please log in to view this image Everton host Tottenham Hotspur at Goodison Park on Sunday 24th May 2015 (KO 15:00) in the 38th and final round of Premier League matches of the 2014-15 season. Everton come into the match in 10th place in the League on 47 points, while Spurs are in 6th place on 61 points. This will be the 175th time the two clubs have met. The first meeting came in April 1897 in an end of season friendly match at Tottenham Marshes which Spurs won 2-1. Everton were founder-members of the Football League and had just finished 7th in the First Division while Spurs were in the Southern League and had finished 4th. A further friendly was played at Goodison Park on New Year's Day 1902 which Everton won 3-1. The clubs' first competitive match came in the old First Round (today's Third Round) of the FA Cup in February 1904 at Goodison Park which Spurs won 2-1 with a Vivian Woodward goal and an own goal from Everton's Balmer. Both clubs embarked on a central European tour in the summer of 1905 an met twice with Everton winning both matches 2-0 in Vienna and 1-0 in Prague. A second FA Cup meeting came in January 1908 with Spurs losing 1-0 at Everton. At the end of that season, both Spurs and Everton set sail for a tour of South America and played two exhibition matches in Palermo, Argentina with the first game drawn 0-0 and Everton winning the second 4-0. On the voyage home, Spurs 'borrowed' the ship captain's parrot who lived happilly for a decade at the Tottenham offices in the High Road until it dropped dead the day news came through that Arsenal had stolen Spurs' First Division place in 1919. The first Football League meetings came in the First Division in the 1909-10 season with Everton winning 4-2 at Goodison and Spurs winning 3-0 at the Lane. The clubs then met regularly in the First Division up to season 1927-28 with eight wins for Spurs, ten wins for Everton and eight matches drawn. The only League meetings between the two clubs outside the Top Flight of English Football came in season 1930-31 in the Second Division with Everton winning 4-2 at Goodison Park and Spurs winning 1-0 at White Hart Lane. The clubs met for two more seasons in Division One before the outbreak of World War Two with a win apiece and two games drawn. Spurs won a 3rd Round FA Cup tie 3-0 at home in 1934 and a 5th round tie at home in 1937 4-3 after a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park. The first meeting after WW2 came in the FA Cup 5th Round at Goodison Park in February 1950 with Everton winning 1-0. Spurs regained their First Division status in 1950-51 and did the 'double' over Everton on their way to the first Football League Championship won by Tottenham Hotspur with a 2-1 away win and a 3-0 home win. Everton lost their First Division place that same season along with Sheffield Wednesday, while Chelsea escaped the drop on goal average. Everton were back in the First Division for the 1954-55 season and the clubs have met in the Top Flight for every subsequent season to date, except for 1977-78 when Spurs dropped down to the Second Division for one season. Bill Nicholson's first game as Tottenham's manager came at White Hart Lane in October 1958 and Spurs were 6-1 up at half-time and went on to beat Everton 10-4. A League game at White Hart Lane in December 1969 was abandoned due to floodlight failure after 29 minutes. The two clubs met in February and March of 1986 in a competition called the Screen Sport Super Cup, which was introduced to give teams who would have qualified for the European competitions some compensation, as English clubs were banned from Europe. The first match at White Hart Lane ended goalless while Everton won the return leg 3-1. The only Football League Cup meeting between the clubs came in the Fourth Round in October 2009 with Spurs winning 2-0 at the Lane with goals from Tom Huddlestone and Robbie Keane. Both Tottenham Hotspur and Everton were founder-members of the Premier League and are two of the seven clubs who have been ever-present for the entire 23 seasons of the competition, along with Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United. Spurs have taken more points off Everton in the Premier League than from any other opponent. The 76 points won by Spurs against Everton in the 44 matches played to date gives an average of 1.73 points won per game. The 2010-11 meetings in the Premier League only yielded one point for Spurs, which came in a 1-1 draw at the Lane in October 2010. The reverse fixture in January 2011 was won 1-2 by Everton. The Toffees' goals were scored by Leighton Baines at Spurs and Louis Saha & Seamus Coleman at Goodison Park. Rafael van der Vaart scored both Spurs' goals that season. Spurs' home game last season was re-arranged from the opening day to January 2012 due to rioting in the Tottenham area. Spurs won the match 2-0 with goals from Aaron Lennon and a belter from Benoit Assou-Ekotto. During the January transfer window, Spurs signed Everton's French striker Louis Saha while Steven Pienaar moved in the opposite direction on loan until the end of the season. The match at Goodison Park in March 2012 was won 1-0 by Everton when Nikica Jelavic scored his first goal for the club in the 22nd minute. During the Summer of 2012, Everton re-signed Steven Pienaar from Spurs on a permanent basis. Everton won the fixture at Goodison Park in December 2012 with two very late goals in injury time from Steven Pienaar and Nikica Jelavic after Clint Dempsey had put Tottenham ahead after 76 minutes. The return game at White Hart Lane in April 2013 finished in a 2-2 draw. Emmanuel Adebayor put Spurs ahead in the first minute but Phil Jagielka leveled things after 15 minutes. Everton took the lead with a Kevin Mirallas goal after 53 minutes and Gylfi Sigurdsson scored for Spurs with three minutes remaining. Everton & Spurs drew the Premier League match in November 2013 at Goodison Park 0-0. The game at the Lane in February 2014 was settled by an Emmanuel Adebayor goal in the 65th minute. Kevin Mirallas opened the scoring for Everton after 15 minutes at the Lane in November 2014 but Christian Eriksen levelled six minutes later and Roberto Soldado scored the winner just before the half-time whistle. Spurs winger Aaron Lennon moved to Everton on loan in January 2015 for the remaider of the season. Overall, Spurs have won 63 of the 174 matches played so far with Everton winning 59 and 52 matches drawn. please log in to view this image Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Everton Matches 1897-2015 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & Everton.... Jamie Attwell Espen Baardsen John Barlow Nick Barmby John Brearley Frank Brettell (Everton player, Spurs manager) Charlie Brown Bob Cain John Cameron (also Spurs manager) Simon Davies Anthony Gardner Paul Gascoigne David Ginola Richard Gough Charlie O'Hagan Ted Hughes Pat Jennings Steve Kelly John Kirwan Aaron Lennon Gary Lineker Bobby Mimms Charlie Morgan Steven Pienaar Robert Pilch Louis Saha Vinny Samways Pat Van den Hauwe John Watson Alex 'Sandy' Young please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2014-15 Everton Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2014-15 please log in to view this image Credit to @THFC6061. The Full Match article can be found on MyFootballFacts.com
Thanks to THFC6061 for putting in all the hard work on these all season, every season. Informative, interesting stuff. Thanks also to YV for taking over during the season. Last game of the campaign and we can still finish in 5th, 6th or 7th, so there's still something to play for. Lots of tired legs in our side and Everton will want to finish their season on a high, so I'd like to see some changes. Pochettino seems to be going with roughly the same team week-to-week though, so I think we'll see an unchanged side. Lloris; Dier, Fazio, Vertonghen, Rose; Mason, Bentaleb; Lamela, Eriksen, Chadli; Kane. Vorm, Yedlin, Stambouli, Dembele, Paulinho, Townsend, Soldado. I'd go with Lloris; Dier, Fazio, Vertonghen, Rose; Yedlin, Dembele, Stambouli, Townsend; Lamela; Soldado. Friedel, Chiriches, Mason, Bentaleb, Chadli, Eriksen, Kane. 4-4-1-1. More protection for the defence, added width and fresh legs. Support for Soldado and supply from the wings. The two sides that are still relevant to us, Liverpool and Southampton, face trips to Stoke and City, respectively. Neither of their opponents can move at all in the league, so I expect them to experiment a bit. That might allow opportunities for the away sides, unfortunately.
This season has gone really quick, I say that every season to be fair but I still remember being in my local watching us play Seattle Sounders in a pre-season friendly and then staying up til crazy o'clock to watch the Toronto game. We've seen some ups and downs but I think there's a clear vision now, we know who's good enough and who's not and the potential in the squad in my opinion is really promising, I'm also a fan of the manager (the first time I've felt like this since 'Arry) so I personally feel the club is going in the right direction. As for this weekend's game, Everton have absolutely nothing to play for except for the fact that if they want to maintain 10th position they'd need a win to ensure that and I suppose being the last game of the season at their ground they'd want to send their supporters off with a final victory but I can't see them coming at us all guns blazing. It'd be nice if we could get the 3 points and hope Pool slip up so we can finish 5th, which I think is a decent position for an up and down season with a young squad. I'd like a few changes, because some look jaded and others should just be given an opportunity. I'd go for: Lloris, Yedlin, Dier, Vertonghen, Rose Stambouli, Paul Lamela, Dembele, Chadli Kane Friedel, Fazio, Mason, Bentaleb, Eriksen, Townsend, Pritchard (if he's eligible, if not Soldado). I've kept Kane in purely because despite looking ****ed, I'd still back him to score over Soldado or Ade. I'd rather give Harrison or Coulthirst a chance but I can't see that happening. At around 80 mins, regardless of score, I'd definitely give Brad a final run out, he deserves it after a fantastic career.
I really hope he does give Brad a few minutes. The guy really deserves a final moment in the spotlight.
****ing Hell, might as well just kick off with them taking a penalty and get it out of the way early.
I am really pleased about the squad, the young players, and both the plan to move forward and the progress on it. I'm still hopeful about Pochettino, but I'm on the fence at this point. There are many things to like. On the other hand, he hasn't been good in terms of setting us up to get better chances than our opponent. We gave up shots at a closer range, on average, than any team in the league, which jibes with what I saw. On the other hand, the way we played at our best was brilliant. Is our leaky defense or the brilliant few games we had in the middle of the year what we can expect? In any case, I think we have to back Pochettino as well as we can and give him every chance to succeed next year. As for the game...could we have seen a more or less successful solution to our defensive woes against Hull that didn't make us completely toothless? Everton should give me a better idea. I'd particularly like to see Paulinho and Yedlin Sunday, to see where they stand. At least we've established Stambouli is still a solid player, so that's something. I'd certainly like us to finish fifth. On the other hand, missing out on the Europa could be the best thing that's happened to us in some time.
#thfc At Goodison Park. Interesting line-up: Lloris, Vertonghen, Fazio, Dier, Bentaleb, Mason, Lamela, Dembele, Eriksen, Chadli, Kane. 3-3-3-1 formation? Friedel has had stiches so can't play. Shame.
The formation's on our Twitter feed as 3-5-1-1, but is suspect it's 4-2-3-1 with Bentaleb at left-back. Who knows, though? Maybe Pochettino's decided to experiment?
Davies hurt himself when he slipped on Southampton's pitch, along with several other players. Rose picked up a dead leg in training yesterday.
Mirallas with Everton's first chance and he should've put them ahead. Wouldn't have deserved a lead, but Lloris made that very, very easy.
I don't know if it would be more frustrating to play with or against Dembele. So much skill and ability, but he makes the wrong choices in key positions. Arsenal 3-0 up already. Baggies on the beach.
