Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Swansea City

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Saturday 3rd December 3pm
Premier League
White Hart Lane​

Our unbeaten streak in the league is over and we're out of the Champions League and the League Cup.
It's fair to say that we're not on the best run of late, picking up only one win in the last ten games.
Our season's gone from a bright start to a bit of a stagger and our squad's confidence must be a little low.
We need a big performance and a result from this one.

Our opponents haven't had the best of times either, recently.
The decision to give Francesco Guidolin another chance this season backfired, resulting in a poor start.
His removal early on in October didn't seem to help much either, as Bob Bradley struggled with the job.
A roller coaster win against Palace last weekend might be their turning point, though.
Leading 3-1, trailing 4-3 in injury time and winning 5-4? They'll want to build on that.

We entered this fixture in very different circumstances last season.
We'd won five on the bounce in the league and were pushing on near the top of the league.
That wasn't reflected by the early running as we looked a little disjointed and the visitors took the lead.
A deflected shot dropped to Paloschi in the box and he finished well.

That seemed to spark the side into life and the pressure was virtually one way from then on.
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski frustrated us with a superb display, holding their lead.
The introduction of Nacer Chadli changed that and he leveled from a corner.
Walker's mishit shot was turned in at the back post, then Danny Rose took us ahead shortly after that.
All three goals came from scrambled corners.

Our visit to the Liberty wasn't quite as fruitful, as we recovered from a poor start to the campaign.
We were on another unbeaten run and managed to save that, but couldn't take all three points.
Ayew put the hosts ahead early, before Eriksen scored a superb free-kick.
Harry Kane put through his own net just afterward that, but the Dane rescued a point with another set-piece.



No suspensions for this one, as Danny Rose returns from his.
Jan Vertonghen is one caution away from one, though.
Ben Davies and Erik Lamela are still out, but Toby Alderweireld could return, having trained this week.
Swansea have no suspensions and only Ki out injured.

Lineups for each side's last league game:

Spurs: Lloris; Walker, Dier, Vertonghen, Wimmer; Wanyama, Dembele; Eriksen, Alli, Son; Kane.
Subs: Vorm, Trippier, Carter-Vickers, Winks, Onomah, N'Koudou, Janssen.
League form: DDDDWL.

Swans: Fabianski; Naughton, Fernandez, Amat, Taylor; Cork, Fulton, Fer; Barrow, Sigurdsson, Routledge.
Subs: Nordfeldt, van der Hoorn, Rangel, Dyer, Montero, Llorente, McBurnie.
League form: LDLLDW.

Referee: Jonathan Moss.

Any changes needed for this, following our first league loss?
If Alderweireld returns, then does Dier miss out or should he return to the midfield?
Do we need to change anything in attack or was our first half performance enough?

Our twitter feed looks confident, anyway:

 

Wayne Routledge .

 

Paul Stewart went to Rhyl once

Catherine Zeta Jones

 

Wayne Routledge is second only to Paul Stewart

...in terms of the number of clubs he played for, not the other thing.

 

El Plastico tomorrow means we have a chance of closing the gap to the top.
The Poool could win, and the Spanners do not have another London cup final
til May, so similar for the Goons.

 

Bob Bradley says that Sigurdsson's inside knowledge of Spurs can help Swansea.

...has somebody explained to Bob Bradley that Gylfi's inside knowledge of Spurs would have been useful three years ago, but is now utterly redundant?

 

Still no Alderweireld. ****.
Janssen gone from the bench and we've got two centre-halves there, instead. What's that about?

 

Hoping to see rather more of GKN today - but that is a generally negative bench should we need a more potent forward line late on. Its not as if we have lacked that in recent weeks!!!

 

How's that not a red?

 

****ing ridiculous - straight red any day!!
Just glad to see Walker is ok (ish)

 

Commentators saying - "well it wasn't deliberate" as if that makes afucking diffrence with a challenge as reckless as that.
Its an old joke saying but he really could have taken his eye out with that one!

 

Son having another underwhelming outing.....

 

Underwhelming would be high praise for that opening half hour.

 

That'll do.

Thanks Agent Naughton.

 

We must be getting the last decade's worth of penalties this season. Still, thank **** for them or we'd be in the relegation places.

 

1-0 Kane

 

Until..... lol

 

2-0 Son