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I would even suggest we give him an extension. It never stopped any manager from being sacked (if he performed badly) It's just hard to imagine him carrying on without an extension, a dead man walking. Strangely enough, he became more animated on the touchline, and the team played better, the louder the speculation about him being replaced. So, I would not be surprised if he put his feet up and lit the cigar once given an extension.

That's the question. Some of our supporters have argued that returning to our glory days will take several seasons and managers. Pochettino should be given the chance to prove them wrong, perhaps.

I suspect many of us would not accept that it's not a simple binary choice of good v bad when judging a manager. Somewhere in the spectrum of good managers is a Mauricio Pochettino line. The question is how far away from the bad end and how thick that line is. Is he good enough to coach Chelsea,? - Yes, most probably. If he the manager to take us back to our PL and European glory days? - I don't think so. Should he be given more time? - One more season to prove the doubters wrong. Moreover, If he goes now, he'll become that great manager that would have won us a dozen PL and CL trophies. It's fair to say we're stuck with Pochettino for at least one more season, for better or for worse.

I like his abilities on the ball. The only negative is that when we were down to 10, he could have put more pressure on the opponent when the ball returned to them

That was a brilliant away performance. We clearly learned from the Forest game. I don't half mind Europa League next season if we can make it.

I was really excited about his prospects at the start of the season. Maybe he's trying too hard and too early to be everything. He should focus on his defending especially as we are sipping in too many far post goals

Defending set pieces is not always about having the best defenders. Drogba was good at tracking his man and heading away corners, but he played under managers who knew what the players must do in those situations, instructed them and saw that they carried it out. We can blame Nicolas Jackson for allowing Boli a free run at the ball, but our defending issues are more systemic. The blame is squarely at Pochettino's feet, I'm afraid.

I can see how some aspects of our attacking being improved by signing a No 9 of quality. Our lack of organisation in defence however cannot be corrected by new signings. And if Pochettino hasn't figured out all season how to fix it, I doubt he will fix it next season.

The team is improving for sure. We also need the manager to improve. Another manager might have sent the team flying off the block this afternoon considering we had so much time to prepare and rest, and considering what's at stake. We're still clueless about how to defend our far post. The manager must improve If these parts of our game is to get better next season.

Isn't that the problem, that some people expect a winger to run at players regardless of the situation? CHO is a top all round player who reads the game; knows when to run at players, when to pass, and when to shoot. His "upgrade" Madueke spent all afternoon trying to run at players and losing the ball each time. He looked half the player of CHO in second gear. I know that on a good day, Madueke is a top winger. This afternoon showed what happens when you try too hard to run at the FB unnecessarily when your opponents sit back and your team is not transitioning fast. The harder you try the worse it gets.

Exactly. You'd think we played 48 hrs ago.

From a quality player.

Another great performance. Whatever people think of Noni's abilities, he is a player who makes the right decisions with the ball, and in this situation, it was a pass to Jackson. I put my hands up about giving up on Pochettino before the last three games. But at least I had followed him for many years. I find it harder after a few games to give up on a young player I hardly know, a player who had been scouted not only by Chelsea. I always refused to believe that Madueke, Badiashile, Gusto, or even Cucurella were as bad as some people were making of them. Badiashile's timing of interception was brilliant all afternoon.

I would just be happy to see us successfully deal with different kinds of team - top teams, relegation strugglers, mid+table scrappers, etc. That is what good coaching is all about - you want a fight, we're up for it, you want to pass, let's go If ECL is where we emd up, so be it. We can look to something better next season .

Congratulations to Pochettino and the team for a good performance and a well-deserved win. The owners can't stop the speculation, and they didn't start it in the first place. The football public is entitled to judge the performance of any player or manager. Our next match is against West Ham. It will present an entirely different kind of challenge to the manager and the team. They will sit deep and try to hit us on the counter, and they will do that for 90+ minutes. Pochettino has done okay against big and big(ish) teams. The WHam match is the kind he can use to silence the speculations. If we fumble, then the win against Spurs would not have changed many people's perceptions of Pochettino.