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‘It’s not good’: Tim Sherwood alarmed by what he saw Tottenham’s players doing in the warm-up vs Bournemouth
Tim Sherwood was covering the game between Bournemouth and Tottenham on Saturday and criticised the visitors’ warm up.
Sherwood told he was not impressed by the intensity of the preparations for the game at the Vitality Stadium.
Spurs went 2-0 down for the second Premier League game running, before launching an impressive fightback to win 3-2.
But Sherwood thinks that the warm up could have played a part in the slow start and said that is something Antonio Conte could look at.
Sherwood on Tottenham warm up against Bournemouth
He said: “I did their game at the weekend and I watched probably five minutes of their warm-up. I wasn’t happy with what I was looking at. You always look for excuses.
“I’m not saying this is ‘the’ reason but I was looking at the warm-up even before the start of the game and I was thinking ‘I’m not sure that’s sharp enough’. It was just slow and one-paced.
“They were all running round like Mo Farah. I want to see ‘quick, quick, slow’. A little bit of sharpness. Not tackles, not flying in, I don’t mean that. It was a keepball session.
“It looked slow, it looked like they were tired. You can tell sometimes, looking in the players’ eyes, the way they are working. I wasn’t there but I was watching it and I was interested.
“Someone was sitting next to me and I said ‘I don’t like this warm-up.’ It’s not good. I don’t like the sharpness in it. That is something Conte could look at.
“I don’t think Antonio is one of those who goes out and watches. Jurgen definitely does, Pep does.”
Tottenham have been starting games slowly and when something is a pattern like that, it makes sense to look at the reasons behind it.
Spurs have another huge game tonight when they face Marseille and if they start poorly in France, their Champions League hopes could be over before they have woken up.
They got away with it at Bournemouth, but not against Newcastle and were unable to get the win against Sporting last time out in Europe.