League Cup Final - match thread

DubPerryman

Sky is reporting that Vertonghen will be captain, meaning Vorm starts in goal

Vorm

Walker - Dier - Vertonghen - Rose

Bentaleb - Mason

Lamela - Eriksen - Chadli

Kane



A lot of negativity/honesty/reality in the 'will we win it' thread. Though I don't agree. This is a cup final. Our youthful side could be nervy OR could be raring to go and hungry to win.

Chelsea missing Matic is massive, Fabregas may have to sit in. He's not used to that role. Plus, we beat them 5-3.... they're beatable. COYS!!!

davycc

Coys really looking forward to this !

It's always nervous watching our back four and if anyone makes a horrific individual error I will call them out on that.

Hopefully the ball spends more time in Chelsea half than ours..

Bricking it lol

tippspur

Up in a heap with nerves, coys

mickman

DubPerryman wrote: »

Sky is reporting that Vertonghen will be captain, meaning Vorm starts in goal

Vorm

Walker - Dier - Vertonghen - Rose

Bentaleb - Mason

Lamela - Eriksen - Chadli

Kane



A lot of negativity/honesty/reality in the 'will we win it' thread. Though I don't agree. This is a cup final. Our youthful side could be nervy OR could be raring to go and hungry to win.

Chelsea missing Matic is massive, Fabregas may have to sit in. He's not used to that role. Plus, we beat them 5-3.... they're beatable. COYS!!!

If we don't play lloris then losing him is much bigger than Chelsea missing matic and if he is dropped then it's lunacy

jobeenfitz

I'm feeling jealous watching the crowd outside Wembley, Never there and would love to be there today.

jobeenfitz

DubPerryman wrote: »

Sky is reporting that Vertonghen will be captain, meaning Vorm starts in goal

Vorm

Walker - Dier - Vertonghen - Rose

Bentaleb - Mason

Lamela - Eriksen - Chadli

Kane



A lot of negativity/honesty/reality in the 'will we win it' thread. Though I don't agree. This is a cup final. Our youthful side could be nervy OR could be raring to go and hungry to win.

Chelsea missing Matic is massive, Fabregas may have to sit in. He's not used to that role. Plus, we beat them 5-3.... they're beatable. COYS!!!

Maybe Poch just wants out field captain?

NomadicGray

Tottenham Hotspur ‏@SpursOfficial
#THFC team: Lloris (c), Walker, Dier, Vertonghen, Rose; Bentaleb, Mason; Chadli, Eriksen, Townsend; Kane #COYS

Lloris confirmed then

irishmover

NomadicGray wrote: »

Tottenham Hotspur ‏@SpursOfficial
#THFC team: Lloris (c), Walker, Dier, Vertonghen, Rose; Bentaleb, Mason; Chadli, Eriksen, Townsend; Kane #COYS

Lloris confirmed then

Like that team bar Townsend.

jobeenfitz

irishmover wrote: »

Like that team bar Townsend.

gonna back Townsend to score first cos he is sure to take about ten shots in first half being at Wembley. I think he would also take the penalty if we got one?

mass_debater

No Lamela or Dembele thank fcuk

https://twitter.com/SpursOfficial/status/572046818500075521

irishmover

jobeenfitz wrote: »

gonna back Townsend to score first cos he is sure to take about ten shots in first half being at Wembley. I think he would also take the penalty if we got one?

There's a reason why we complain about Townsend's shooting. They're normally closer to the corner flag than the bottom corner.

jobeenfitz

The same team that beat chelsea in January except for Fazzio. Although Dembelle came on after 15 mins for Mason that day. A similar result today would be heaven.

davycc

mass_debater wrote: »

No Lamela or Dembele thank fcuk

https://twitter.com/SpursOfficial/status/572046818500075521

Or Ade! About time lamela was benched hopefully he will learn from it, assuming he has a brain

irishmover

COYS

irishmover

Great tackle by Dier.

Why do Chelsea always seem to have the douchebag strikers?

Dave11

I can't understand why Rose is so reluctant to attack down the left. 9/10 possessions he turns back with the ball.

oppiuy

Chadli better not appear for the second half. He is diabolical

mass_debater

oppiuy wrote: »

Chadli better not appear for the second half. He is diabolical

I'd prefer Dembele for Townsend

DubPerryman

Big second half ahead.
We love coming back from 1-0 down. We've done it to Chelsea in a league cup final.

I think Eriksen needs more of an outlet around him, Zouma can be got at.

oppiuy

When we break we look so slow and we never seem to get players in the box

mickman

Awful match - we are appalling and could not score if we were there all day

Dembele should have started , bad mistake

jobeenfitz

We have to score next. I think we will if we don't panic.

irishmover

mickman wrote: »

Awful match - we are appalling and could not score if we were there all day

Dembele should have started , bad mistake

Thought we looked OK.

mickman

irishmover wrote: »

Thought we looked OK.

Not one clear cut chance

irishmover

mickman wrote: »

Not one clear cut chance

We've had better chances than Chelsea (bar the goal and header straight after).

mickman

Another half a chance and another goal

In the space of a week , the season is over

We will likely finish 7th

Sugarlumps

Nothing coming down either wing, and the pitch is huge compared to WHL, too much reliance on Kane.

mass_debater

mickman wrote: »

Another half a chance and another goal

In the space of a week , the season is over

We will likely finish 7th

Least we'd be out of Europa next year

irishmover

mickman wrote: »

Another half a chance and another goal

In the space of a week , the season is over

We will likely finish 7th

The season would be over if we win or lose this anyway. Its just whether wegot silverware or not was the thing.

I think if we can place 7th or higher its a season to build on for Poch.

oppiuy

This and the europa league was our season and we balls both up...instead of playing each game on its merits we keep chopping and changing. Chelsea don't, top of league and 2-0 up here

We looked like frighten rabbits out there

irishmover

I dont think it'll remain 2-0.

mickman

irishmover wrote: »

The season would be over if we win or lose this anyway. Its just whether wegot silverware or not was the thing.

I think if we can place 7th or higher its a season to build on for Poch.

Will be very hard to lift the players after this past week . 7th would be a poor season , worse than last year , would be a step backwards in my opinion

irishmover

mickman wrote: »

Will be very hard to lift the players after this past week . 7th would be a poor season , worse than last year , would be a step backwards in my opinion

Considering the amount of academy players/young players we got, a season like this should only help develop them. Finish 7th next season and its just not good enough.

irishmover

How to confirm a defeat.

Bring lamela on for mason.

jobeenfitz

Come on Soldado, ya ****n owe us something

irishmover

Wouldn't we get Europa league as runners up anyway?

BorneTobyWilde

Wouldn't be a cup final without one player ending up with a bloody
bandage around his head.

Mr. Guappa

irishmover wrote: »

Wouldn't we get Europa league as runners up anyway?

Nope.. that only applies to the FA cup.

BorneTobyWilde

If Spurs score two in the next 5 mins and Chelsea score no more goals it will go to extra time.

irishmover

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

Nope.. that only applies to the FA cup.

Thank Christ for that.

oppiuy

Pretty poor today which kind of mirrors our season... We really are miles behind Chelsea city Liverpool. And arsenal

irishmover

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

If Spurs score two in the next 5 mins and Chelsea score no more goals it will go to extra time.

Biggest IF in the history of it's right there.

BorneTobyWilde

Interesting fact, no one has beating Spurs more times today than Chelsea FC .

Sugarlumps

Well at least they played to the whistle and didn't get tonked. Hazard & Fabergas were kept relatively quite, unfortunately we lack the creative guile going forward.

Congrats to Chelsea.

irishmover

I said to my dad it would be 2-0 Chelsea. God damnit...

mickman

Awful awful performance

Men against boys

The slide continues

BorneTobyWilde

Spurs done ok, Chelsea are hard to break down. Liverpool would be here if they could of
finished some of the 15 chances over the two legs.
Spurs lacked a bit of quality in the final 3rd today.

irishmover

mickman wrote: »

Awful awful performance

Men against boys

The slide continues

Most chelsea fans didn't really rate Chelsea either. Think we were poor but two goals were our own fault.

mickman

irishmover wrote: »

Most chelsea fans didn't really rate Chelsea either. Think we were poor but two goals were our own fault.

Yes they were our own fault . That's the sign of a poor team

Not for one minute did we look like scoring today , even for the free kick Czech had it covered

irishmover

mickman wrote: »

Yes they were our own fault . That's the sign of a poor team

Not for one minute did we look like scoring today , even for the free kick Czech had it covered

Mark eriksen and Kane out of the game and this is what happens. I think mourinho watched that 5-3 over and over to plug the holes.

irishmover

4am here. Off to bed.. Disappointing