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International Break - But not for our Players !

Spursidol

Spursidol

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Thought it worthwhile reminding ourselves just how mamy players will be playing 2 matches (mostly) in the international 'break' sometimes with lengthy travelling and so may come back knackered rather than rested.

England
Kyle Walker, Scott Parker and Jermain Defoe and Steven Caulker are eligible to play for England who play two World Cup games in Group H, away to San Marino on Friday and then travel to play Montenegro next Tuesday.

Aaron Lennon and Michael Dawson pullled out so as to recover from injury in the break.

The England u 21 squad includes Andros Townsend, Danny Rose, Adam Smith (all these 4 are on loan) and Tom Carroll who play Romania and Austria at home.

Belgium
Jan Vertonghen and Mousa Dembele are in the squad to play Macedonia in Group A. They travel to Macedonia for Friday’s game and then play the return fixture on Tuesday in Brussels.

Wales
Gareth Bale plays against Scotland at Hamden Park in Group A

Scotland
Jordan Archer (on loan) has been called up for the Scottish under 21's

France
Hugo Lloris will travel to play against Georgia, and then back to Paris to play Spain in Group I, on Friday and Tuesday respectively.

Iceland
Gylfi Sigurdsson travels to play in Slovenia on Friday in Group E, but that's his only match

USA
Clint Dempsey is in the US squad to play Costa Rica in Colorado on Friday and then flies to Mexico for that game on Tuesday - so likely to be back fairly fatigued frrom the flights on Thursday/Friday.

Cameroon and Togo
Benoit Assou-Ekotto plays at home against Emanuel Adebayor on Saturday - but that's their only match. Wonder when they get back to Spurs ?

Edit - Germany u21's
Lewis Holtby travels to Israel to play one match

So the players not away with their country is a fairly short list of Brad Freidal, William Gallas, Jake Livermore, Kyle Naughton and Tom Huddlestone plus the injured Younis Kaboul, Sandro, Aaron Lennon and Michael Dawson.

With only 5 first team players in training (and hopefully joined by some of the recovering injured) I hope that they train with the develop0ment group not out on loan so as to better integrate the two squads - we might benefit from a couple of the youngsters staying with the first team.

But otherwise, our first team is getting much less rest than most fans might think !

Its likely that AVB will have most of the players (not Dempsey for example) for maybe 2 days to prepare for the Swansea match.
 
Spurs1960

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Spursidol said:
Thought it worthwhile reminding ourselves just how mamy players will be playing 2 matches (mostly) in the international 'break' sometimes with lengthy travelling and so may come back knackered rather than rested.

England
Kyle Walker, Scott Parker and Jermain Defoe and Steven Caulker are eligible to play for England who play two World Cup games in Group H, away to San Marino on Friday and then travel to play Montenegro next Tuesday.

Aaron Lennon and Michael Dawson pullled out so as to recover from injury in the break.

The England u 21 squad includes Andros Townsend, Danny Rose, Adam Smith (all these 4 are on loan) and Tom Carroll who play Romania and Austria at home.

Belgium
Jan Vertonghen and Mousa Dembele are in the squad to play Macedonia in Group A. They travel to Macedonia for Friday’s game and then play the return fixture on Tuesday in Brussels.

Wales
Gareth Bale plays against Scotland at Hamden Park in Group A

Scotland
Jordan Archer (on loan) has been called up for the Scottish under 21's

France
Hugo Lloris will travel to play against Georgia, and then back to Paris to play Spain in Group I, on Friday and Tuesday respectively.

Iceland
Gylfi Sigurdsson travels to play in Slovenia on Friday in Group E, but that's his only match

USA
Clint Dempsey is in the US squad to play Costa Rica in Colorado on Friday and then flies to Mexico for that game on Tuesday - so likely to be back fairly fatigued frrom the flights on Thursday/Friday.

Cameroon and Togo
Benoit Assou-Ekotto plays at home against Emanuel Adebayor on Saturday - but that's their only match. Wonder when they get back to Spurs ?


So the players not away with their country is a fairly short list of Brad Freidal, William Gallas, Jake Livermore, Lewis Holtby and Tom Huddlestone plus the injured Younis Kaboul, Sandro, Aaron Lennon and Michael Dawson.

With only 5 first team players in training (and hopefully joined by some of the recovering injured) I hope that they train with the develop0ment group not out on loan so as to better integrate the two squads - we might benefit from a couple of the youngsters staying with the first team.

But otherwise, our first team is getting much less rest than most fans might think !

Its likely that AVB will have most of the players (not Dempsey for example) for maybe 2 days to prepare for the Swansea match.
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What's Kyle Naughton doing then?
 
matthew.absurdum

matthew.absurdum

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Holtby Also with Germany U-21

anyway, the importance of the break is about momentum of the team, not merely a physical break
 
Syn_13

Syn_13

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My main concern is Dembele and Vertonghen. Those 2 along with Bale have really been our key players in the last couple of months. Bale only has one game by the looks of it but I hope Moussa and Jan don't get pushed too much for Belgium.
 
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My main concern is if De
Syn_13 said:
My main concern is Dembele and Vertonghen. Those 2 along with Bale have really been our key players in the last couple of months. Bale only has one game by the looks of it but I hope Moussa and Jan don't get pushed too much for Belgium.
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My main concern is that Dempsey's coming back.:eek:
 
kr1978

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Wales have also got a home game on the Tuesday so that's 2 games for bale as well
 
kr1978

kr1978

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Just keep that ****charlie adam away from bale in the Wales Scotland game-just checked and he is in the Scotland squad
 
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StanSpur

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To be honest none of the travel is that bad with the exception of Dempsey so i can't see it being an issue for most players. The england boys will probably only warm the benches so not to stressed there the Belgium lads should play as will Bale but none of those games will be played at the tempo of the prem so they are not likely to run themselves into the ground. It is not a rest week physically but it is mentally as they will get away from the group, forget about liverpool, inter and fulham and come back 10 days later with that out of their minds. Phsically these guys should be able to cope with playing 2 games a week at any level, international football is not as physically strenuous as playing in England or Spain or Germany in my opinion - mentally during tournaments and key qualification games maybe but....... Bale is playing against Scotland FFS its more of a training match for him.
 
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chinaman

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Take a dive and get sent off after 5 minutes, Gareth, and save yourself from being named in the coming internationals.
 
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