Tottenham Pre Match Thread

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Looking at the remaining 13 fixtures, I can only realistically see us getting about another 17 points. This would have us on 64, which was enough for 4th spot last season.
In recent seasons, we've been able to finish with a string of wins to cement our position.
Can anyone seriously see us putting a run of wins together?
 
Hart
Sagna, Kompany, Otamendi, Clichy
Sterling, Dinho, Delph, Barker
Kelechi, Kun
 
2sheikhs said:
Looking at the remaining 13 fixtures, I can only realistically see us getting about another 17 points. This would have us on 64, which was enough for 4th spot last season.
In recent seasons, we've been able to finish with a string of wins to cement our position.
Can anyone seriously see us putting a run of wins together?
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Not won back to back in the League in how many games?(17th October) yep we're fucked!
 
Fowlers Penalty Miss said:
Fourth in the league, and not out of the race.

I'll be buying a Wembley ticket for a final soon, which most supporters of any team would give their right arm for, my payment for the game in the final stages of the Champions League goes out today, and we are still in the FA Cup.

It's a really shit season so far, isn't it?

We beat Spurs on Sunday, Arsenal beat Leicester, and the whole complexion changes.

Stop being so melodramatic.

There is loads of football still to be played, and we are still in the race.

I'd loved to have seen this place 20 years ago. Fuck me, a dose of Prozac would have been sent to every new subscriber.
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You don't get it do you
 
2sheikhs said:
Looking at the remaining 13 fixtures, I can only realistically see us getting about another 17 points. This would have us on 64, which was enough for 4th spot last season.
In recent seasons, we've been able to finish with a string of wins to cement our position.
Can anyone seriously see us putting a run of wins together?
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At the moment we seem to be relying on Aguero to keep us in the hunt. But if we can just keep in touch for the next month until a few of the injured players (especially Kompany) are back we could put a run together. With City things can swing from despair to jubilation (and back) fairly quickly. And the other contenders will drop points.

If Aguero and Kompany each play in more than 10 of the remaining fixtures we will win the league.
 
shemnel said:
feck me spurs havent lost away since the opening day at United! let's make it two
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please lets not refer to them with that word, especially with a capital 'U'.

there are much more preferable terms:

Red scum bastards
Swamp dwellers
scum fuckers - etc.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I would field

Hart
Zaba, Sagna, Otamendi, Clichy
Fernando
Stirling, Fernandinho, Delph
Kelechi
Aguero

Subs Willie, kolorov, Martin, Yaya, Garcia, Celina, Humphries

Keep it tight and work like hell to match spuds work rate and hope to nick a goal. Consider Yaya in last 20 mins as impact sub.
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----------------Hart
Zab--Kompany--Otamendi--Clichy
Fernando-Delph-Fernandinho-Kolarov
---------Aguero--Sterling

And if Kompany is not ready, then Sagna in central defence

Like you I'd bring in Yaya for last 30 mins. When the game gets stretched his accurate passing can control the game.

I think it's very likely Yaya will start. if he does they'll dominate the midfield
 
g180aj said:
Hart
Sagna, Kompany, Otamendi, Clichy
Sterling, Dinho, Delph, Barker
Kelechi, Kun
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Not the game for Barker. I know it's fashionable to leave Yaya out of predicted first XIs these days but Barker would be hauled off at half-time if he started - remember his loan move to Rotherham was terminated a month ago? Yeah. There's time yet for Barker to make a name for himself, but not Sunday. We should go with a 4-1-2-1-2 formation with a packed midfield, overlapping full backs and Sterling in the hole. It's easily adaptable to 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 depending on how the game is panning out and it's the most ideal way to compensate for our shortage of attacking midfielders. Liverpool pushed us all the way in 2014 with Henderson, Gerrard and Coutinho in a three behind Sterling, who supported Suarez and Sturridge.

Hart
Zabaleta - Kompany - Otamendi - Kolarov/Clichy
Yaya Toure - Fernandinho - Delph
Sterling
Aguero - Kelechi

Caballero, Clichy/Kolarov, Sagna, Demichelis, Fernando, Celina, Bony.
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I'm fearing the worst for this game, in all honesty. Spurs have suddenly found this ability to win comfortably away from home (3 wins, 2 draws from their last five away games in the league) and our performances have been patchy for months now. If there was ever a time for Pellegrini to stop being so stubborn in big games and turn our season around then Sunday has to be it, but I think after three years we'd have seen signs of that by now. We'll no doubt set up 4-4-2 with Toure and Fernandinho in the middle with Sterling and Delph on the wings or something, and we'll be overrun. Spurs are an energetic, technical and athletic team with some genuinely wonderful young players, Alli especially, and a manager we seem to hate playing against (we usually beat Pochettino's teams comfortably on paper but the performances are never convincing).

I'm hoping for a 2-2 draw and an Arsenal win over Leicester just so we can stay in touch.
 
robbieh said:
Pellegrini is a bang average manager who has been extremely lucky to manage City for three years. He knew ages ago that the writing was on the wall for him and the poor performance against Leicester was nothing we hadn't seen before. There was a pre season game in Germany where we were a defensive shambles and every third game or so we implode, especially against the better teams. It's his fault that we don't defend better as a unit, no sympathy.

Besides all that Jupp Heynkes knew he was leaving Bayern but still won the treble in the shadow of Pep. Difference being Heynkes was a top coach and Pellegrini never was, isn't and never will be.
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Brilliant post
 
cibaman said:
At the moment we seem to be relying on Aguero to keep us in the hunt. But if we can just keep in touch for the next month until a few of the injured players (especially Kompany) are back we could put a run together. With City things can swing from despair to jubilation (and back) fairly quickly. And the other contenders will drop points.

If Aguero and Kompany each play in more than 10 of the remaining fixtures we will win the league.
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I like your optimism for sure but we need one of our playmakers back and in form for that to happen. I can't see that happen because I suspect David is either going to continue to play through pain and not be at his peak or will need rested to get rid of his injury. Samir and Kev are going to be back too late. That leaves us really short unless we do something completely left field like trust one of the youngsters in a playmaker position or Yaya suddenly clicks. I will be happy enough with top three and a cup given our current form and injuries.
 
IH8MUFC said:
Tottenham represent everything that our team hates in terms of their work rate. Its going tobe a hard game to win.
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Thats why we have very little chance. Id take a point now just
DJBusinesscake said:
Anyone actually confident about this game?
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Be surprised if theres any. We haven't turned up in the league since the first 5 games.
 
Will Spurs press high and play a high line? If so we're probably better to try our recent cup tactics of a quick mobile team and be happy to cede possession and try and play balls for forwards to chase or be ready to counterattack. Means the crowd would have to be patient as well.
 
It won't happen, but this should be the team, plenty of legs and just enough guile to pose enough attacking threat to edge it.

...........................HART.....................

......SAGNA...KOMPANY....OTAMENDI...CLICHY....

ZABALETA....DELPH....FERNANDINHO.....STERLING
............................KELECHI................
........................AGUERO............................
 
Barker? You have got to be fucking kidding me. Why would you throw an untried kid into a game like this. He has only just started to trust Kelechi.
 
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