Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Brentford

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Saturday 6th December 3pm
Premier League
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium​

Dragusin, Kulusevski, Maddison, Bissouma and Solanke are all long-term injured.
Neither side has any suspensions.

Lineups for each side's last league game:

Spurs: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Danso, Udogie; Bergvall, Bentancur, Sarr; Kudus, Kolo Muani, Johnson.
Subs: Kinsky, Spence, van de Ven, Palhinha, Gray, Simons, Odobert, Tel, Richarlison.
League form: WLDLLD.

Brentford: Kelleher; Kayode, Ajer, Pinnock, van den Berg, Henry; Yarmoliuk, Janelt, Jensen; Ouattara, Schade.
Subs: Valdimarsson, Collins, Arthur, Lewis-Potter, Onyeka, Henderson, Damsgaard, Donovan, Thiago.
League form: WLWLWL.

Ref: Robert Jones. VAR: Timothy Wood.

TV: Not televised in the UK.

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

 

Training video to see if anyone can see anything interesting:

Probably not though, eh?

 

A certain young man training with the big boys (as I was hoping?)

 

Live streams


Basic :

https://istreameast.net/fixture/Tottenham Hotspur-vs-Brentford

 

This will be a test to see if the Newcastle result was either an example of the team having the mentality to turn things around, or if the ref pissed off the players that much they got a result out of spite alone

 

Let’s see if he puts all our creativity on the bench or lives a little and goes for it

 

Looks like it’s

Vic
Porro Romero VdV Spence
Gray Bentancur
Kudus Xavi
Richy RKM

The good: Gray and Xavi getting a start

The bad: Don’t like the box formation without natural LB (tbf it could be 433 with Richy or RKM off the left).

 

Spence usually does well there though and Udogie has been having a torrid time of late...

 

We’ll see. I think if you’re going to play such a narrow formation, or even a 433/4231 that naturally has a bit more width but with someone like Richy or RKM on the left, you need a more natural left sided player to push up on the left and open the pitch. Way too easy for the defence to shut down space otherwise.

 

Surprised to see Bentancur starting. He's played a lot of starting minutes of late and has hardly impressed.
Xavi getting a game is a positive move at least.

But we are the Forrest Gump box of chocolates, so heaven knows what version we will get today!

Just hoping that my favourite young keeper doesn't show us what we could have had...

 

Completely off topic(*) but the Forrest quote always annoyed me. If you look at the picture you know *exactly* what chocolate you are going to get. To that extent, life is *nothing* like a box of chocolates. Life is more like Spurs.

* unless referring to the hazelnut in every bite version

 

Pedant!

 

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BBC:


If ever Thomas Frank needed a win...

• No Premier League win since 26 October.
• No Premier League home win since 16 August.
• Will be leapfrogged by Brentford - the club he left to take charge of Spurs - if his side lose today.

 

Joke decision...how's that a goal kick?

 

So, yeah, with Bissouma off in January we'll be in the market for a new No8, right?

Bentancur seems to be on a mission to leave gaps so far

 

R9 with a tap in

 

Great goal from Xavi and Richi

 

...so, of course, Bentancur promptly tees up the move that saw Richy score

 

Get In!!! Great goal that!