Tottenham Vs Man United: Match Thread

[prawnsandwich]

Spurs 2-1 is 9/1
Man U 2-1 is 8/1

with sky bet

You can get 10s Spurs win 2-1. I think 9-4 a Spurs win is very generous. However wait until the teams are announced.
http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/tottenham-v-man-utd/winner

If we play 4-5-1 we will lose. If we play 4-4-2 we will win.

 

[bern]

Manure are in good diving form.

 

[shelfboy68]

12:00 PM kick-off on a Sunday pretty much guarantees a flat atmosphere. Most people will be stone cold sober!

I suspect United will cut through our midfield and defence like a hot knife through butter. There's no steel to our team whatsoever. Even if we manage to get a goal (and there's every chance of that), we'll just sit back and collapse like a dizzy fat man on ice.

Going to guess 4-2 to United. We'll create chances, but they'll create a lot more.

Its about time we beat this lot at home but as you say we are far too easily opened up allowing the game to be too open which is never good,plus we have rode our luck for a while now it has to end soon.

 

[prawnsandwich]

Man Utd have 2 strikers and in their midfield they have the 3nd highest all time EPL scorer. Lawrenson calls the system 1-4-6!
Also on Football Focus they say Chelsea play virtually the same team every game with "low intensity training" and Lawro makes the extremely correct statement that most players hate training.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Wouldn't the knife melt first?

It depends what metal the knife is made of.

 

[riggi]

I'll be there. Ko time is shite though.

 

[Spurger King]

It depends what metal the knife is made of.

I fear this is straying ever so slightly off topic.

 

[prawnsandwich]

Its about time we beat this lot at home but as you say we are far too easily opened up allowing the game to be too open which is never good,plus we have rode our luck for a while now it has to end soon.

http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/manchester-united/2015/3/

Soton were the best team and they scrambled a draw against Villa in their last 4 games but Utd are on a pretty incredible run. Let's not forget they were knocked out of the LC and have no Euro games.

 

[ajspurs]

2 teams who have been riding their luck a bit but United seem to be getting a bit better. Despite that I still don't think they're that great a team nor do they play good football, problem is neither do we really. The thing with United is that they can play shit but they only need to rely on a few chances. Eriksen's distance shooting and Kane's hard work has gotten us our points as of late.

The problem with us is that we don't have the ability to get the ball in the right positions enough or to really take the game to the opposition. When watching us against Leicester, despite us being shit I was stil thinking fuck me if we can actually string some stuff together we could get more than a few goals but we just couldn't do it.

 

[StartingPrice]

Interesting to note that LvG/United are making a big thing of how little time they have for preparation between the Newcastle game and their visit to the Lane. But omitting to mention that we have exactly the same gap between the Leicester game and their visit. Especially given we recently played 2 games in 3 days where for each one we had a day less preparation than our opponents - but no-one, either at the club or among the fans, thought to make a big thing of it.

 

[shelfboy68]

http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/manchester-united/2015/3/

Soton were the best team and they scrambled a draw against Villa in their last 4 games but Utd are on a pretty incredible run. Let's not forget they were knocked out of the LC and have no Euro games.

Of course having no euro football helps it keeps you fresher and sharper just look at Liverpool last season for evidence of that.
Our concern is how easy it is to play against us
We are opened up far too easy and only great keeping and luck has seen us rise up the table rather than drop into below mid table.
But our luck will run out sooner rather than later and while it would give me great pleasure in beating these two teams, i think we will fall quite a way short.

 

[nightgoat]

5!

i'm so confident of doing them if we put out the right team. newcastle should've had a penalty early on yesterday, might've been a totally different game then.

Gouffran? Tripped himself up.

 

[arunspurs]

Just watched Newcastle V United MOTD highlights. From what I saw, Newcastle did have lot of good chances but were very wasteful & didn't finish few easy chances.

I think this United team will give chances. If we take them we can very well match them.

 

[spurslenny]

We are doing well to keep this at 0-0 so far.

 

[hughy]

We are doing well to keep this at 0-0 so far.

This forum needs a 'boring' rating.

 

[WiganSpur]

Jesus some people with a serious hard on for Man Utd here.

I know they have improved lately but let's not forget that the team we beat yesterday, whilst being really shit, put 5 past Utd.

They beat Newcastle convincingly, so did we, only we kept a clean sheet.

They are not the invincible Utd of old, we can do them. Not saying we will as thats the thing with football, but they aren't anything to be afraid of IMO.

Chelsea on the other hand....:dead:

I take your point, but I think most people's concern is that Man Utd don't have piss poor strikers.

If we're too open again and give a host of chances to the likes of Rooney, RVP and Falcao then we'll get destroyed. If we play it smart however like we did at the Emirates then we can get a result.

 

[spursbri111]

Dembele has to play and stick to Rooney like glue. We need a player with strength and pace and ability on the ball to mark Rooney and none of our others have all those attributes.
Their whole system reminds me of Chelsea's play when mata would make dummy runs into the box and drag defenders away or just run in late, unmarked, when the defence had already been distracted by hazard, eto or Torres. This is the threat of Rooney playing in midfield and mata in a sort if free role behind the forwards. We need to be defensive to the extent that we have numbers available, which is why I would play 442 as someone else suggested. Two banks of four sat deeper and a front two who can hold the ball up and allow for players to join the counter attack.

if were gonna man mark rooney would nt stambouli or capoue be the man for that job?if were gonna win we need to outscore them which means attacking them which is a massive gamble. both teams to score is free money

 

[CockFlavour]

Rainy, high-intensive 90 minutes on a piss poor pitch on a friday in Leicester - there will be some tired legs out there tomorrow.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Van Gaals a good manager but in essence he is trying some Dutch version of the Ardiles managerial playbook.. they are vulnerable to width, the back three look like they don;t talk to each other, it's astonishing how top heavy they are



suspect it will be which team is the least crap on the day.. i'm putting money on us to snatch a victory

I said to my United supporter father in law this morning that United look like us in the Ardilles days.
Call me a glutton for punishment but i liked those days at times.

 

[dondo]

As others have said I would start dembele for his strength in the middle and Lennon for his pace and width.
Keep it tight at the back and hit them on the counter with pace and test their shaky back 3.
3-2 to us