Kingstheman
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I'd take a tight 1 0 from a crap set piece and another week of people criticising our 'lack of creativity'.
The Lawro Thread
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fatpiranha
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Has 0-0 written all over it.
robbiedee
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They went to school together...Sammy and Markie - what a pair, always up to mischief...
camaj
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I know this is Lawro but Merson on skysports.com wrote
Tottenham v Chelsea
Out of these two teams, Tottenham have impressed me most this season. They look a really good, solid team and were outstanding against Villa in the cup with their squad players in the line-up which shows how much depth they have.
Plus, against Cardiff last week they won 1-0 but it was the most one-sided matches I have seen in the history of football, and they were superb against Norwich, so I make them favourites for this game against Chelsea.
Chelsea, though, are really stuttering.
When Jose Mourinho was at Chelsea before he came out with the quote 'park the bus', but he parked the bus at Man United and they have lost to Everton and home to Basel in the Champions League.
You'd have been surprised if Mourinho had lost two of his first 20 games, let alone two of his first five or six, and the Juan Mata situation is still a massive talking point.
For me, Mata should be in the team as he is one of Chelsea's best players but I think it was clever of Mourinho to leave him out completely against Fulham because if he was on the bench the fans would have been singing his name and there would have been uproar.
PAUL PREDICTS: 2-1
Tottenham v Chelsea
Out of these two teams, Tottenham have impressed me most this season. They look a really good, solid team and were outstanding against Villa in the cup with their squad players in the line-up which shows how much depth they have.
Plus, against Cardiff last week they won 1-0 but it was the most one-sided matches I have seen in the history of football, and they were superb against Norwich, so I make them favourites for this game against Chelsea.
Chelsea, though, are really stuttering.
When Jose Mourinho was at Chelsea before he came out with the quote 'park the bus', but he parked the bus at Man United and they have lost to Everton and home to Basel in the Champions League.
You'd have been surprised if Mourinho had lost two of his first 20 games, let alone two of his first five or six, and the Juan Mata situation is still a massive talking point.
For me, Mata should be in the team as he is one of Chelsea's best players but I think it was clever of Mourinho to leave him out completely against Fulham because if he was on the bench the fans would have been singing his name and there would have been uproar.
PAUL PREDICTS: 2-1
ExpatFan
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Sounds about right to me:
Tottenham v West Ham
The decisions went against West Ham in their defeat at Hull last weekend but more worrying for their manager Sam Allardyce is that his side cannot buy a goal at the moment.
Spurs had a very good first half in their draw with Chelsea. The second half was not quite so good but, against the top teams, that is the way it is going to be.
Allardyce will make things as difficult as he can for Spurs but, with all the different players they have got, Tottenham can attack in all sorts of different ways.
That is the key for them - when they had Gareth Bale, they had a superstar who could create a wonder goal for himself or someone else but these days, their goals come from everywhere.
West Ham will pack their team with strong defensive-minded players but Spurs can pose them problems all over the place and I only see one outcome.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Tottenham v West Ham
The decisions went against West Ham in their defeat at Hull last weekend but more worrying for their manager Sam Allardyce is that his side cannot buy a goal at the moment.
Spurs had a very good first half in their draw with Chelsea. The second half was not quite so good but, against the top teams, that is the way it is going to be.
Allardyce will make things as difficult as he can for Spurs but, with all the different players they have got, Tottenham can attack in all sorts of different ways.
That is the key for them - when they had Gareth Bale, they had a superstar who could create a wonder goal for himself or someone else but these days, their goals come from everywhere.
West Ham will pack their team with strong defensive-minded players but Spurs can pose them problems all over the place and I only see one outcome.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
DiscoD1882
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Obligatory wanker remark. Just for predicting a win and being complimentary.
DiscoD1882
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Palin is a legend!
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Montasura
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Right then, internationals are over and the important stuff begins again this weekend. This is what everyone's favourite pundit has to say...
Aston Villa v Tottenham (16:00 BST)
I know Tottenham went to Villa Park and won 4-0 in the Capital One Cup in September, but this will be a completely different game.
Christian Benteke will be back up front for Aston Villa after making a faster-than-expected recovery from his injury, and that will clearly be a big boost for them.
Villa will have a point to prove after that defeat while we must wait and see whether Spurs have been unhinged a bit by their shock home defeat by West Ham.
That was not only their worst result of the season so far but, within a few hours, Andre Villas-Boas saw all his players disappear to play international football. He will not have had much of a chance to work with them on what went wrong.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Aston Villa v Tottenham (16:00 BST)
I know Tottenham went to Villa Park and won 4-0 in the Capital One Cup in September, but this will be a completely different game.
Christian Benteke will be back up front for Aston Villa after making a faster-than-expected recovery from his injury, and that will clearly be a big boost for them.
Villa will have a point to prove after that defeat while we must wait and see whether Spurs have been unhinged a bit by their shock home defeat by West Ham.
That was not only their worst result of the season so far but, within a few hours, Andre Villas-Boas saw all his players disappear to play international football. He will not have had much of a chance to work with them on what went wrong.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Sp3akerboxxx
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Villa are shit and massively overrated again. They've conceded in each of their last 14 home premier league games.
Montasura
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Whilst beating Arsenal and Man City. A win will also move them above us in the table.
Obviously I'm not defending them and I do think we will beat them, but West Ham should have taught us not to take anything for granted yet. And yes they have conceded, but their goal difference is still the same as ours. They've certainly proved they are more capable of scoring than us at the moment and it looks like Benteke is back again.
I hope and believe we will win but I think Lawro's prediction is fair enough this time around.
mattyspurs
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Agree with you. I'm quite nervous about this game. I really hope Benteke is not fit. It will be interesting to see how we bounce back from the Spammers result
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