Tottenham v. Chelsea League Cup Stamford Bridge, London, 2:45PM TV: None, but I signed up for a free 7-day sub to ESPN+ The League Cup is the least of our worries, but it's Spurs. And Sarri has the chance to get to his first ever Cup final. Yes, that's true. I checked it. Spurs are without some important players: Son (Asia Cup), Alli, Kane, Wanyama are out. Sissoko, Moura are late fitness tests. Chelsea are without RLC and any kind of a goal threat. How are we going to score 2 goals? I doubt we can. Go on. You know what the starting lineup will be. Go ahead. Oh yeah, there it is. Willian-Hazard-Pedro Kante-Jorg_Kovacic Alonso-Rudiger-Luiz-Azpi Kepa As sure as the day is long.
spurs really are hit bad with injuries right now though. however, they are solid defensively. they can hold and counter at this point already, that's a huge advantage for a team that is lacking their attacking options. i really really hope RLC can make a comeback from his injury soon. i think he could make that last midfield spot his over both Kovacic and Barkley, both of whom have been lacking lately.
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Alonso out. Barkley instead of Kovacic. Remember when Barkley had a good game and London had a water shortage because of all the laundry the reporters were doing because they had so many wet dreams over this guy? Nice to see Giroud up top.
not sure how that's not a yellow from dier on luiz challenge, and the commentator has a lot of balls after multiple replays saying luiz is play acting. he went straight down and stayed down.
KANTE!!!! bad clearance from a corner and kante smacks it low from outside the box and still manages to meg the keeper due to the SLIGHTEST of deflections on the way through.
looks like Ben Davies has picked up an injury, but Rose is on the bench so pretty straight swap if needed. ...and it looks like it's needed. he wasn't even down long, he must have known straight away, no play between him down and the swap. Rose comes on to make the free kick.
HAZARD!!!!!!!!! 2-1 dave overlaps and makes a good low cut back to hazard who'd dropped in to the center space that giroud cleared out by making the forward run. so basically exactly what should be happening with a CF on.