Match Thread Vs Shamrock Rovers

Arry field the weakest team we have, i want a fresh team for the gooners game.

surley play a strong side and get the game won first half,

save parker ade king ekotto and brad bale

442
charlie kaboul bassong rose
gio sandro livermore carroll
pav defoe

i would give defoe 60 mins then put gio up front

1st meeting between the two clubs. I would expect another outing from the so-called "yoof team" Surely this is one they should win ? Shamrock played today and won 5-2 at home. So far this season in their league they are sitting in 2nd place with about 5 games left to play. If the link below dosen't 'highlight' copy & paste into browser for Shamrocks official website . . . . .


http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/images/stories/article-images/rand_landingpics/110925-v-bray-web.jpg

Loughtonlegend wrote:surley play a strong side and get the game won first half,

save parker ade king ekotto and brad bale

442
charlie kaboul bassong rose
gio sandro livermore carroll
pav defoe

i would give defoe 60 mins then put gio up front

What and risk injury to key players to a team that would struggle in league 2 , i don't think so mate.

Cudicini

Corluka

Bassong

Gallas (needs matches)

Townsend

Caroll

Livermore

Gio

Cabellos

Kane

Coubially young 16 yr old ivory coast kid

subs Pav Gomes Kaboul Luango Sandro Defoe Ekotto

Thanks Arnie dam was looking foward to seeing them 2 play especially Coubially

Tottenham v Shamrock Rovers


Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp will rest his first team against Shamrock Rovers but still intends to field "seven or eight" internationals.

England winger Aaron Lennon will play after overcoming a groin problem and Danny Rose is back to full fitness following an ankle injury.

Roman Pavlyuchenko (hamstring) and Steven Pienaar (groin) will also play.

Redknapp said: "We've got a stronger, more experienced team tomorrow and a chance to play some of the other lads."
Giovani dos Santos, Andros Townsend, Jake Livermore and Tom Carroll are likely to figure but Michael Dawson (Achilles), William Gallas (calf) and Tom Huddlestone are out.

Huddlestone needs an operation on his ankle injury and could be out for several months.

Rovers last visited England during the 1957-58 season to face a Manchester United team made up of the Busby Babes, but they will field a familiar face in former Spurs midfielder Rohan Ricketts.

Defender Craig Sives (groin) missed the 5-2 win over Bray Wanderers at the weekend but is expected to return, while fellow defender Ken Oman (knee) could also be passed fit.

Rovers boss Michael O'Neill said: "Tottenham will be a tough challenge. You look at their players and, while people might say it will not be their strongest side, those players come in wanting to force their way into the strongest team so they are very hungry to play.

"I think we will face a top class side regardless of what the personnel is and we'll have to deal with it."


Did you know?
Shamrock Rovers winger Rohan Ricketts made 30 Premier League appearances for Tottenham before leaving in 2005

Don't know how correct this is but this is TEAMtalk stating what the squads will be for tomorrow . . . . . .


Tottenham (from): Gomes, Cudicini, Archer, Bassong, Corluka, Kaboul, Walker, Waller-Lassen, Livermore, Townsend, Fredericks, Carroll, Sandro, Kranjcar, Nicholson, Parrett, Lennon, Pienaar, Rose, Pavlyuchenko, Dos Santos, Falque, Kane, Lancaster, Defoe, Pritchard.

Shamrock (from): Thompson, Brush, Sullivan, Stevens, Sives, Murray, Rice, O'Donnell, Flynn, Peterson, Turner, Dennehy, Finn, McCormack, McCabe, Twigg, Sheppard, Kilduff, Ricketts.

tonights team - Cudicini; Walker, Bassong, Corluka, Rose; Lennon, Carroll, Livermore, Giovani; Defoe, Pavlyuchenko


bench boys - Gomes, Kaboul, Bale, Falque, Modric, Townsend, Kane.


Modric and Bale on then bench whats all that about surley they should be at home watching Coronation Street

Yep, great advert for football. David against Goliath but second half it was always going to be David who was going to win

Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers


Tottenham survived a scare as they fought back from 1-0 down to run out comfortable winners against Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League.

Rovers took an unlikely lead after the break when Stephen Rice flicked in Gary Twigg's long-range strike.

But their lead lasted just 10 minutes before Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe both headed home in the space of two minutes to wrestle back control.

Giovani dos Santos smashed home a third five minutes later to wrap up the win.
With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.

But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.

Rovers keeper Richard Brush diverted Defoe's 17th-minute effort on to the bar before Danny Rose smashed the woodwork with a looping strike.

Former Coventry trainee Brush also made wonderful saves to deny long-range efforts from Dos Santos and Pavlyuchenko, who had a header cleared off the line by Stephen O'Donnell.
And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.

A curling free-kick from Gary McCabe was palmed away by Carlo Cudicini to Twigg on the edge of the box and his effort was touched home by Rice.

Rovers' hopes of pulling off one of the great European shocks of all time lasted just 10 minutes before Spurs finally found their scoring touch.

Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.

And the home fans breathed a huge sigh of relief barely two minutes later when Andros Townsend's cross was finished by Defoe.

Mexican ace Dos Santos smashed home the third five minutes later after good work from Defoe.

Former Tottenham star Rohan Ricketts came off the Rovers bench with 19 minutes to go to a warm reception from the home fans, six years after leaving the Lane.

Defoe celebrates with Dos Santos after heading Spurs into the lead

I thought Dos Santos was brilliant, MOTM for me, was watching the game on and off as i'm packing for a 2 week holiday in Turkey

Great result in the end, as soon as they scored i said we would come back and win 4-1, nearly got it spot on! Well done lads !

Roll on the Goonies, can hopefully watch it on my Hols!

Have a great time DJ.

I felt quite proud last night watching this game, what a fine bunch of youngsters we have. People go on about Wenger and his youngsters but put our's up against their's and we would come out on top every time imo, they were pure class. I do hope we hang on to Dos Santos, and I agree with DJ he was man of the match for me, perhaps a bit greedy at times when he takes on too many players when he could do the simple thing by passing to a team mate, but having said that a very exciting player to watch.

The game was boring first half complete disgrace from our perspective, half empty stands and then you had the Irish making it sound like they were at home , it just goes to show if the home fans can't turn out to support our team and take this comp seriously then why should the club, Micky mouse cup , good game second half but bitterly disappointed with the turn out.