Europa League Match Thread - Tottenham V Lyon

I preferred them when they were Lyons Maid

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Fabs and Zooms

 

Well let's hope that Lyon's made team get licked on Thursday.

 

Last Time We Met...

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24th July 2005, Peace Cup Final, Seoul World Cup Stadium, South Korea.

Olympique Lyonnais 1-3 Tottenham Hotspur

GOALS:
Jérémy Berthod 7' (o.g.)
Robbie Keane 9' & 45'
Hatem Ben Arfa Goal 74' (pen.)

Tottenham Hotspur:

Radek Cerny

Stephen Kelly, Ledley King, Anthony Gardner, Erik Edman (Goren Bunjevcevic, 36)

Wayne Routledge, Teemu Tainio (Pedro Mendes, 45; Dean Marney 88 ), Michael Carrick, Andy Reid

Hossem Mido (Fredi Kanoute, 67), Robbie Keane (Jermain Defoe, 65)​

REPORT:

Robbie Keane's brace gave Tottenham a 3-1 win over Lyon in the final of the Peace Cup in Seoul, South Korea.

Stephen Kelly's deflected cross put Spurs 1-0 up early on and Keane headed home Mido's cross soon after.

Keane met another Mido cross at the far post to make it 3-0 after half-time, before Hatem Ben Arfa pulled one back for the French side from the spot.

Lyon boss Gerard Houllier included Chelsea target Michael Essien in his starting line-up.

Essien came off in the closing stages after an effective display in midfield.

His best moment was a 61st-minute cross for Lamine Diatta that forced a fine save from Spurs keeper Radek Cerny.

Tottenham will receive around £1,150,000 in prize money for winning the pre-season competition.

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy told the club's website: "I'm absolutely delighted for Martin and the team and it's a terrific start to our season.

"It was good to see great team work and our new signings settling in and playing so well."

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A very happy sounding Daniel Levy. Kerching!

 

At the request of Spurf, "bells & whistle productions" present the match thread for our upcoming game against Lyon, in the Europa League.

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Match Preview

Tottenham come into this game, on the back of a ten match unbeaten league run, with the from of Gareth Bale being key to the points gained, Bale is our only league scorer in our previous three league games, scoring goals of individual brilliance to ensure the good run under Villas Boas has continued.

The arrival of Holtby means Tottenham now have more options in midfield, in a creative sense, and his experience in the champions league with FC Schalke, will of course be key if Tottenham wish to progress.

Hugo Lloris, a summer arrival from Lyon will be facing his former club in fine form, having kept nine clean sheets in total and five in the ten match unbeaten run, however his fine form won't be of any surprise to Lyon, where he was a favourite and picked up awards for his performances in french football and the champions league.

With Defoe out injured, the return of Adebayor from the ACON and a warm up appearance against Newcastle, should ensure we still have an attacking threat, with many believing Adebayor offers more of an overall threat in the lone striker role, allowing Bale more freedom to roam and attack centrally.

Lyon FC come into this game sitting second in the french league, six points behind leaders PSG, and have had a dip in form since the new year, allowing them to fall slightly behind in the title race and also defeat in the french cup by third-tier minnows Épinal.

In their previous game against Lllie, they lost 3-1, yet having read the match report it appears they could have lost by a greater margin, yet it was only their second home loss of the season, meaning the return leg in Lyon is going to be a tough game considering their home record.

Their manager speaking after the game

Possibly we're facing Lyon at the right time, with their confidence taking a knock, the fine form of Bale and our defence providing a solid base to pick up points and over the two legs we appear to be slight favourites for this tie.

Did you know:

• Tottenham finished second in Group J behind Serie A outfit Lazio. The north London club took 10 points from its six games.
• Hugo Lloris made 195 appearances for Lyon during his four-year spell at the club before he departed to move to Tottenham in August.
• The north London club has won the UEFA Cup twice - during its inaugural season in 1972 and in 1984.
• Lyon won Group I in impressive fashion - taking 16 points out of a possible 18 - nine more than second-placed Sparta Prague.
• Ex-Spurs midfielder Steed Malbranque has scored twice in 16 appearances since he joined Lyon last summer.
• Bafetimbi Gomis has netted twice in three Europa League games so far this season, and has been linked with a move to a host of Premier League sides.

Back In Time (provided by THFC6061):

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http://www.myfootballfacts.com/index.html

Previous Meeting:

[video=youtube_share;YCqjSIjPCx8]http://youtu.be/YCqjSIjPCx8[/video]

I apologise on behalf of the creator of the above video for his moment of madness in adding music to the highlights so you may wish to press mute....unless "eye of the tiger" is your type of thing!

 

Cheers Boss.

Looking forward to this one, been a while since a top European side has come to the Lane.

Won't be easy but I've mentioned in a previous thread that Lyon aren't the same powerhouse they were 3-4 years ago. They're supposedly without Gourcoff and Briand too which is a bonus for us.

My team:

Friedel
Naughton, Caulker, Vertonghen, Ekotto
Lennon, Livermore, Dembele, Bale
Sigurdsson (needs a start)
Adebayor

Subs: Lloris, Dawson, Walker, Parker, Dempsey, Holtby, Kane

Going for 2-0, Bale and Sigurdsson the scorers.

COYS!

 

Nice one Boss!

 

The merging of the threads did not work quite as well as I had hoped with Boss's work now on page 2. Sorry about that, in hindsight it would have been better just to leave the two threads separate.

 

ha, doesn’t matter! a combined effort

 

I've put a note on the leader page referring posters to your Bells & Whistles on page 2.


Next time I will just leave it alone.

 

Smart move. Boss does all the work (nice info ) but it goes down as your thread.

 

Am not sure if this is possible, but as mod can you edit my post? if you can you could prob just copy all the text from the post I made and paste it to the main page if you wanted to use it as the match thread, it will just appear under your name!

 

I tried that and it didn't work. I think it's to do with the mix of pics, videos, words. If PNP or YV can do it, we will.
I can get some of your words up there, but that would be even more of a dogs breakfast than I have already achieved.

 

I'd expect to see:

Brad
walker, Billy, Jan, Benny
Paker, Dembele
Azza, Sig/Dempsey, Bale
Ade

There's no real need to rest players but AVB has said Brad will start and I can see a couple of others getting rotated in. Hopefully we'll be in a position to rest a few more next week.

 

Looking at that Peace Cup clip, Mido actually looked like a decent player.

 

Honest, its not an issue!......anyway, as SD pointed out, smart move spurf, you sly fox ha ha!

 

Thanks Boss you're a gent.

 

oops double posting (now triple)!

 

I've done something to the OP, is that what we wanted?

 

Superb match thread Spurf