Match Thread Vs Swansea City

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Swansea v Tottenham

TEAM NEWS

Swansea's Garry Monk will replace on-loan defender Steven Caulker, who is ineligible to face his parent club.

Angel Rangel suffered a recurrence of his ankle injury against QPR and will face a late fitness test.

Tottenham's Ledley King and Aaron Lennon are definitely missing, but Jermain Defoe should be fit.

Sebastien Bassong and Roman Pavlyuchenko are doubtful while Michael Dawson is not quite ready to make a comeback from his Achilles injury.
MATCH PREVIEW

This year has been a memorable one for Swansea with promotion to the Premier League after a thrilling play-off final victory over Reading, which was then followed by an impressive first-half of the campaign in the top division. The Swans' form at the Liberty Stadium this season has been terrific with four wins, four draws and just one defeat - to Manchester United - while conceding only three goals in those nine home matches.
The next three home fixtures will be a tough test for Brendan Rodgers' team as they face Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea before the end of January. Those three teams are currently battling for the unofficial title of top team in London; and at the moment it's currently being won by Spurs, who come into this match in third place and looking for their seventh away victory in the league this season.

Tottenham's form has been phenomenal - they've taken 38 points from their last 15 Premier League fixtures - that's two more points than both Manchester clubs have over teh same period. Spurs have scored in each of their last 16 League games and the only team to prevent them finding the net were Manchester United in Tottenham's opening league match of the season.

There will be plenty of attention focused on Gareth Bale ahead of the match. The Welsh international's second goal at Norwich on Tuesday was magnificent - his double strike at Carrow Road meant that Tottenham have won the last 10 Premier League matches in which he has scored.

It's the first time these two sides will have met in over twenty years, and will be my first visit to the Liberty Stadium this season. With two teams who like to play attractive football, it has the potential to be an enthralling match.
MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

This is the first league meeting between the two sides since February 1983 and their first in any competition since a League Cup tie in October 1991.
Swansea won both their previous two top-flight home games against Spurs - Tottenham last won a league game in Swansea in September 1946.

Swansea

Swansea have the best home defensive record in the division with just three goals conceded.
There have been just 14 league goals scored at the Liberty Stadium this season - fewer than anywhere else in the division (Anfield and the Hawthorns are the next lowest with 18).
All of the Swans' four league wins this season have come at home
Brendan Rodgers' side have won just one of their last eight league games.

Tottenham

Victory for Spurs would equal their record total away wins in a Premier League season (seven, set in 1993-94, 1995-96, 2009-10 and 2010-11)
Gareth Bale has scored or assisted at least one goal in seven of his last eight Premier League appearances and has already created as many Premier League goalscoring chances in 2011-12 as he did in 2010-11 (48).
They have at least seven points more than they have had after 17 games in any previous Premier League season.

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Spurs leading 1-0 at half time (VDV) without playing that well, passing all over the place, Harry needs to sort them out.

really poor performance, players not up for it today and looked tired. Swansea were very good and deserved the draw at least. Still, not an easy place to go to, so a point might prove good in the end.

dissapointing all the same, sloppy goal to let in but his cross did take a deflection , think it threw friedel. and if only ade had controlled that cross earlier reckon that would have wrapped it up. cant knock em though, swansea plyed their part and came on to us all the time.

Whatever the result, we wouldnt swop with Manure or Chelski.

I'm disappointed with a draw but it's a fair result.... Brendan Rodgers has done a good job there , proving you don't have to go the Stoke Tony Pulis route... If they had quality center forwards they'd be up there challenging ... Hope they stay up ..

For us, it was a difficult couple of away games in the space of a few days ...Man Ure had two at home , Goons & Chavs the same so 4 points ain't so bad ....

cstmrsking wrote:Whatever the result, we wouldnt swop with Manure or Chelski.

C'mon Sunland. City lose points. Seems like we had the best of it from the top 3.

we was very poor. we had nuffing on left left wing. ade kept going there to get the ball. we should of freshen players up and used the sqaud but again same 11 and a tired performance.

as for swansea goal brad should of been stronger.

We weren't very poor , just not running at our best, which we needed to be to get a win... The Swansea performance is obviously not getting the credit it deserves...

And Brad was at fault for their goal but having seen it a few times now, I also put it down to, Kaboul who even if the goalkeeper had shouted for it, could have cleared, giving away a corner ... Had Ledders been in his situation I don't think the Swans would've scored like that...

Some nice pics of our game away at the Liberty Stadium...
Click on the link below...

http://www.pbase.com/andrew_thomas/image/140649068

cstmrsking wrote:

cstmrsking wrote:Whatever the result, we wouldnt swop with Manure or Chelski.

C'mon Sunland. City lose points. Seems like we had the best of it from the top 3.

Now the a*se drop points. Thanks be to Big MJ.