FA Cup Thread

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As much as it'd be nice to get a FA Cup run 4 competing for 4 competitions at this stage is a lot for us so I wouldn't mind Pochettino sending out a second string tomorrow. Infact it might be an idea to include a few youngsters, I think that would help the crowd too.
I'd like to see:
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Yedlin, Dier, Vertonghen, Davies
Stambouli, Winks
Lennon, Onomah, Townsend
Soldado

Is Yedlin eligible to play? Don't ask me where I think I've read it (probably dreamt it <laugh>) but pretty sure I've read a new signing can't play in a replay, even if they've not played in the cup for another side.

If he has the all clear then it'd be great to see him for the first time but I've just got something in the back of my head saying he can't play (the voices!).

Only change I'd want to make to your XI is giving Jan a rest, he's looking back to his best and I'd rather him be saved for the League and Capital Semi's and use either Vlad/ Kaboul/ Fazio alongside Dier.
 
Is Yedlin eligible to play? Don't ask me where I think I've read it (probably dreamt it <laugh>) but pretty sure I've read a new signing can't play in a replay, even if they've not played in the cup for another side.

If he has the all clear then it'd be great to see him for the first time but I've just got something in the back of my head saying he can't play (the voices!).

Only change I'd want to make to your XI is giving Jan a rest, he's looking back to his best and I'd rather him be saved for the League and Capital Semi's and use either Vlad/ Kaboul/ Fazio alongside Dier.

I think you're right, I assumed Yedlin signed with us on the 1st of January but I've just checked and it wasn't announced until the 7th so maybe it wasn't finalised in time.
 
Didn't we already own Yedlin?
Not sure how it would work, but I don't expect him to be involved.
 
This is a game both teams might be wiser to lose.

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Chiriches Dier Kaboul Davies
Paulinho Stambouli
Lennon Soldado Dembele
Ade

I'd like to see Soldado in the CAM role. Not to say I will. As long as we're playing twice a week, we need subs for everyone, especially Eriksen, but also Fazio and Vertonghen. I haven't been convinced by either Lamela or Chadli in the the CAM role. Of course, if we do play this team, it will be summed up as a 4-4-2 and might well play that way, which also might not be a bad idea.
 
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This is a game both teams might be wiser to lose.

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Chiriches Dier Kaboul Davies
Paulinho Stambouli
Lennon Soldado Dembele
Ade

I'd like to see Soldado in the CAM role. Not to say I will. As long as we're playing twice a week, we need subs for everyone, especially Eriksen, but also Fazio and Vertonghen. I haven't been convinced by either Lamela or Chadli in the the CAM role. Of course, if we do play this team, it will be summed up as a 4-4-2 and might well play that way, which also might not be a bad idea.
I really don't expect to see Ade in a Spurs shirt again.
 
sky are saying defoe will sign for sunderland tomorrow and will be able to play against us on sunday,,,ain't we playing against them on saturday?
 
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Chiriches Kaboul(c) Vertonghen Davies
Capoue Stambouli
Townsend Paulinho Rose
Soldado

Lloris, Dier, Naughton, Chadli, Dembele, Onomah, Kane

Rose at LW?! Looks like it.
 
Rose has gone there and back again, didn't he start off as a winger? I'm sure when he made his debut in THAT game against Arsenal he played ahead of Bale. Could be wrong though.
 
Looks like Pochettino thinks it may be wiser to lose this one as well. Well, not very daring, but it's hard to dare when you're tired, and the team has looked very weary lately.

It really is a poser where the goals are coming from. To be fair, Soldado's scoring record in the cups is decent, and Paulinho's main virtue with Spurs has been an ability to score from time to time.

And, of course, Rose scored a cracker the game before last.

Rose did start as a winger, and he subbed as a winger at some point this year as well. I wonder why he became a left back, actually. Every time I've seen him, I've thought, dangerous going forward, dodgy defending.
 
Just because we seem to want to shift them, I don't know why they wouldn't play in a game we're clearly not desperate to win. I understand Adebayor and Pochettino have artistic differences, but I don't get why Lennon wouldn't play. I don't know of any indication he and Pochettino don't get along, and he's been good, for the most part, when he has played this year.
 
Looks like Pochettino thinks it may be wiser to lose this one as well. Well, not very daring, but it's hard to dare when you're tired, and the team has looked very weary lately.

It really is a poser where the goals are coming from. To be fair, Soldado's scoring record in the cups is decent, and Paulinho's main virtue with Spurs has been an ability to score from time to time.

And, of course, Rose scored a cracker the game before last.

Rose did start as a winger, and he subbed as a winger at some point this year as well. I wonder why he became a left back, actually. Every time I've seen him, I've thought, dangerous going forward, dodgy defending.

You might think that when his job is to be a defender but my memories of him as a winger tell me why he was moved to fullback. For me he's not quite one thing or another. Probably slightly better as a LB. For 1m or whatever we paid for him, though, I think he's not a bad back-up LB. His tenacity is probably his biggest strength as a defender but also the cause of his greatest weakness (he does lose it a bit).
 
Just because we seem to want to shift them, I don't know why they wouldn't play in a game we're clearly not desperate to win. I understand Adebayor and Pochettino have artistic differences, but I don't get why Lennon wouldn't play. I don't know of any indication he and Pochettino don't get along, and he's been good, for the most part, when he has played this year.
I always assume it's to protect from injury.