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Tottenham's second string vs asters tripolis
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Kingdawson
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Tbh i also think Chiriches is garbage but would rather he does his damage in a Europa game and we don't risk injury to Vertonghen (Fazio and Kaboul pairing scares me).
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Vedran Corluka
I'd go with:
.........................Vorm.........................
Naughton.....Fazio.........Vertonghen.........Davies
.................Mason.........Cpoue.....................
Lamela..............Eriksen.....................Chadli
.......................Soldado..............................
i'd be looking to give minutes to Lennon, Stambouli and Kane.
.........................Vorm.........................
Naughton.....Fazio.........Vertonghen.........Davies
.................Mason.........Cpoue.....................
Lamela..............Eriksen.....................Chadli
.......................Soldado..............................
i'd be looking to give minutes to Lennon, Stambouli and Kane.
Really hope Poch agrees.
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Tim Sherwood
Lennon at RB. It's the future (well his future, if not necessarily ours).
metalgear
Nayim
He is capable of more than that. Not sure what was in his head, same disease as lamela, surely can't be because of the coaching can it?
Spurs7891
Jermaine Jenas
We shouldn't be complacent in EL. With the CL being the price for the winner, we should go all out to win it. We should put a strong side to face Asteras. Afterall, we have been struggling in almost all our matches so far this season. Making too many changes are only going to affect us. Asteras has done well tho lead the group, winning and drawing 1 each. We have yet to win after 2 matches. So, this is a must-win match for us if we want to progress to the next stage.
The only ones I would consider resting are the in-form players like Lloris, Eriksen, Chadli and Capoue. All the others like Lamela and Soldado need to play in this sort of matches to build their confidence and form. Ofcourse without Eriksen and Chadli, we will struggle to score goals. This is where the likes of Kane and Soldado should step up. After their bad performance against ManCity, Lamela and Soldado badly need a good performance to get back their confidence. After his penalty miss against City, Soldado badly need a goal from somewhere to revive his Spurs Career.
In midfield, want to see us play the likes of Dembele, Stambouli, Townsend and Lennon. Not convinced of Townsend but maybe he can play some part. Hope we will give some chance to Paulinho as well. It is really disappointing the way Paulinho has gone missing completely. He came with a big reputation in Brazil but has yet to fully impress since joining us. Hope he will do well if given a chance here.
We have a big problem in defence as all are too-error prone. Chiriches was the main culprit against Besiktas, causing us to concede the lat equaliser. Not sure who we can rely upon in defence. Just hope they will avoid any stupid mistakes. Since we are playing at home, there is no excuse whatsoever why we cannot win this match. Anything other than a win will be unacceptable !
The only ones I would consider resting are the in-form players like Lloris, Eriksen, Chadli and Capoue. All the others like Lamela and Soldado need to play in this sort of matches to build their confidence and form. Ofcourse without Eriksen and Chadli, we will struggle to score goals. This is where the likes of Kane and Soldado should step up. After their bad performance against ManCity, Lamela and Soldado badly need a good performance to get back their confidence. After his penalty miss against City, Soldado badly need a goal from somewhere to revive his Spurs Career.
In midfield, want to see us play the likes of Dembele, Stambouli, Townsend and Lennon. Not convinced of Townsend but maybe he can play some part. Hope we will give some chance to Paulinho as well. It is really disappointing the way Paulinho has gone missing completely. He came with a big reputation in Brazil but has yet to fully impress since joining us. Hope he will do well if given a chance here.
We have a big problem in defence as all are too-error prone. Chiriches was the main culprit against Besiktas, causing us to concede the lat equaliser. Not sure who we can rely upon in defence. Just hope they will avoid any stupid mistakes. Since we are playing at home, there is no excuse whatsoever why we cannot win this match. Anything other than a win will be unacceptable !
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milo
Jack L. Jones
I disagree. We need to use the squad. Our cup team might have struggled a bit but they are good enough to get out of the group and we will be in an even worse place if one of the first team players gets injured and none of the squad outside of the match day squad has played any competitive football.
It is also a chance for us to get some competition for places. If players who perform well in the cup side get promoted to the PL team then it should push up performances across the squad.
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Tim Sherwood
Naughton and Bentaleb are out too
Yeah. It's not about now. It's being clever now to prevent us hitting a wall around March time like we used to do under Redknapp.
Track record suggests Poch will change the outfield 10 from City entirely. Possible exceptions being:
- Dier because of our RB injuries
- One of Fazio or Kaboul may play if he intends to play Verts instead of them against Saudi Sportswashing Machine
milo
Jack L. Jones
Fazio will definitely play because he is suspended this weekend. It will be telling whether Chiriches is trusted again or whether he is cast aside.
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Tim Sherwood
Btw, who has been playing below par this season?
For me:
Above expectation - Dier, Naughton, Kaboul, Rose, Capoue, Mason, Chadli, Kane
As expected - Lloris, Verts, Dembele, Townsend, Lennon, Eriksen, Lamela, Soldado
Below expectation - Chiriches, Bentaleb, Paulinho, Ade
Can't tell yet - Vorm, Walker, Fazio, Stambouli
I'd say that's a lot more successes than failures
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Tim Sherwood
I'd like to hope Poch and the coaches have been in his ear for the last fortnight boosting his confidence. I think there have been signs that they've been improving Lamela and Soldados mental resilience.
He'll also be fitter than the last game, and we don't know how much of a factor that was.
I'd play Chiriches and rest Verts (I'd forgotten Fazio would be suspended).
Remember our home cup fans are also a lot more supportive of our own players than our home league fans, so it's not going to be the worst arena to come back into.
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Kingdawson
Banned
Kaboul above expectation? he's been horrendous bar one game.
Eriksen and Townsend have definitely been below expectation, Kane would be as expected to me, Soldado hasn't played enough to judge.
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Tim Sherwood
Kaboul was great against Arsenal and fit for a few more. That's above my expectations. I think we all know smart, agile forwards like Aguero will always tear him a new one.
Eriksen we know can be inconsistent and is still too peripheral in some games, but that's normal for young playmakers (see Modric's first season with us). Townsend I only have hope of him improving because his record of knuckling down and raising his game when he's been written off as having hit his ceiling.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
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