Injured his ankle in training on Friday, apparently. They just said on the radio that he's a doubt for Thursday, so it sounds like a short-term one, thankfully.
Only beating Sunderland 1-0 does not bode too well for us against Chelsea. I just hope Ade finds his scoring touch again soon.
Play Walker in Lennon's position, with Charlie (if fit) or Kab moving into RB position. I think pace is essential against Chelsea's pensioners- they couldn't cope with Messrs Van Persie (see below) and Walcott in terms of speed. Walker showed again today that he's a fine crosser of the ball (better than Lennon IMHO) too. I would also play Sandro and stick him to Juan Mata with super-glue. If Torres plays we're fine! Chelsea and pace... [video=youtube;t2YP8x5tEBM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2YP8x5tEBM&feature=related[/video]
think if anything it will bode quite well for us as no doubt HR will make the point that in order to win on thursday we will have to step it up and improve our play as oppose to us winning 4 niland thinking we are the dogs and then getting caught short underestimating chelsea...think we will be firing on all cylinders come the chelsea match
Well we will have to have a good surge in form to fire on all cylinders so quickly. A penalty against Stoke,a penalty against PAOK,a 3-0 against Bolton which all agree should have been more and a now meaningless 0-4 against Shamrock which we should have done anyway so there's nothing too exceptional there. Where's Ade? He should be scoring against The Stokes and the Sunderlands of this world. I'm hoping that Chelsea keep their fairly indifferent form going for our match because our form has dipped a bit.
I think Spurs form after the first two games has alternated between outstanding and okay a few times. I was very relieved they pulled out three points after a very disappointing end to a great run. But I think either they play the other team off the park (Liverpool, Aston Villa), or they look good enough to probably get the win, but might draw or even lose with a certain amount of luck (Arsenal, Stoke.) Chelsea are more likely to be scratching their heads, after looking like they'd become Chelsea of old, then drawing to Wigan. The cliche is that none of this matters, and it probably won't. The key may be whether Spurs really believe they are the better team, or if somewhere in their minds they think, it's Chelsea, we aren't really supposed to win.
