 Oh, welcome to toffy TV. It's the player ratings for Tottenham Hotspot 2 ever to nail a disappointing result tonight at the Tottenham Hotspot stadium. It's just one we have to just, it's one of those games, isn't it? We, we weren't very good and we're not, not a very, not a team that, I don't even know where we are at the moment if I'm just, but we are a team that defensively look a little bit better, but we are just not very good in the final third. And ultimately this game is about scoring goals and if you can't score goals, you're going to have issues and zero shots on target is just terrible as well. Even though we did have probably the best two chances in the entire game, which is mad as well. But if you can't hit the target, you can't score goals, you will not get points and that is going to be a fundamentally the issue until certainly January or certainly till Dominic Carmeloun ever gets fit. And that is a big problem. Other teams do have goal scorers. And even if they can see goals, they do have goal scorers. And that is, that is our fundamental issue right now. We have got to find a way to start scoring goals and we've got to be braver in games of football. Anyway, let's move on to the actual player ratings. Jordan Pickford for 97% of the game was absolutely fine. But unfortunately, a mistake has cost us the game. And that mistake was not holding onto the ball. The mistake is not giving away a penalty because as far as I'm concerned, he is not give away a penalty. The player is dived and the referee has been conned and the VAR haven't looked at it. The mistake was not holding onto the shot, which I think he should be doing all day long. I think he'd made a great save just before that from Harry Kane. And it was a fundamental error not to keep over that shot as far as I'm concerned. And he's allowed Harry Kane to con the referee and to give him a penalty. I've given him a five just because of that mistake. It's cost us the game ultimately. It's cost us the chance of getting something out of the game. So I've given him a five and I do stress that it was the mistake from the shot not giving a penalty away. I would say that was a reaction to what happened. I don't think it was very clever. I think he should have been screaming and shouting at the referee that it wasn't a penalty. Even if he thought it was a penalty, he should have been screaming and shouting for it a bit for him. So for me, he's been stupid there, but it was a poor mistake. It was a poor mistake for the goal. So I've given him a five. Sheamus Coleman. Tough knife for Sheamus, but I thought in the hole he did okay. Pace wise, he was up against it all night, but he stuck to his guns and most of the time he got a tackling or, you know, just won the ball, diverted out for a corner or whatever. I thought he'd done all right. You know, you can see age wise, you're starting to creak. You can see the difference in not having Nathan Patterson in the side. He's big. The recovery tackles. The pace gives you and Sheamus is just not quite on it. I'm going to also go forward. There's not much there at all, at all anymore. So give him a six though. I honestly thought he stuck to his task really well tonight. Michelin go on the other side. I don't think it was a, he had a great game tonight, certainly for the second goal. Far too easy letting Harry Kane get past them. He was playing more of a, more of a third centre back tonight at times as we had five, five in, in, in the back for a large amount, certainly when we were out of possession, which was a lot of the time. Yeah, as I said in my previous video, I think this is, I think Michelin go can be better. I think he can't, we can get a better left back than Michelin go. I think we need someone with a bit of pace and a bit of dynamism, but yeah. And I didn't think, I didn't think he played particularly well tonight. I've given him a five, but he is someone who's wholehearted. He is someone who gives everything. I just, I just think quality wise, we could do better. I think quality wise, going forward and defensively, we could do better. So disappointing night for him tonight. Connor Cody, solid game. Give him a seven. Solid game, defensive wise. You know, dealt with a lot of things in the air. I've given him a seven. James Tarkovsky gave him a seven half. I think he's, I think he's a little bit done a little bit better tonight, dealt with a lot, a lot more of that aerial threat. You know, Spades had won a lot of, scored a lot of goals off set pieces. And I think the pair have dealt with, dealt with them. I think James Tarkovsky just dealt with a lot more in the air tonight to give him a seven and a half. I think both of them were fine most of the time because I don't think they ever really got behind. There's too much. Everything was sort of, you know, all the balls they were trying to put into the box, we dealt with most of them. And if we didn't deal with them, we just leaned on the plate enough to just give us, you know, to just stop them getting clean headers and stuff. So defensively, those two were fine. A head of them, Ghana, just a Ghana guy. I don't think it was particularly good might for him. Got a booking early on. His passing was off again. Never really, never really made an impact on the game. Never really broke the game up and then helped us get forward. Yeah, difficult one for him tonight. Just didn't look on it at all. Maybe shown his age a little bit. Maybe, maybe shown his age a little bit in some of these games or picking up that stupid, picking up an early stupid yellow card and then having to play on it for the rest of the game. Yeah, it's been offered the last couple of games, hasn't he? Just the pass and it's been a little bit, it's been poor. Maybe it's funny because you're saying maybe he's better at passing because of the plays he's been playing at. Maybe he didn't have to get better because of the plays he's been playing with. Maybe, maybe the likes of the plays he's been playing with makes, made his passes look better than they were. I don't know, but certainly wasn't anywhere near it tonight. And certainly wasn't anywhere near it last week either. So I've given him a five. Oh no. Sometimes looked really good, certainly breaking with the ball and striding. I love to see him run with the ball because he makes so much grander quickly, but I think his decision making a time can let him down. There was certainly, there was certainly there was certainly one in the first half where he broke into the box and I think it went out, it ended up going off for a goal kick, but just poor decision making not quick enough to figure out what he needed to do. Obviously he had a fantastic chance at the end of the first half to give us the lead. Not hitting the target is absolutely criminal. I think at this, at the top level at the Premier League, if you get one on one with the goalkeeper, if you don't make that keeper, at least force him into a save, then that's appalling. And you know, we've seen that from, from Damari Gray. So in the whole, yeah, I think, you know, I think, I think he's still, I think he's still got levels to go to, obviously, you know, he's not, nowhere near the finished article. And he's only young man laying in the game. I've given him a six tonight. So there's plenty to come from him. Alex Oboby did again, he was okay, not nothing amazing about him tonight. Always bright, slight, you know, is the midfield, didn't really have too many options. When he got on the ball, I thought he was bright, but there was, there was very little to aim at, very, you know, very few opportunities to see him in an attacking sense tonight. Because you've done better with their second goal, maybe, maybe because they've done a lot better just to let them step in. And obviously did the deflections, took her over the goalkeeper. I've given him a six and a half. Dwight McNeill had to play more as a wingback tonight. And yeah, defensively, that would probably suit him because he is someone who works really hard when it comes to defending. But again, worked really hard, but he's not, didn't offer us anything. Did okay. But when the game went to one nil and we sort of had to throw that out the window, you're looking for more and he doesn't, he didn't, didn't offer anymore. So yeah, I've given, I've given him a six at all. I thought it was work right when it was Neil Neil was, he done really, really well as a wingback, but nothing in the attacking sense. The Marley Gray, someone who was, did have the license to attack tonight, obviously very isolated. Had a huge chance to give us the lead. And again, as I said about all now, and I think it's absolutely criminal that a Premier League player can Premier League player can knock at the target from there. I think, I think that was poor, really, really poor. And in possession, I thought he was really, really poor. Just why, you've got the pace, you've got the ability to stride forward with it. Take people on with your pace, not by dribbling, gives the ball life far too easy in, in, in areas of the pitch where he should not for me. I've given him a five. And now Mopai, if you haven't been subbed off, I don't, I don't know if I'd known he was playing. Being poor, Mopai for me. Being very poor, very poor tonight. I thought he was very poor last week. I thought he was poor against Southampton. I just don't think he fits as a lone, as a lone striker. And that's basically what he is. He's a lone striker because of the way we play. We have to play slightly different. We have to get those. Let's be honest, we're just far too negative as a football team. We're far too negative. I know what Frank Lampard's trying to do at times, but we're far too negative. And I also don't understand the way we play at times. I think last week we didn't really attack, but we didn't really defend. Like tonight, we've, we've put every man behind the ball, but it was just a limited sort of way of playing until they scored, till we changed it. It's, we have to get a balance. And I understand Frank Lampard's hands are really tied by the plays he's got forward. They're, they're, they're just poor, they're poor players. Damari Gray is not very good. Anthony Gordon is a very young man who's got a lot to learn. Dwight MacNeill, I don't think he's a very, a very good player in terms of he's going to open a game or change your play, play the way we play. I think he's a decent defensive winger, whatever that is. And we've got Dom to come back. And I don't, I don't know, I don't know where Dom is. So going forward, we've got, we could honestly buy four attackers. That's how desperate we are for wingers and the strikers. I've given Malpire four because he just wasn't in the game. He just wasn't in the game. And I don't think playing up front, up front on his own suits him because I think he's someone who likes to drop off a striker and be a split striker and get the ball and tane and rumble people. He's not a, he's not a lone striker. He's never going to be a lone striker ever in his life. So, and, and ultimately, you know, you never really see anyone, you know, you never see Malpire's had, I think one chance in the last three games and he took it really against, against West Ham. I do feel slightly sorry for him because he's not in the game. You can't get him in the game because height wise, he's never going to work. I think he got booked in the first half for literally being smaller than Eric Dyer. You're never going to get him in the game enough as a lone striker because of the way, the way he plays. And the sooner we get and then Malpire's an option to play maybe as a split striker and have another man in the field or whatever, the stack, that can't come quick enough. But, but genuinely we could, we could bring in four, we could bring in two new strikers and two new wingers because we had desperate that end of the pitch. And like I said before, if you're not scoring goals, you're not picking up points. You know what I mean? You ain't, you ain't getting many nil nils in this, in this league. You ain't getting too many of them. So if you ain't scoring goals, you ain't get, you ain't getting points. So we've got to find that balance and I think this is the most difficult thing for Frank Lampard. He's got to find that transition. We were ultra defensive last season to try and grind our points and it worked. We started the season playing that till he got plays in. Now we've got the plays in. It's like, how do you go forward? Because look at the, look at like who we've played tonight. We are miles away from Spares, miles away. You know, and it's fine. Yeah, we had a couple of chances, but just look at the way we played. We were never in control of the game at all. It was always, you know, Spares controlled the game tonight and Spares aren't the most attacking team in the world either. So we've got to bring players in. That's, that's going to open a few things up for us or just change some change as we go forward. Maybe James Guy and I start to get more opportunities. I think Nathan Patterson is a huge mystery, a huge mystery with the, with the pace factor at the back of the recovery pace and also getting up and down the pitch creating, creating space for the wing getter and the forward. So yeah, tough. The, the, the subs, Dominic Carvalhoon didn't do anything. He was on for 25 minutes and he really, really didn't do anything. Oh, I mean, I just, I honestly, I don't know what he did. A couple of times the ball went in the air and you know, he's done, he's done a leap, but he hasn't done anything of any note. I'm just trying to see if I can find how many times he touched the ball. He touched the ball five times. He didn't have a shot. No one had the shot. He had five, yeah. Five touches and two passes and two of them were accurate. He hasn't done anything, guys. He, so you can have, you know, I haven't got one mobile, but Dominic Carvalhoon hasn't done anything. Yeah. He hasn't done anything. So difficult to get the ball to him. I appreciate that, but if you are going to bring Dom on, you've got to have the, you've got to have an option of how you're going to get the ball onto him. Listen, you can say all you want. He only played 25 minutes. You have four passes, you made four passes and five touches. I mean, he was on for 25 minutes. That's enough time. That's enough time to have more than four passes. But again, that comes down to the way, the way we play and the way of not being able to get the ball forward. So I've give Dom a four as well. James Garner, he played 23 minutes and he had 14 touches and he got nine out of nine passes, 900% pass accuracy on the time he was on the pitch. So there you go. That's a little bit better, isn't it? That's a little bit better. I've give Garner a six and a half. So that's telling me that the boy doesn't lose the ball too often. So that's not bad at all from James Garner. That's food for thought going forward and midfielder who can actually keep the ball and pass the ball. So that's not bad at all. Yeah. So I've given him six and a half and Rondon who had approximately two touches. I mean, you're seeing the issue with the centre forwards here, aren't you? You're seeing the issue that they've got. I'm not calling these people out here big time, do you know what I mean? Mopai had 15 passes touches and he actually had nine out of 11 accurate passes. So that's not the worst thing in the world, is it? He only won one ground, you'll have a three. But the amount of touches, those three plays, I've had between them as abysmal and that's obviously consistent with the way we play. And that's abysmal. Rondon, I've given him a four. That's really consistent. They're not getting the ball. The three strikers we got on the pitch are not getting the ball at all. And that is a massive issue. A massive issue. Demari grade 37 touches and he got 19 out of 20 passes. That's not bad. But they're not getting the ball. They're not getting the ball into them. The way we play is not allowing the forwards to get into the game at all. So that has to improve going forward. That has to improve going forward. So yeah, we have to have a style of play that we stick to. Come hello, Highwater, that is going to improve the team, grow the team and get us some points because it's only, listen, it's only early days and I appreciate that. I do appreciate that, but stick to a way of playing and get them into it. So there you go. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Make sure you check out my Insomat Jax and make sure you check out Bazza's videos as well. Thanks for watching. We'll be doing the final word life on Monday over on Toffee TV Premier. Join us for that if you aren't on Toffee TV Premier. The link is in the description. It'll be on the screen in a moment. See you later.