Matchday 5: Tottenham Hotspur vs. Chelsea FC [R]

[The Double]

Saturday, the 13th of September


Tottenham Hotspur Football Club

vs.

Chelsea FC


Away Fixture-Spurs@Stamford Bridge


As they Stand
Chelsea-5th Place, 3 games Played, 7 Points
Tottenham-15th Place, 4 Gams Played, 4 Points


For official news, line-ups and a match tracker
www.spurs.co.uk


GameCast by ESPNSoccernet
Link not availble yet, will post when its ready.

Post line-ups, opinions, bookings, play-by-plays predictions etc.

[Danners9]

Glenn Hoddle will have his two new loan signings available for the trip across London.

French midfielder Stephane Dalmat played for the reserves in their 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Arsenal earlier in the week, while Charlton defender Paul Konchesky is also in contention.

Hoddle has no new injury worries, and has Gus Poyet, Robbie Keane, Kazu Toda and Christian Ziege all back in training.

Tottenham (from): Keller, Carr, King, Richards, Gardner, Taricco, Davies, Redknapp, Ricketts, Anderton, Postiga, Zamora, Kanoute, Dalmat, Konchesky, Bunjevcevic, Acimovic, Doherty, Marney, Mabizela, Hirschfeld




Team, my opinion, should be:

Keller

Konchesky, King, Gardner, Richards, Carr

Dalmat, Redknapp, Davies

Kanoute, Postiga

Subs: Hirschfeld, Mabizela, Ricketts, Anderton, Zamora.

[Danners9]

Originally posted by Danners9


Team, my opinion, should be:

Keller

Konchesky, King, Gardner, Richards, Carr

Dalmat, Redknapp, Davies

Kanoute, Postiga

Subs: Hirschfeld, Mabizela, Ricketts, Anderton, Zamora.

Shows how much i know..

Line-ups: Chelsea: Cudicini, Melchiot, Babayaro, Desailly, Terry, Petit, Lampard, Gronkjaer, Mutu, Hasselbaink, Duff.

Subs: Makelele, Cole, Gudjohnsen, Ambrosio, Gallas.

Spurs: Keller, Carr, Taricco, Gardner, Richards, King, Anderton, Redknapp, Ricketts, Kanoute, Zamora.

Subs: Burch, Postiga, Bunjevcevic, Dalmat, Konchesky.

[soccernutter]

Why is Postiga not starting?!?!

Interesting that Mabizela is not even in the squad.

[Danners9]

Maybe the same reason that Davies and Veron aren't either.

International in midweek.

Veron not included, as he flew to venezuela in the week.

Davies played 2 games in a week for Wales, one in Italy one in Cardiff.

Postiga played for Portugal U21s.

Mabizela has said he's not really ready to play, he's having a hard time acclimatising at the moment. He'll be featured vs Coventry in the cup, i feel.

But look at Chelsea's side.

Babayaro, Melchiot, Petit, Gronkjaer. Weaker than it could be. A blessing perhaps, these guys aren't very good. Some haven't played, and Gronkjaer is a lightweight.

Champs Lge game in midweek, so.... come on Spurs :D!

[The Double]

Chelsea FC-4
Tottenham Hotspur-2

[Danners9]

Bugger. Could have been more.. Mutu missed a sitter from 2 yards. Dalmat set up Zamora who should have scored.

Dalmat looked class when he came on, probably not the best game to shine in either. First game and all.. Southampton next, then Coventry in the cup and then Man City.

3 wins please.

[soccernutter]

Based on the way the game sounded, Spurs seemed to play neck and neck with Chelsea until King went off. Then Chelsea got the upper hand. In the second half, though, we were really exposed wide in Midfield. Not a good sign. I liked that Dalmat made an immediate impact - a good shot with in a few minutes of entering the game.

Hope King isn't out too long. But today I think showed that we have 4 solid strikers.

[Danners9]

Yep, that sounds fair. We caused Chelsea a lot of problems, but also seemed very weak at the back - nervous more than anything i think.

We were the better side until they scored their first goal, then they upped the game and just dominated.

We looked good when Dalmat came on, until they scored. Typical.

Southampton next week, should be a better game to assess Konchesky and Dalmat.

No news on King yet.

[Danners9]

Originally posted by soccernutter

Hope King isn't out too long. But today I think showed that we have 4 solid strikers.

Official Site: Glenn Hoddle expects Ledley King to be out for 'a few weeks' after suffering a hamstring injury at Chelsea on Saturday.
The defender limped out of the action at Stamford Bridge after 41 minutes of our 4-2 Premiership defeat.

It's another blow for the 22-year-old having just shaken off an ankle problem that kept him out for the majority of pre-season.

"Ledley's got a hamstring and after being able to play that back three, that's the disappointing side to it," said Glenn. "He'll be out for a few weeks."

[soccernutter]

That is not good. Who steps in? Doherty? ;)