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Tottenham Hotspur vs. Newcastle United: 04/01/25 @ 12:30 (TNT Sports)


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3 minutes ago, ianbeany said:

I'd forgot about Bentancur tbh.  But anyway all I was getting at is they will still have a very good team against us.  The way they are going on you'd think they'll be playing a load of kids

They’ll have a very good team going forwards against us.

 

A back 5 of Forster, Porro, Gray, Dragusin and Spence, not so much.

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4 minutes ago, SteV said:

They’ll have a very good team going forwards against us.

 

A back 5 of Forster, Porro, Gray, Dragusin and Spence, not so much.

True.  but our back 5 is in a similar situation so no excuses for them at all as far as I'm concerned

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16 minutes ago, STM said:

Can we have an updated likely line up from them?

From the Notmuchfightinthecock forum:

 

I've changed my mind regarding my team:

---------------------Forster---------------------
Porro---------Gray-----Dragusin------Spence
--------Bergvall--Bissouma---Sarr------------
--------------Maddison---kulusevski----------
---------------------Solanke---------------------


or

--------------------Forster---------------------
Porro--------Gray------Dragusin------Spence
--------------------Bissouma-------------------
----------------Sarr-------Kulu-----------------
-------------------Maddison--------------------
-------------Solanke---Son/Johnson----------

 

Dependant on latest illness casualties!

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1 minute ago, ianbeany said:

True.  but our back 5 is in a similar situation so no excuses for them at all as far as I'm concerned

We’re depleted at the back as well, definitely, but I wouldn’t say to the same extent they are. It would be like missing Burn and Hall on top of what we already are.

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8 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

From the Notmuchfightinthecock forum:

 

I've changed my mind regarding my team:

---------------------Forster---------------------
Porro---------Gray-----Dragusin------Spence
--------Bergvall--Bissouma---Sarr------------
--------------Maddison---kulusevski----------
---------------------Solanke---------------------


or

--------------------Forster---------------------
Porro--------Gray------Dragusin------Spence
--------------------Bissouma-------------------
----------------Sarr-------Kulu-----------------
-------------------Maddison--------------------
-------------Solanke---Son/Johnson----------

 

Dependant on latest illness casualties!

That side is more than good enough to win this game tbh.

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3 minutes ago, SteV said:

We’re depleted at the back as well, definitely, but I wouldn’t say to the same extent they are. It would be like missing Burn and Hall on top of what we already are.

I honestly dont think there's much in it.  VDV/Romero and Botman/Schar missing cancel each other out.  Spence has been been one of their best players lately so Udogie out is no big loss

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I actually hope Botman doesn't start this one, even when that means having to rely on Kelly. It seems like the club has learned their lesson on this anyways, so whatever decision they make will probably be of good reason. I'm just scarred from last season.[emoji38]

 

 

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Just now, ianbeany said:

I honestly dont think there's much in it.  VDV/Romero and Botman/Schar missing cancel each other out.  Spence has been been one of their best players lately so Udogie out is no big loss

Tbf Spence has played about 3 games, one of which they conceded 6 in and another he got sent off in, so a bit wild to suggest he’s been one of their best players.

 

Ben Davies would also be playing if fit.

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2 minutes ago, SteV said:

Tbf Spence has played about 3 games, one of which they conceded 6 in and another he got sent off in, so a bit wild to suggest he’s been one of their best players.

 

Ben Davies would also be playing if fit.

He's definitely played more than 3 games.  Just going by what Spurs fans say tbh and whenever I've seen him he's looked good

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Just now, ianbeany said:

He's definitely played more than 3 games.  Just going by what Spurs fans say tbh and whenever I've seen him he's looked good

Started three league games. Plus a couple of sub appearances. Played against Man Utd in the cup. Doesn’t seem to have played in Europe, which is odd.

 

He’s not even a LB, assuming that’s where he’ll play if he does, so they’ll definitely miss Udogie.

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4 minutes ago, SteV said:

Started three league games. Plus a couple of sub appearances. Played against Man Utd in the cup. Doesn’t seem to have played in Europe, which is odd.

 

He’s not even a LB, assuming that’s where he’ll play if he does, so they’ll definitely miss Udogie.


Hes not registered for Europe IIRC. They thought they were going to peddle him in the summer but it never happened.

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5 minutes ago, Disco said:


Hes not registered for Europe IIRC. They thought they were going to peddle him in the summer but it never happened.

Ah, that would make sense. 
 

Surely Reguilon’s a better bet at LB? Although Ange doesn’t seem to rate either of them. 
 

Hope that judgement is validated whichever one plays.

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Spurs situation sounds almost exactly like us last season 

 

flogging the same players over and over due to injuries, bringing back players too soon and getting reinjured, fatigue from so many games,  fans blaming manager for injury crisis etc 

 

(still think our situation was worse when we had 12 out last Nov/Dec and were playing the same 11 for something like 6 games in a row and hardly a single substitution made in that time)

 

almost feel sorry for them

 

hopefully our lot are absolutely ruthless tomorrow

 

 

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1 hour ago, ianbeany said:

I'd forgot about Bentancur tbh.  But anyway all I was getting at is they will still have a very good team against us.  The way they are going on you'd think they'll be playing a load of kids

 

They have a decent attack available, but to say they are anything more than down to the marrow in defence is disingenuous. Their likely line-up is Solano - Taylor - Huntington - Edgar level stuff.

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7 minutes ago, gdm said:

Dunno about the illnesses but they’ve only got 2 injuries more than us 

Yeah, they aren’t handicapped in an attacking sense. But they’re definitely struggling defensively.

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7 minutes ago, Ginola14 said:

looks like they're without at least 9 compared to our 5 

 

will never get a better time to play them there 

We have 6 if we count Botman. There’s no chance he comes back tomorrow and they have 8 first team players. It’s hardly a huge difference. 
 

They have the keeper & 5 defenders out and we have keeper and 4 defenders out. 

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Conjo said:

 

They have a decent attack available, but to say they are anything more than down to the marrow in defence is disingenuous. Their likely line-up is Solano - Taylor - Huntington - Edgar level stuff.

 

We both have key defenders missing.  Most seem to disagree with me but I dont think their defensive situation is much worse than ours

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3 minutes ago, ianbeany said:

 

We both have key defenders missing.  Most seem to disagree with me but I dont think their defensive situation is much worse than ours

It is. We have a far better backup goalkeeper. They have Schar, Botman, Hall and Burn out so to speak.

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15 minutes ago, gdm said:

We have 6 if we count Botman. There’s no chance he comes back tomorrow and they have 8 first team players. It’s hardly a huge difference. 
 

They have the keeper & 5 defenders out and we have keeper and 4 defenders out. 

 

 

 

 

That's not the vibe I got from Howe's press conference at all...

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