their peak spurs in the NUMBER_TOKENs have probably been better than any spurs side since they last won the league in the NUMBER_TOKENs that's just my opinion although i fully acknowledge that i didn't watch every spurs match over the last NUMBER_TOKEN years to verify that opinion but whatever so instead we're gonna look at the tactics deployed by spurs in the NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN season where they finished second with NUMBER_TOKEN points a season where i personally believe over the past decade or so they played their best football this is more or less how these guys set up the team played in a narrow SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN more often than not opting to play dynamic creative players in the wide positions and in the center this meant that they NUMBER_TOKEN went out and out wingers the team also lined up with a NUMBER_TOKEN-man defense fairly often a SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN or a SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN wasn't an unfamiliar setup for them this season the reason behind this was to keep the attack narrow but allow for width to be provided by the wing banks we'll get to that in a bit as pochettino's side grew larger and larger in stature and ball playing capabilities over the seasons something typical of bigger teams began to happen teams began to allow them to have more possession adopting more defensive approaches to matches with them this was evidenced by the NUMBER_TOKEN possession stat that they averaged throughout the season the ultimate show of respect this was also due to the organized team press that spurs implemented into their gameplay possession wasn't asked for it was demanded up top you already know harry kane was the focal point with NUMBER_TOKEN goals in NUMBER_TOKEN appearances his attacking presence was immense this year sat behind him were jungman's son dele alli and christian eriksen the three aforementioned dynamic creative players you can
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