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If you forget Conte's terrorism

I've been trying but I think my brain needs bleach

I hate to say it, but so far I think Spurs have had the best transfer window. Maddison alone was an absurd bit of business, but they've just improved everywhere.

Yes. We were very fortunate that Palace avoided 4 yellow cards in the first half and didn't have an obvious handball goal disallowed. Good point.

You've been getting deflected goals all season you stupid cunt

Own goal isn't luck. Maddison put in a good ball in the box that was too fast for the defender to react properly. Richarison was ready behind the defender for the tap in.

Stepping up every single match

Almost shed a tear when I saw him sprinting down the right wing in the 90th minute

Tottenham have a fucking midfield

Looked confident, hard to say much more than that.

What did he say?

You won't challenge. Half of your fans are saying a title challenge should not be the expectation. Gary is annoying sometimes but he's right about that. It's 10 games in.

I know it’s pretty much impossible, but it would be hilarious if we could go one match thread without someone commenting this same comment after Kane left

It would be even more hilarious if bayern don't win the league. If that actually happens I'd retire if i were kane. Maybe get into golf like bale did

Same. If Liverpool can’t win the league then love seeing spurs win it because it’s interesting.

The Haaland/VDV battle is gonna be genuinely fascinating

Was thinking how on earth are palace trying to counter when none of their attackers can outrun Van de Ven.

I expect to be downvoted to hell

Upvotes for you, I’ll never meet your expectations

Spurs look average

They are and everyone will agree soon enough

Is there a link to the VAR? I was watching the game live and the replay was not clear at all to me, but I wouldn't mind examining it again.

I thought Palace played well, and especially in the first half began to get worried that AngeBall had been worked out. The width of the 3 midfielders made it hard to go through or round with areas squeezed out. We def missed Udogie's involvement and no shade on Ben but we looked better with Royal there.

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People are not talking about him so maybe it's just me but I thought that Will Hughes was fkn immense in that game. He may look like a bargain bin Santa but he really ran the Palace midfield and was so good in driving the team forward. I think with Bissouma having to be careful not to get a yellow and miss the Chelsea game it really gave Hughes the licence to be physical.

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I'm pretty pissed off with Ayew's tackling, especially in the first half. I'm all for physical games as I think it makes the sport better, but he was far too often just going in on the back of player's legs. It was cynical and pathetic and the ref should have booked him earlier after it happened the 3rd time.

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Disagree on the VAR tho. The angle of the ball when it comes off his chest (no arm at this point) is going diagonally to the right (from the goalside cam). When it gets to where his wrist is then it sharply changes direction to be going down and to the left. It also has a lot more spin on it. No idea how VAR didn't catch that quickly (btw clear and obvious in only for when VAR wants to intervene on a mistake / miss by the ref, not for checking things like this).