Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Hoffenheim

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Thursday 23rd January 5.45pm
Europa League Group Stage
Rhein-Neckar-Arena​

Romero, Vicario, van de Ven, Udogie, Werner and Odobert are still injured.
Solanke, Johnson, Sarr and Bissouma are also out, while Spence, Reguilon and Kinsky are registered.
Forster and Bentancur are supposedly back in contention. Neither side has any suspensions.

Lineups for each side's last league game:

Spurs: Kinsky; Gray, Dragusin, Davies; Porro, Sarr, Bergvall, Spence; Kulusevski, Maddison; Son.
Subs: Austin, Hardy, Reguilon, Olusesi, Yang, Ajayi, Moore, Richarlison, Lankshear.
League form: LLDLLL.

Hoffenheim: Baumann; Gendrey, Chaves, Akpoguma, Prass; Stach, Bischof; Hlozek, Kramaric, Moerstedt; Yardimci.
Subs: Philipp, Hranac, Nsoki, Juarsek, Geiger, Becker, Orban, Tabakovic, Ntusu.
League form: DDLLLW.

Ref: Morten Krogh (DEN). VAR: Pol van Boekel, again. (NED)

TV: TNT Sports.

How would you like to line up for this one and how do you think we actually will line up?

 

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Unless football my understanding is wrong and you can’t make changes yet, I don’t get why we haven’t registered reguillon, Spence and Kinsky?

With the amount of injuries we have, all 3 can come in for the last two group games then we can sort it out properly before the knockouts start.

 

You can't make changes until the group stage ends, IIRC.

 

I can’t believe Football Manager would lie to me!

 

Think I’d go with:

Lord
Help, Us, As, We
Are, ****ed, Up
Beyond, All, Recognition

 

I see you’ve put “****ed” as our CM. Which is quite apt, considering the injuries to Biss and Pape.

 

I’d imagine it’ll be:

Forster
Porro, Dragusin, Davies, Gray
Bergvall, Bentancur, Maddison
Kulu, Richarlison, Son

And he won’t make a sub because our academy doesn’t exist… apparently.

 

Mikey should start over Son, for me.

Sonny needs to spend a bit of time pulling himself together. The man is a wreck.

 

Agreed, although I'd be amazed if he did.

 

Just thought I'd point out the early kick-off time, in case anyone missed it. 5.45pm. Don't tune in late and miss the misery.

 

Unfortunately (?) I don't finish work until 6 tomorrow so will probably miss the first half.....

Could record it I suppose and wallow in the misery later though...

 

Takes a special kind of masochist to wanna do that.

 

...years of training.

 

I think Moore will start, but ahead of Richarlison with Sonny through the middle again.

 

I'm livid.

I scheduled a meeting with a client in the States for 8pm UK time so that I'd have no choice but to miss the game, then the other day noticed the KO time

Anyone need their lawn mowing at around 6pm tonight?

 

You can do mine

 

Yeah I won’t be able to watch the game tonight, probably have the radio on

Hoffenheim are 15th in the German league. I expect Spurs to win tonight

 

So your job is international lawn mower-er? Is that a kind of "Red Adair" troubleshooter thing for gardens? Seems a long way to go for a lawn.