{"id":774501,"date":"2026-09-18T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774501\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:06:12","slug":"why-spurs-are-struggling-to-score-goals-and-what-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774501\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Spurs are struggling to score goals and what next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When an attacking side accelerate play, it is common for the defending team to drop back in an urgent manner, looking to protect their goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When this happens, space opens up in front of the defence, for late-arriving midfielders or clever strikers that drop back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Again, Marmoush has tried to do this on a number of occasions but has not always been found. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This may be a matter of players requiring time to gel. For Savio, it may also be a wide player struggling to pull the ball back on their weak foot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Left-footed right-winger Savio is better at getting to the byeline but the left-footed Udogie and Robertson have created clearer chances via crosses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Marseille, both right winger and right full-back were comfortable cutting the ball back on their right foot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These crosses were maximised by the excellent box-movement of 37-year-old Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When an attacking side accelerate play, it is common for the defending team to drop back in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}