Sunderland Away

mickman

Tough game away to sunderland, they are playing well since o neill took over so we will find this very difficult. They got a very good draw away to city also.

I would settle for a draw but i could see us losing this 2-0

Hatch99

Tough game but I don't see us getting beaten. We have played well over the last 2/3 games and seem to be back in form to some degree. A draw would probably be ok, but 3 points would be huge to put major pressure on the goons when they play citeh.

ziedth

I think we need at least the draw but a win would be massive. this i feel is one of our hardest games left. safe to say Chelsea might gain ground on us this weekend so hopefully we can at least overtake Arsenal.

Seillejet

I think this game would suit Defoe starting. His shoot on sight style is needed with the limited possession we may have. Maybe Nelsen in preference to Gallas too as his style is more suited to mixing it.

Again I am confident we can score and possibly win this, going for a 2-1 win with us conceeding late on.

A win would really keep the pressure on Arsenal and keep Chelsea at bay. To dare is to do and all that jazz.

mickman

no changes except for lennon i think

wouldnt play nelson either

Seillejet

This is from Gallas. I really like his attitude and I think experience might win out over Arsenal as we have some older heads in our team now.

"I think the confidence is back. After the draw against Chelsea and the victories against Bolton and Swansea, the confidence is back," the defender told Tottenham's official website.

"Now, like I said to everyone, every game is a final for us. We have to be strong if we want to finish third.

"We have to play every game with 100 per cent, and at the end of the season we will go on our holidays and feel that maybe we deserved to finish third.

"Before that we have to give everything. Before the game we have to speak together and we have to know that we are not tired, and that we can be tired at the end of the season."

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Just realised we're playing Monday again. Good thing about this is that it's against Norwich, I think Lambert may play a weakened team to pervent tiredness so hopefully we can expose that (if it happens).
Anyways, as for tomorrow this is our toughest remaining fixture. I wouldn't be surprised to see us lose, but at the same time I don't think we will. I'd like to see us start with the same XI as the last day and have Lennon in reserve just in case. Gallas and Kaboul are playing well so I don't see why either should be dropped. Bring King back in on Monday with Lennon. Walker has a very important role tomorrow, especially if Lennon doesn't start. Hopefully Harry will have his tactics sorted out again, it was refreshing to see us mix it up the last day.

tippspur

Hopefully we can keep up the good form we showed in the last few games,I think we will beat them,we have the players to do it if they can put in the huge effort need to win..Newcastle are back sniffing around again just when we thought they were gone away.that's all we need now is another team fighting for a CL place.

everdead.ie

King will play today so hes available for next week.

Lennon and Livermore on the bench so they can start on Monday

Seillejet

everdead.ie wrote: »

King will play today so hes available for next week.

Lennon and Livermore on the bench so they can start on Monday

Newcastle are on a good run. Chelsea and city will be tough for them.

Glad this is an early kick off. Can get on with the day after we get a good result and puts a bit of pressure on those around us.

Was at Sunderland match once. Didn't like the place at all, couldn't wait to get back to Newcastle. That said I like O Neill, but not today.

ziedth

I'm going for 2-1 win today. Ade with a brace.

keane=cock

need a win. i think this is our hardest remaining fixture and ARSEnal have two possible stumbling blocks so we need to put the squeeze on them

pleasant Co.

Not sure where to watch this in galway today, there's a Food Festival on today and my 2 choice pubs for matches have events on. I can't watch the match with Maeve Higgins being awkward in the background.

keane=cock

STARTING LINE-UP
Friedel; Walker, Gallas, Kaboul, Assou-Ekotto; Parker, Modric, Sandro; Van der Vaart, Adebayor, Bale.
SUBS
Cudicini, Nelsen, Kranjcar, Lennon, Livermore, Defoe, Saha.

ziedth

That's a great looking bench in all fairness.

Leinstersqspur

Fancy Bale to score today... 2-1 to the Spurs!

COYS!

Sugarlumps

Larsson always seems to score against us, Walker v Mclean should be a good battle. Cattermole knacker.

keane=cock

any good streams lads?

keane=cock

http://atdhenet.tv/45580/watch-sunderland-vs-tottenham

PogMoThoin

Good one here too:
http://www.firstrowsports.eu/watch/117427/1/watch-sunderland-afc-vs-tottenham-hotspur.html

Kiith

Nice and controlling so far. Was definitely hand ball there, but he knew nothing about it. Need to get a goal from this possession though.

Leinstersqspur

Kiith wrote: »

Nice and controlling so far. Was definitely hand ball there, but he knew nothing about it. Need to get a goal from this possession though.

Except Sandro, he's been poor so far.. Livermore could be on at half time if he doesn't wake up!

BAE goes left, goes right, goes left, goes right, goes left:D

Leinstersqspur

keane=cock wrote: »

any good streams lads?

Bloodzeed @ wiziwig.tv ... Best stream out there!

pleasant Co.

Fairly worried anytime BAE touches the ball

Seillejet

Kaboul seems to be worried about BAE too.

Good game from a neutral point of view. Hugely competitive and some tasty challenges going in.

Leinstersqspur

Sandro :eek:

PogMoThoin

Sandro needs to go, he's been terrible today so far

Seillejet

I dont know he seems to be growing into it for me. We seem to be getting on top in midfield now.

Seillejet

What the hell is BAE doing passing back to Friedel from there !!

Leinstersqspur

Poor refereeing, two body checks no yellows?

pleasant Co.

Seillejet wrote: »

I dont know he seems to be growing into it for me. We seem to be getting on top in midfield now.

Same, he's a beast of a player, and we need that against this thuggish play, just needs to get that confidence up

Leinstersqspur

Is Vdv on the pitch?

Sugarlumps

Bale back to roaming, hasn't tested Bardsley once.

mickman

Leinstersqspur wrote: »

Is Vdv on the pitch?

Yep but he seems to think he is playing right back for some strange reason :-)

Seillejet

Leinstersqspur wrote: »

Is Vdv on the pitch?

Was hoping he was going to bang that in. Would have allowed me to use the line "he is now"!!

keane=cock

fairly even now after we totally dominated the first 20 mins or so

Seillejet

Happy enough with that. Our class is beginning to tell. What a pity Modric can't shoot!

Leinstersqspur

We're far too narrow again.. They've got two blocks of four in front of us...

We need pace and width to get in around them ala Utd v Blackburn midweek..

Sugarlumps

Dreadful 1st half, look nervy at the back. Get Defoe and Lennon on.

Kiith

Bring Lennon and Livermore on, and tell Bale to get the **** back on the left!!

frag420

Did the ref leave his cards in his changing room??

BERBA

toothless with sandro and parker playing together

Harry.....WIDTH is what we need , get lennon on and get bale on the wing.

fcuksake:mad:

keane=cock

need a goal early to put us on the front foot n then put a few past them to close the goal difference on the goons.

Sugarlumps

Sandro off.

Kiith

He's playing really poorly. Needs to be replaced. Take him off for Lennon, and go 4-4-2 or straight swap for Livermore.

keane=cock

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Sandro off.

silly challange there

Seillejet

Maybe sub him for Livermore now he has been booked.

Sugarlumps

Make a fúcking substitution.

keane=cock

Seillejet wrote: »

Maybe sub him for Livermore now he has been booked.

considering the way he has played if he were to be sent off it would be disasterous. come on harry. a good manager is an active manager!!

keane=cock

here we go come on lennon

Seillejet

He did track back well to win it. Jaysus both sides are giving it away sloppily.