Really hope Coulthirst and Bentaleb to start.
Yea I could live with that - gives minutes to those who require it without compromising us come Sunday.Bearing in mind today's news...
...................Friedel
Fredericks...Stewart...Fryers...Rose
............Dombaxe...Holtby
....Lamela...Eriksen...Sigurdsson
..................Soldado
Although presumably if Stewart was going to be in the squad he'd have been mentioned along with Fredericks, Dombaxe and Coulthirst, so perhaps Capoue will have to play. Which may be OK, depending on how likely Vlad is for Liverpool.
Yea I could live with that - gives minutes to those who require it without compromising us come Sunday.
Only questionable inclusion would be Soldado over Defoe but then again, it's another game for him to get up to speed and hopefully can get his confidence up by banging in a few against a pretty weak Anzhi side.
Anyone know if Kane is still injured? Or will he be available for this?
Tottenham provisional squad: Lloris, Friedel, Gomes, Walker, Fredericks, Rose, Naughton, Dawson, Fryers, Sandro, Capoue, Dembele, Paulinho, Lamela, Lennon, Eriksen, Dombaxe, Townsend, Chadli, Sigurdsson, Holtby, Kane, Defoe, Soldado, Coulthirst
Using that:
FriedelTake off Eriksen & Lamela after 60 minutes.
Naughton Capoue Fryers Rose
Sigurdsson Dombaxe
Lamela Sigurdsson Chadli
Kane
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/spurs-vs-anji-team-news-111213/
AVB says Kane is still out injured.
He also says that squad players Laste Dombaxe, Ryan Fredericks, Shaq Coulthirst all drafted into the squad. So I cannot see any other youngsters (such as Stewart or Ball) being available otherwise they would have been mentioned.
So that means that at best we could play Fredericks at RB and Fryers at LB/CB so we'll need two of our first team defenders to start, I would assume Naughton as AVB says Rose is fit (but I assume Rose will start on tyhe bench ?), so we will need to play a first team CB (either Dawson or Capoue as Vertonghen and Kaboul are definitely still injured and Chiriches only available for Liverpool). Dombaxe has played as an emergency CB in the Academy, but doubt that he could do it at this level.
So I'm slightly disappointed that AVB has not chosen to bring in one or two other young defenders, either to start or be on the bench in case Anzhi have given up by half time.
Up front and in midfield we have plenty of options from first team squad players - but it would be ideal to give Coulthirst and Dombaxe some minutes, probably off the bench, to gain experience .