Spurs v West Ham Team
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faymantaray
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The Spurs treatment room is a fucking black hole. Next time we see Capoue or Lennon we'll all have forgotten they play for us..
dk-yid
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EnfieldYiddo
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Will it? Wham are fucking awful.
SteveH
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EnfieldYiddo
Silence
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Guess so.
They seem to be under some strange belief they have absolutely quality defenders. I read a few posts in transfer window that they wouldn't accept £20 million for Winston Reid. Laughable when we got Verts for half that.
I agree, if we don't notch in the first 20-25 minutes this will be a very tough game!
minesadouble
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From BBC:
Just one of the five goals that West Ham have conceded in the Premier League this season has come from open play.
I would love to see an easy, big win, but fear another tense encounter. W Ham will raise their game against us and Hippo is good at organisation if nothing else. A lot will depend on whether we get an early goal. If we get a couple, then their roof could cave in, but that's an optimistic bet.
If Kaboul was fit I think we might have seen Vertonghen at LB again. But our midfield screening means we shouldn't need to worry so much about extra height in defence. The key will be us having a creative enough front-4 to break down W Ham in open play, if necessary via a bench job over 90 mins. So I think it's Soldado to start and then Defoe from 60-70 mins. It's Eriksen to start and Holtby when Eriksen tires. It's Townsend and Siggi with Lamela and Chadli ready (and soon I'd like to see Lamela given 15 minutes as a proper 10).
Some time I'd also like to see us try 20 minutes at the end with a version of 4-3-1-2 with both Soldado and Defoe up front and Eriksen behind them. The midfield three needs Sandro (Capoue) brought on as a specialist holder, plus any two of Paulinho, Dembele, Holtby, Siggi, Lamela, depending on circumstance, subs, etc. That team would be narrower but would have more chance of scoring goals down the middle channels.
I also agree with other posters who say we need to play some of each game with natural width, ie. playing left footers on the left and right footers on the right. When Bale and Lennon used to swap sides for 10-15 minutes mid-half it used to present opposition based on organisation with a new set of problems.
Just one of the five goals that West Ham have conceded in the Premier League this season has come from open play.
I would love to see an easy, big win, but fear another tense encounter. W Ham will raise their game against us and Hippo is good at organisation if nothing else. A lot will depend on whether we get an early goal. If we get a couple, then their roof could cave in, but that's an optimistic bet.
If Kaboul was fit I think we might have seen Vertonghen at LB again. But our midfield screening means we shouldn't need to worry so much about extra height in defence. The key will be us having a creative enough front-4 to break down W Ham in open play, if necessary via a bench job over 90 mins. So I think it's Soldado to start and then Defoe from 60-70 mins. It's Eriksen to start and Holtby when Eriksen tires. It's Townsend and Siggi with Lamela and Chadli ready (and soon I'd like to see Lamela given 15 minutes as a proper 10).
Some time I'd also like to see us try 20 minutes at the end with a version of 4-3-1-2 with both Soldado and Defoe up front and Eriksen behind them. The midfield three needs Sandro (Capoue) brought on as a specialist holder, plus any two of Paulinho, Dembele, Holtby, Siggi, Lamela, depending on circumstance, subs, etc. That team would be narrower but would have more chance of scoring goals down the middle channels.
I also agree with other posters who say we need to play some of each game with natural width, ie. playing left footers on the left and right footers on the right. When Bale and Lennon used to swap sides for 10-15 minutes mid-half it used to present opposition based on organisation with a new set of problems.
Curtis Peterson
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They're definitely going to pack it in, especially with it at WHL. I still expect some goals from us though. Lloris; Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Naughton; Paulinho, Dembele, Sigurdsson, Eriksen, Lamela; Soldado is what I'd like to see. Townsend will probably get the start though, will probably have space to shoot though, with West Ham playing 8 in the box at all times.
Kingstheman
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West Ham have been on the blower and London buses are being rapidly deployed.
markieboy
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I really like Siggy playing on the left but ONLY when Rose is playing.
Danny is brilliant at getting up the left to overlap allowing Siggy to move inside.
However Naughton doesn't really drive that far past the half way line and Siggy can be a bit of a pushover on his own.
So for me it has to be Chadli and Naughton.
Nacer is big and strong and he has recently shown that he too can also get a few goals coming in from the left.
Danny is brilliant at getting up the left to overlap allowing Siggy to move inside.
However Naughton doesn't really drive that far past the half way line and Siggy can be a bit of a pushover on his own.
So for me it has to be Chadli and Naughton.
Nacer is big and strong and he has recently shown that he too can also get a few goals coming in from the left.
EnfieldYiddo
Silence
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Yeah I can see fat Sam packing 11 men behind the ball, the key will be an early goal to draw them out
Kingstheman
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Not just the buses - but also the trains - will be parked.
CornerPinDreamer
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This is a perfect time to try the anti "controlled parking zone" formation:
Soldado
Eriksen - Holtby - Townsend/Lamela
and some other players behind the front four
Soldado
Eriksen - Holtby - Townsend/Lamela
and some other players behind the front four
alfiespurs
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This is going to be a tough against the pikeys ...feeling a wee bit nervous already . CoYS
SteveH
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See what i was going on about grrr
EnfieldYiddo
Silence
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I hold my hands up, was totally complacent but on paper, it all looked like a routine win.
Foolish and naive me.
Kudos Steve, you saw it coming.
