Spurs v PAOK - Match Thread

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I think we have the squad to compete on atleast 2 fronts this season but league definitely takes a priority.
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As we showed last year, yes we can compete on 2 fronts. Difference being this year the 1st team will play 2 games a week at the back end of the season instead of the beginning, thats why we blew out last season imo. <ok>
 
Tomorrow's game isn't a gimme so I'd like to see Luka play. If we can get a couple of goals ahead we could bring him off after an hour. Up front is worrying, if VDV isn't going to be fit for Saturday, do we play JD tomorrow and risk having only Ade from our top 3 strikers?

Carlo

Corluka
Gallas
Bassong
Townsend

Carroll
Livermore
Modric/Sandro
Pienaar

Falque

Defoe
 
Tomorrow's game isn't a gimme so I'd like to see Luka play. If we can get a couple of goals ahead we could bring him off after an hour. Up front is worrying, if VDV isn't going to be fit for Saturday, do we play JD tomorrow and risk having only Ade from our top 3 strikers?

Carlo

Corluka
Gallas
Bassong
Townsend

Carroll
Livermore
Modric/Sandro
Pienaar

Falque

Defoe

I think Defoe could easily play 60mins and at the weekend,he wants game time so here's his chance.
 
Tomorrow's game isn't a gimme so I'd like to see Luka play. If we can get a couple of goals ahead we could bring him off after an hour. Up front is worrying, if VDV isn't going to be fit for Saturday, do we play JD tomorrow and risk having only Ade from our top 3 strikers?

Carlo

Corluka
Gallas
Bassong
Townsend

Carroll
Livermore
Modric/Sandro
Pienaar

Falque

Defoe

It's a tricky one HD, here's my guess

Gomes

Corluka
Gallas
Bassong
Townsend

Pienaar
Livermore
Sandro
Carroll

GDS/Modric/Kane

Defoe
 
I'd really like to see us make a real go of this one.
Pick Modric and Sandro in the middle and try to dominate possession.
 
Are Modric and Adebayor included in the nominated squad for the EL? VDV definitely isn't but I don't know about the others.
 
Dawson, Huddlestone and Kranjcar all played against Hearts - whilst Pav has played every group game, with goals against Shamrock and Rubin.

I was being sarcastic about Pavlyuchenko, as he's put in a series of performances that can best be described as uncaring.
I was using the stats from UEFA.com for the others, which I really should've known better than to have done, in all honesty.
Huddlestone's pass for Bale's goal at Hearts was fantastic, now that I think about it.
 
Fair enough, I think I'd rather we won the Europa than the FA Cup. Yes UEFA have bastardised the competition beyond recognition since we last won it but the FA Cup is fast going the sameway with the introduction of seedings. I still think there's a lot of prestige to be have by winning the trophy and even inspite of the prize money being dwarved by the CL, players abroad will take notice when you win it and it could well help us keep the current talents we have.

Wow. I missed that. How did I miss that? The FA Cup is seeded now? That's terrible. How is it seeded?