Thread for all pre-season friendlies

Hatch99

ESPN will be showing all our overseas pre-season friendlies live on their UK and Ireland channel.

Fans will be able to track the side's progress during our pre-season tour of the United States where we take in games against club partners San Jose Earthquakes on July 17 as well as New York Red Bulls and Sporting Lisbon in the Barclays New York Challenge on July 22 and 25, respectively.

Our fixture against San Jose is also available to ESPN viewers in the US.

In addition, ESPN will broadcast our pre-season encounter with Benfica in Lisbon on August 3. This fixture is again only available to viewers in UK and Ireland.

As part of ESPN's early season line up of Barclay's Premier League fixtures you can also catch our game against Man United live and exclusive from Old Trafford on Saturday, September 30 at 5.30pm.

everdead.ie

Starts today against Bournemouth and we have the San Jose earthquakes next week and it's on Espn. Think I'll be stuck watching the tracker on the website to see how things are going kick off at 3pm.

everdead.ie

Cudicini;
Hutton, Calum Butcher, Steven Caulker, Bale;
Bentley, Parrett, Bostock, Ryan Mason;
Keane, Obika.


Also in squad...Kaboul, Livermore, Rose, Jenas, Pavlyuchenko, Townsend, Alnwick, Modric, Naughton, Taarabt, Adam Smith, Oscar Jansson.

everdead.ie

Bently injured Townsend on

everdead.ie

Goal 1 nil spurs - obika

everdead.ie

Alnwick;
Naughton, Kaboul, Livermore, Rose;
Smith, Jenas, Modric, Townsend;
Taarabt; Pavlyuchenko.

everdead.ie

2-0 spurs - Pav
3-0 Spurs - rose(at LB)
4-0 - pav

tippspur

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QAQ6mtNgQs

Kold

tippspur wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QAQ6mtNgQs

That's not the kit we've seen. Is that just a training top?

KingdomYid

Kold wrote: »

That's not the kit we've seen. Is that just a training top?

Yupp just a training top, new kit not launched yet

SuprSi

Classy finish by Roman at the end.

Hatch99

Bit late for the Bournemouth one I know...

Playing San Jose tonight at 9pm our time..it's on ESPN so gonna have a few bottles watching it.

Hatch99

Here is the starting line-up against San Jose - Cudicini; Hutton, Kaboul, Walker, Bale; Naughton, Jenas, Huddlestone, Townsend; Obika, Keane. Subs - Jansson, Button, Butcher, Smith, Mason, Kranjcar, Modric, Pavlyuchenko.

everdead.ie

Watching a film so can't watch have it recording though

everdead.ie

Big guns in for second half

everdead.ie

I really hope walker and Townsend have breakthroughs this season

therecklessone

Sh1t game not helped by two complete d1ckheads doing the commentary.

It's Playstation time.

P_1

Has anybody got a link for this one?

everdead.ie

therecklessone wrote: »

Sh1t game not helped by two complete d1ckheads doing the commentary.

It's Playstation time.

Have to say they got the magic spray magic sponge thing spot on :PAC:

kakee

didn't see it myself. Was it any good.

Hatch99

kakee wrote: »

didn't see it myself. Was it any good.

Was like watching paint dry.

bobby boots

The guys a stud.

Hatch99

bobby boots wrote: »

The guys a stud.

?

bobby boots

That's the jive talk that the american commentators were using. I was equally confused.

mickman

therecklessone wrote: »

Sh1t game not helped by two complete d1ckheads doing the commentary.

It's Playstation time.

xbox 360 with fifa 10 on line is the way to go ! endless fun

jonp

Watched most of the game on the net. Typical early pre-season stuff, although San Jose were quite sharp at times. Things to report:

Bale - was buzzing although I went into a bit of a panic when he went down injured.
Townsend – looked the best of the young lads
Jenas – actually looked OK.
Keane – was all over the place and not in a good way. Can’t see it happening for him at Tottenham again.

Very early days so difficult to draw too many conclusions. Next one against Terry Henry and co should be more interesting.

Hatch99

Won 2-1, good to see some of the young lads getting a run, match report below from website.

Robbie Keane and Gareth Bale scored the goals that got us off to a winning start in the Barclays New York Challenge against New York Red Bulls.

The team had to overcome a deficit following an opener from Thierry Henry but came back strongly in the second half on a warm evening at the Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.


The boys were quick out of the blocks with Bale making a surge in the opening minute at the beginning of a move that concluded with Tom Huddlestone working home goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul. Keane was, moments later, picked out by Bale inside the area but his effort deflected wide.

The debut-making Henry came close to opening his account for Red Bulls on seven minutes when he weaved his way through and was confronted by Carlo Cudicini - the Italian making a great stop to his left.

The Red Bulls should have taken the lead five minutes later when Macoumba Kandji's low cross fell to Seth Stammier unmarked in front of goal, the player somehow ending up kicking the ball away from Cudicini's goal.

Huddlestone's free-kick was deflected wide before a magnificent run and cross from Bale was not capitalised on in the area.

Henry did have his moment on 25 minutes when he was in position to cleverly steer home a low cross from Joel Lindpere, a goal against the run of play.

Keane nearly levelled, a header from another teasing cross from Bale being cleared off the line. Just before half-time the striker worked a route through and was denied at the last by a Stammier tackle.

Andros Townsend and Adel Taarabt were introduced after the break in place of Vedran Corluka and Kyle Naughton. Bale moved to left back from left midfield, with Huddlestone dropping back into central defence.

Niko Kranjcar tested replacement keeper Greg Sutton with a downward volley from a Townsend cross before Stammler crashed his shot narrowly wide at the other end.

Taarabt teed up Keane on the run, but the captain was denied by Sutton, before an Alan Hutton cross was scooped away from the line. Respite was only temporary.

On 62 minutes a Townsend corner was misjudged by the goalkeeper and allowed to reach Keane at the far post, who managed to steer home from close range.

Danny Rose got his chance in front of a crowd of 20,312 in the 69th minute, taking the place of Kranjcar.

The lead was snatched on 71 minutes when a long-range pass from Huddlestone in the general direction of Bale was not headed with any conviction back to goalkeeper Sutton. Bale stole in and capitalised on the uncertainty, beating the keeper to the ball and finding the net.

Ryan Mason took over from Modric with 15 minutes remaining, but the next alert was caused by Huddlestone failing to connect cleanly with a header back to Cudicini. Conor Chinn was quick to seize on the possibilities and it took an excellent block by Cudicini to prevent and equaliser.

Chinn hit the bar with a powerful header and Cudicini saved the follow up from Sinisa Ubiparipovic.

Victory was secured without further threat to the lead and now it's Sporting Lisbon at the same venue on Sunday.

Spurs: Cudicini; Hutton, Walker, Corluka (Taarabt, 46), Naughton (Townsend, 46); Kranjcar (Rose, 70), Jenas, Huddlestone, Bale; Modric (Mason, 76); Keane.

Hatch99

Decent link on iraq goals for tonights game, spaniards knocking it around nicely so far.

Hatch99

Great goal Rossi, well deserved.

Hatch99

2 down at ht, and getting the run around, no harm i suppose.

everdead.ie

Completly different team in the second half is what they're saying on our website Harry must of been seriously pist :pac:
Button,
Walker, Bassong, Assou-Ekotto, Bale, Giovani and Crouch for Gomes, Hutton, Dawson, Naughton, Lennon, Defoe and Keane.

Hatch99

talking to myself here - great finish gio, 2 1

Pacing Mule

Hatch99 wrote: »

talking to myself here - great finish gio, 2 1

I'm listening

Hatch99

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

I'm listening

wicked deflection, 3-1

everdead.ie

Dos Santos has been excellent

Hatch99

everdead.ie wrote: »

Dos Santos has been excellent

So has walker

everdead.ie

Is Modric injured?

Rossi to spurs rumours start tomorrow morning!!

Hatch99

everdead.ie wrote: »

Is Modric injured?

Yeah he picked up a knock last week i think, not sure how serious it is.

everdead.ie

1-4 poor show Villareal deserve it though

Hatch99

1-4, hope its a while before we see a scoreline like this at the lane again :eek:

tippspur

Thanks for the updates Lads, not good though

2nd Row Donkey

How good was Dos santos???

Is there any evidence from pre-season that we might actually see something decent from him this year.

He had a good WC.

Hatch99

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

How good was Dos santos???

Is there any evidence from pre-season that we might actually see something decent from him this year.

He had a good WC.

Last night was his first appearence in pre-season as he only returned from summer break last week. I think he needs to impress fairly sharpish, if not, dont be suprised if he is sold or loaned out before the deadline.

ziedth

With his WC and what harry thinks of his attitude I'd be amazed if he didn't go to a third rate premier club come deadline day.

tipperaryjim

Hi Lads,

Just wondering if anyone knows if tonights game with Benfica is on TV? Hopefully we can put in a better showing than our performance against Villareal :eek:

Mullo76

tipperaryjim wrote: »

Hi Lads,

Just wondering if anyone knows if tonights game with Benfica is on TV? Hopefully we can put in a better showing than our performance against Villareal :eek:

Jim

its on spurs tv online. If you have an international membership you get free subs for the year to it, if not you can get a one month sub for 1.99 to watch the match ( if you dont want to keep it just make sure to cancel it afterwards as it will bill you 3.99 per month automatically). not sure if its on anywhere else.

cheers

ruiseal

Mullo76 wrote: »

Jim

its on spurs tv online. If you have an international membership you get free subs for the year to it, if not you can get a one month sub for 1.99 to watch the match ( if you dont want to keep it just make sure to cancel it afterwards as it will bill you 3.99 per month automatically). not sure if its on anywhere else.

cheers

...also live on ESPN....

Hatch99

Looking forward to seeing walker again, Iv been impressed with him so far in pre-season, here's hoping he's ready to make the step up.

everdead.ie

Does Gio look a bit Heavy? Looked good anyway but just wondering.

SuprSi

Looking much sharper tonight, much sharper. Bale is really fast! Not as quick off the line as Lennon but once he's moving he's a flyer.

SuprSi

Lennon's decision making has been pretty poor so far, and Crouch's touch not great. Good breaks being made though, and some lovely skill by Modric and Gio.