Villa at WHL

Hatch99

JD maybe to get a start ?

Joe Jordan says Rafa van der Vaart 'has a chance' of facing Aston Villa on Monday.

The in-form forward suffered hamstring irritation in Holland's friendly against Switzerland on Friday.

Rafa was back in training at Spurs Lodge on Wednesday and speaking at a pre-Villa press conference this morning (Thursday, November 17), first team coach Joe was certainly hopeful that he would be available to face Villa.

"Rafa trained on Wednesday and from what the medical team are saying he's at 75 per cent," said Joe.

"That's good, but we have to get him from 75 per cent to 100 per cent, we'll have take it day to day and we do have a few days with the game on Monday.

"He's got a chance, but it is important that there is no recurrence of the injury.

"This morning is important as we'll get the players back out there again and we'll have players with varying degrees of fitness. Luka, for example, played two games for Croatia, other players played once. We'll get them out there again and monitor them.

"The other lads are progressing nicely. Vedran Corluka is okay, he played in the first game for Croatia and was suspended for the second game.

"We have no major doubts."

Niko Kranjcar (thigh), Danny Rose (ankle) plus longer-term Michael Dawson (Achilles) and Tom Huddlestone (ankle) remain out

Mr. Guappa

I'd go with Defoe if VDV is anything less than 100%. No point in risking aggravating his injury and possibly lose him for the Christmas period. Apart from that selection we will surely be unchanged from the Fulham game.

Agbonlahor is doubtful for them. Hopefully he is ruled out because he has been in fine form this season.

mickman

agreed

we are at home so JD should do well - all rested cos he wasnt involved with england etc.

3-1 to spurs i think with jenas having a stinker!

Sugarlumps

Jenas is on loan so that clown won't feature. Good news if Agbonlahor is side lined.

mickman

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Jenas is on loan so that clown won't feature. Good news if Agbonlahor is side lined.

we shlould insist that he does feature :-)

SuprSi

Hopefully the lads can continue where they left off. VDV needs to be 100% fit for this or it has to be Defoe who I feel will be really up for it. It's about time Ade started scoring again too - he's played well but just hasn't put the ball in the net. Having said that, it's great that we're still winning with only one striker scoring. If he starts putting the ball in we could end up thumping a few teams.

King in defence, which is great, though I still feel we'll concede a goal as we always seem to, but I hope we'll have too much in the middle and up front for them.

It would be fantastic to keep this run going, especially with Chelsea and Liverpool playing each other as one or both of them will lose points.

ziedth

Ya with the Chelsea/Liverpool game and Newcastle surely going to drop at least two points (I can't believe I am checking on their games) I think a win is going to be huge.

fabvinny

wouldnt risk VDV,wait till he is fully fit,chelsea coming up,need him ready for that.think defoe would do well against villa.3-0 spurs,

everdead.ie

Any kind of a win will see us up to fourth and hopefully a draw or 1 goal win for chelsea tomorrow and we could be as high as third with a game in hand.

PogMoThoin

Just what we wanted to hear, we badly need these 3 points, would put us in great shape

Hi guys, I'm ready to play tomorrow! Looking forward to the game.

http://twitter.com/#!/rafvdvaart/status/138334979309568000

Leinstersqspur

Nice one Rafa!

A win should see us 3rd with a game in hand. COYS!

Hatch99

even bigger game after the russians lost..coys

KingdomYid

Hatch99 wrote: »

even bigger game after the russians lost..coys

Yeah Chelsea look very disjointed and wide open at the back, shame we are not playing them sooner as we would rip them to shreds with Bale and Lennon getting in behind. I hope they dont get their act together in the next few weeks. Back to tomorrow night, it will not be easy but an early goal should set us up for a home win. COYS!

everdead.ie

3 points is a must put some distance between us and the rest while we can

fabvinny

hopefully this time tomorrow night we will be sitting pretty in 3rd place with a game in hand!!!

Leinstersqspur

Redknapp back too... Should be a great atmosphere! COYS!

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

The ground should be rocking alright. This season is a massive opportunity for us to do better than just breaking into the top 4.

ziedth

I'd rip your arm off if you offered me top 4 now

I was delighted to see Chelsea loose yesterday. Liverpool are much more likely to drop those three points against mid table teams down the line.

Biggest three points of the season so far.

oppiuy

One thing im really looking forward to is when we really hit top gear. At times this year we've looked outstanding during certain periods of games and rarely kept it going for 90mins. I can only dream of what sort of run we'll go on when that happens.

Adebayor is playing really well without hitting the back of the net regulary, i think tonight he could bag a few.

What i dont want to hear is Harry , Bond or any of the lads coming out with any stuff about winning the league. We did it last year and fell apart. Keep it in house, try stay under the radar for as long as possible and i think second or third is well within reach

ziedth

God I'd love to be part of a title challenge, just to experience it like. Even in with a mathematical chance with 3 games to go would be unbelievable. I don't think in a million years it will happen to be honest but it would be real dreams come true stuff.

galwayspur

Really big opportunity for us to lay down a marker to the teams around us.
I think we'll win 3-1, going to back Bale to net the last goal as well.

Sugarlumps

• Jermain Defoe has scored three goals in his last four home league matches against Villa.
• Tottenham have made their best start to a season since 1990, when they also had 22 points from 10 matches.
• Tottenham are unbeaten in their last five league matches against Aston Villa. Spurs recorded 2-1 victories home and away last season, with Rafael van der Vaart scoring twice on both occasions and Marc Albrighton netting Villa's goal each time.
• Villa's only win in their last 11 league visits to Tottenham was by 2-1 in September 2008 when Nigel Reo-Coker and Ashley Young scored for Villa. Current Villa forward Darren Bent scored for Tottenham.
• Harry Redknapp is unbeaten in his last 10 Premier League matches against Aston Villa since Portsmouth's 1-0 defeat at Villa Park in March 2006.

KingdomYid

Can't wait for this one now . I must say it is great to be a Spurs fan right now, after all the years of mediocracy it is fantastic. COYS!!!!!!!!!!

Hatch99

KingdomYid wrote: »

Can't wait for this one now . I must say it is great to be a Spurs fan right now, after all the years of mediocracy it is fantastic. COYS!!!!!!!!!!

Lets not settle for were we are now lets aim for the top COYS

Hatch99

oppiuy wrote: »

Adebayor is playing really well without hitting the back of the net regulary, i think tonight he could bag a few.

Enhanced to 6s in PP.

Antisocialiser

Hatch99 wrote: »

Enhanced to 6s in PP.

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Blatter

Antisocialiser wrote: »

Hatch99 wrote: »

Enhanced to 6s in PP.

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I imagine Paddy Power are offering a special price on him of 6/1 to score the first goal.

T-b0n3

Going to be in work for this one unfortunately but I'm fairly confident. COYS

Blatter

Spurs; Friedel, Assou Ekotto, King, Kaboul, Walker, Bale, Modric, Parker, Lennon, VDV, Adabayor

Strongest possible team for ye with the exception of maybe Kaboul, looking forward to this game.

everdead.ie

two right backsd playing against Bale today Cuellar and Hutton.

tippspur

Hope we do it tonight......coys.

Sugarlumps

Hutton is a weak link in the Villa team, hopefully he gets exposed and the goals reign in tonight.

everdead.ie

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Hutton is a weak link in the Villa team, hopefully he gets exposed and the goals reign in tonight.

He's playing right mid though so shouldn't be too much of a liability

electrobanana

Benny's sporting some hairstyle tonight:D

Sugarlumps

everdead.ie wrote: »

He's playing right mid though so shouldn't be too much of a liability

Ah bollocks.

davycc

electrobanana wrote: »

Benny's sporting some hairstyle tonight:D

Looks like and extra from CATS the musical:D

only he could pull it off so well:cool:

Sugarlumps

Get the fock in!!!

electrobanana

get in there ade should be 2 tbf

frag420

Good man Ade!!

He needed that!!

COYS!!

frag420

electrobanana wrote: »

Benny's sporting some hairstyle tonight:D

Side Show Ben!!

fungun

here we go again, every time the opposition have a corner we hear "AWAY!!!"

electrobanana

well in there by parker had to be perfect

Sugarlumps

We seem to always have a high tally of corners in games but rarely ever score from them. VDV looks on fine form.

electrobanana

yes get in what a ball from bale.

frag420

Great stuff from Bale. One more and we can wrap it up!!

COYS

electrobanana

A hat trick for ade tonight and his confidence would go through the roof..coys

cranks

Evening lads and lassies.
A worriyingly smooth first half there. Dare I say it but Spurs looking good.
Spurs fan mindset kicking in tho.....What's the betting we concede early into second half, rattle for about 40 minutes and get away with a 2-1 win?

ziedth

I await 2-1 and a nervous finale please just once put them to bed spurs.

fabvinny

shud be game over!!! we need a 3rd to be sure!!!

Inquitus

Aside from the poor finishing at times we are on another planet tonight.

SuprSi

Wow Adebayor could've had 4 or 5! He missed a header from 6 yards, a one-on-one with the keeper, madness!! I was worried we'd concede after missing so many opportunities, but they had hardly anything to show.

Great result and performance and we're sitting pretty in 3rd! COYS!