Mazzy

Would love to see Porro have to go off. He's one of their best players.

Yes. Wait at least 45 minutes.

Really deserved a third in that first half. Don't Spurs have the best goals in second half ratio or something? Worrying if so .

Are Spurs worse at defending than we are? Surely not.

Hmmm. This could be a penalty. Although he does put his head down to it.

Got to say, I'm really impressed by Gordon's corners. Obviously having him on them takes him out of being able to defend counters but Murphy is there for that today.

Easy to say but Isak should've taken that first time.

That should have been 3.

Oh my days. Van de Ven needs to take off his sprinting boots and put his stay on his feet boots on.

Man he's so quick he can't stand up!

But he's so fast why give him a yellow card. Crazy stuff.

It's almost like an asymmetrical 5 at the back. Burn pushes out into LB when Anderson moves forward. Quite clever but it's clearly designed to play in the counter so Barnes is struggling to get back sometimes. Plus Longstaff and Bruno are having to do alot more legwork than usual.

The games started and Ive got even less of a clue about whose playing where and why formation. Kind of looks like 5 at the back maybe?

I agree with the first part. Very sceptical about the second. I'm waiting to be pleasantly surprised by the performance today. Not expecting anything though and that's how I'd prefer it for now.

Injured.

Because as Howe said neither have trained all week and both are recovering from injury. Sensible thing not to put them straight back in, unlike what we did previously this season and rushing players back.

Looks more like Burn at RW according to the graphic. I really hate they do it in number order rather than formation order.

If he does that from RB I'll be even more impressed.

Jacob Murphy and Krafth at full back it is then.

So Hall and Tino are there in the squad but that doesn't mean they start surely? If neither have trained all week. Guess we'll find out in 9 minutes.

Toney available for £50M. Would expect he's off to Arsenal/Spurs/Man Utd but that does seem cheap considering that's less than what Bournemouth want for Solanke (apparently).

Yikes, looking at some of these potential line ups is depressing. Hall being out just as he was getting his chance is absolutely typical of this season. Krafth at LB and Murphy at RB would be my guess. Can't see Howe throwing Alex Murphy into this game from nowhere. Really wouldn't mess about disturbing Schar and Burn in the middle.

Any reason why not? Plenty of reports linking us with Lloyd Kelly and he's mainly played LB this season. Obviously he's also a CB but I'd not be even slightly surprised to see us start next season with one of or both Schar and Burn at CB with a new LB and either Tripps or Tino at RB. Edit: just saw your previous reply.

I think this is the most important reason to keeping him for next couple of seasons at least. We can't replace him and get a couple of new CBs and a new RW and another ST and a LB. Getting someone who does what he does would cost us a fuck load and we need to focus on improving other areas far more desperately.

He'll have to be clever about it if he does get booked on Saturday and then needs to get that second yellow. Can't be too obvious about it, I'm sure players have been investigated in the past for intentionally receiving yellow cards.