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Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Elfsborg

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  1. PleaseNotPoll

    PleaseNotPoll Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Thursday 30th January 8pm
    Europa League Group Stage
    Tottenham Hotspur Stadium​

    Virtually everyone's injured and Kinsky, Spence and Reguilon aren't registered.
    Pretty sure neither side has any suspensions.

    Lineups for each side's last league game:

    Spurs: Kinsky; Porro, Dragusin, Davies, Gray; Bergvall, Bentancur, Sarr; Kulusevski, Richarlison, Son.
    Subs: Austin, Reguilon, Bissouma, Olusesi, Yang, Ajayi, Moore, Lankshear.
    League form: LDLLLL.

    Elfsborg: Bundagaard; Buhari, Henriksson, Yegbe; Hedlund, Thomasen, Ouma, Kaib; Rapp, Holten, Qasem.
    Subs: Petterson, Hult, Larsson, Baldursson, Zeneli, Aubdullai, Aronsson, Richtner, Ostman.
    League form: WLLLWD. Their season ended in November, so these probably aren't very helpful.

    Ref: Sebastian Gishamer (AUT). VAR: Alan Kijas (AUT).

    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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    Looks like the team picks itself

    Austin, Porro, Davies, Dragusin, Gray, Bentancur, Bergvall, Kulu, Moore, Lankshear and Son, I think thats the fit players with first team experience who are in the Europa squad.
     
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  3. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    Based on this, van de Ven could be in the squad for Thursday.

    That said, if we keep getting him to do what he does here on around 23 seconds by sprinting back and sliding in for a clearance, I wouldn’t be surprised if news of a new hammy injury arises! <laugh>

     
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    Our U21s appear to have a cup game against Braintree tomorrow, then a break until the next match.
    It'll be interesting to see how many of them make the bench, as we the Europa allows 12 subs and we only picked 8 in our last 2 games.
     
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    Do Elfsborg come from Middle-earth?
     
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    PleaseNotPoll Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Tolkien's stuff is based on Norse mythology, so sort of.
     
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    No: from Star Trek TNG
     
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    To even consider playing him in this game would be an act of criminal negligence....so my money is on him starting! <laugh>
     
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    Hopefully we're just bringing him along to get some extra training sessions

    Wouldn't be the first time we've done that with European fixtures
     
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    One win to WUM them ; and in the KO qualifiers bind them.
     
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    Ha! Beat me to it.
     
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    Win this and we get two free Midweeks next month, could be huge for us!
     
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    Hopefully they’ve been a lot more cautious this time. Would be good to be comfortably up toward the end of the game so we can get him a casual run out to get his minutes under his belt.
     
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    Hopefully more cautious than the headline writer was

    Their mistake is forever enshrined in the URL...
     
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    So if they rock up at Craven Cottage instead, do we get awarded a 3-0 win...?
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    Gray over Dragusin and Scarlett on the bench!
     
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    You haven't really got anyone have you.
     
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