Reading F.C. vs. Tottenham Hotspur

how long has this break been but now its back to the bread and butter of the prem. sky game for us.


brad
walker dawson jan ekotto
stigg sandro dembelle bale
ade dempsey

i bring lennon on for either bale or stigg in the second half.

i wonder if parker back then maybe bring him on later aswell.

Loughtonlegend wrote:how long has this break been but now its back to the bread and butter of the prem. sky game for us.


brad
walker dawson jan ekotto
stigg sandro dembelle bale
ade dempsey

i bring lennon on for either bale or stigg in the second half.

i wonder if parker back then maybe bring him on later aswell.

If Parkers fit Lought, I would start him, Sandro has gone from last season to the Olympics to the Prem and qualifiers with Brazil and needs a break.

I can see us getting our first win of the season, then we will be on a roll. Am I missing something here?, has Sigurdson been in the squad for any of our opening games?.

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Fair play to 'em the locality looks after the team . . . .

dean austin lol

oh didnt darren caskey play for them.

is that atoube and 1 is rasshit lol

And this dude who I can't find a piccy for . . . . .

http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=9110

personally i think AVB will have a defensive look for sundays game....his to nervous thinking about a loss......he should however (lol) be thinking about winning 5-0...and ...LET THIS SHOW GET STARTED BABY !!!!!

Jim, I think AVB has already stated Friedel will start for this one . I'm expecting Lloris to make his debut versus Lazio on Thursday .

I'm hoping the team will be

............Friedel


Walker.. Caulker....Vertonghan...BAE

.....Dempsey...Parker...Dembele

....Lennon.... Adybayor....Bale

but I think, Gallas will start ahead of, Caulker and AVB will go with Livermore and Sandro again.

I honestly think we will win this one, but looking at todays results who can tell, Chelsea top held by QPR, well the Chelsea players can't blame this one on AVB. Fulham beating WBA who were on a high, pleased for Jol, I can see this season throwing up some strange results but do not want to see anymore at our expense. Our revival starts tomorrow I'm convinced, and I am still excited about this season.

we need to win then beat qpr at home then it wont look to bad.

the way avb talking in hes press conffernce is dempsey and sandro hand long trips and came back late plus he said brad will be in goal

brad
walker daws/galas vert ekotto
lennon stigg jake dembe bale
defoe

i also heard ade still not fit enough to start.

dempsey loris sandro will all play aganst lazio

reading are a hard team to break down, so if hes playing wingers he needs more than a lone defoe up front cos their defence will mop up those crosses all day long unless ades up there with him. if defoes on his own forget wing play get at them through the middle with an attacking midfield and keep it to feet on the ground. ive seen 2 home games wasted playing wide with no one on the end of anything.siggy and dempsey are ideal for this type of play so lets play to our strengths if ades not fit.

TEAM NEWS

Adam Federici is likely to be available for Reading despite pulling out of Australia's squad this week with a knee problem.

But the game may come too soon for Jimmy Kebe, who returned to training this week.

Spurs boss Andre Villas Boas has opted to start with Brad Friedel instead of new signing Hugo Lloris in goal.

Clint Dempsey could also make a first appearance following his deadline-day switch from Fulham.
MATCH PREVIEW

You could forgive Reading fans for forgetting that the football season has even started. It's so long since they played a league game that their matches against Stoke and Chelsea must seem a distant memory.

Chelsea's European Super Cup commitments, a storm in Sunderland and the international break mean that 25 days will have elapsed between Reading's defeat at Stamford Bridge and their kick off against Spurs. At least a narrow League Cup win over Peterborough kept the troops in trim.

Reading should be encouraged by their start - if they can remember it. They were good value for their point against Stoke and were in the lead at Chelsea for 40 minutes, only falling behind to an offside goal by Fernando Torres.

Whilst Royals fans have been waiting for something to happen since then, Tottenham supporters have felt their brows gradually furrowing. Points were dropped at home to West Brom and Norwich, Modric and van der Vaart have gone, Dempsey and Dembele have arrived, but AVB's first win has not.

Another arrival at White Hart Lane is France goalkeeper and captain Hugo Lloris, who will have to wait for his debut after Villas Boas declared that Brad Friedel would remain his number one for the time being. Lloris admitted it was "not nice" to hear, but he's probably now painfully aware that Friedel has made 307 consecutive Premier League appearances. It's a sequence which takes in spells at Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa as well as Spurs.

Now aged 41, Friedel is one of the nicest, and one of the best, professionals around - but even the greats cannot overcome time's winged chariot forever. He is after all six-and-a-half years older than his manager - and that just might be another record.
MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

Spurs are unbeaten in their last five league and cup games against Reading.

Reading

Reading did not fail to register a win in the first three games of their previous two Premier League seasons.
A goal for the Royals would be their 50th at home in the Premier League.
Reading managed just 19 home goals in their last Premier League campaign (2007-08) - the second lowest in the division that season.

Tottenham

Tottenham have won just one of their last 11 Premier League away games.
Andre Villas Boas has won only three of his last 15 Premier League games.
Aaron Lennon is poised to make his 200th Premier League appearance for Spurs.