Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Kitchee SC

Kane's goal, as Trippier clearly doesn't like scoring:



Sterling's finish:



The keeper probably won't enjoy watching that back.

 

England v France
England v Scotland

 

By then, Citeh, United and Madrid will have bought anyone we could have in those games. I'm waiting for

"Spurs to sell all 4 full backs to City"

as a headline.

They'll all have minor injuries and miss the games once they've moved.

 

Nice of Walker to spend time rehearsing a celebration with Son before he joins City/Bayern/Accrington Stanley or whoever.

 

Oh don't you worry. The FA will find a way to make Eriksen and Wanyama Scottish just to screw us over.

 

Tomorrow's headline:

"Son says goodbye to Walker with elaborate wave"

 

I'm shocked I was able to watch the second half. I assumed I wouldn't be able to find it anywhere. Lively crowd which cheered both sides, an entertaining game and a professional performance from Spurs. The crowd shrieked every time Son got the ball, then gave Kane a huge hand when he came on for him. A minute went by and another yell went up when Kane got the ball for the first time. He looked a little bemused by the attention, then sent a long pass across the pitch to set Trippier in on goal, and tapped Trippier's return into the open net. Worth the price of admission, I think, as was Son's 20 yarder into the corner. I'm impressed by Stirling, who came within a good save of scoring within 30 seconds of coming into the game, then did score late. His first header was very well taken, and he looked active and dangerous. He's also so strong players bounce off him. Most of the attack ran through Trippier. Wanyama gets better with the ball every time I see him. Dembele must be giving some guidance, since Wanyama looked Dembele-esque at one point, shrugging off challenges from four players who surrounded him. Wimmer made a nice recovery to tackle a player who was in on goal, but looked a little shaky a couple of other times, including their goal. That may have been more Vorm's fault, though, as Vorm ended up flapping at the ball and may have knocked Wimmer out of position as well. I think Pochettino secretly despises exhibitions, as they tend to break down the discipline he builds. Spurs looked purposeful for about 70 minutes, then reverted to tapping it around the box while trying tricks. Anyway, no one was hurt and the exercise went about as well as it could have.

 

PR/marketing job done.


"Anyway, no one was hurt"

The night is young ...

 

Stuck the game on at work as the boss went on holiday yesterday (great timing).

Decent performance, a few bits of showboating in the second half which made the crowd happy. Son and Kane got great receptions from the crowd.

Good to see Sterling take his chance, could've actually been his second as a few minutes prior Dele crossed the ball and Sterling's header was saved by the keeper. Poch said he'd be involved in the first team next season so it's good that he was able to make an impression today.

Nkoudou was lively. Sissoko still looked out of his depth. Lesniak done nothing of note but didn't do anything wrong either. Same goes for Miller. Janssen tried a bit too hard at times but scored a goal so fair play. Lopez dealt with everything he needed too in his 30 mins.

Rest up lads, we've got a treble to win next season

 

At least he hasn't lost his sense of humour!

 

I was expecting Legend. Leader. Racist. to pop up there.

< full kit w**ker >

 

I'll always remember Keano kissing the Peace Cup. What a day that was!

 

Nearly kissing it:

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Why does the trophy have arms? Did they just repurpose a weightlifting trophy?

 

Perhaps we will just use the numbers as in our Chinese take away tradition

The Rice Bowl. Oh dear!

Sweet and Sour is quite Spursy though.

 

Dismount the men-at-arms and draw the archers up on both flanks.

 

Oh yeah, Volksbank Cup...

Spurs 1 Werder Bremen 1 (Harrison)
Whiteman; Lock, Omolabi, Marsh, Brown; Tsaroulla; Edwards, Harrison, Shashoua, Georgiou; Loft (Griffiths 26)

Spurs 1 FC Copenhagen 1 (Harrison (pen))
Freeman; Tsaroulla, Omolabi, Marsh, Brown; Shashoua; Reynolds (Edwards 27), Roles, Harrison, Bennetts (Gonzalez-Valasco); Griffiths (Loft 27)

Spurs 0 Taurine FC Brazil
Whiteman; Lock, Omolabi, Marsh (Griffiths 24), Brown; Tsaroulla; Shashoua, Edwards, Roles, Georgiou (Bennetts 21); Harrison

Spurs 1 Muhlenkreis 2 (Loft)
Freeman; Lock, Omolabi, Brown; Tsaroulla; Gonzalez-Valasco (Shashoua 27), Reynolds (Roles 27), Harrison, Bennetts; Loft (Edwards 27), Griffiths

Spurs 2 Galatasaray 0 (Georgiou, Loft)
Whiteman; Lock, Tsaroulla, Brown, Bennetts; Maghoma; Edwards (Griffiths 21), Roles (Reynolds 38), Shashoua (Loft 30), Georgiou; Harrison

The main takeaway I have from this is that Shayon Harrison has to be some kind of cyborg.