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Sunday 03 March 2013
Kick Off @ 1600hrs GMT

avb needs to be tough and drop some players.
dembele and ade should be worried.

Hugo boss lloris
walker dawson caulker verts
lennon parker dembele stiggerson
bale holtby

Hard one to predict as usual, depends whose up for it on the day. AVB will be at is best to encourage the players as much as possible. I think AVB will go with a 4-5-1 formation to start with, although i'd prefer a 4-4-2 if Defoe is fit enough. We might see a good display by adebayor to make up for his sending off at the Shamirates Kebab house Centre.

If Bale & Lennon perform and our midfield hold well, we could win this quite easily, but thats easily said. Watching Arsenals last game against Villa, they were lucky to win 2-1 and they're midfield were all over the place. But they'll be up for this game.

I just hope we slaughter them, they're already mouthing off as i type this! COYS!!

Lloris
Walker Vertonghen Dawson Ekotto
Lennon Dembele Parker Lennon
Defoe Adebayor

(Or Holtby could start in place of Defoe just behind Adebayor in 4-5-1 formation)

i would play caulker ahead of verts.
caulker will do well aganst them at corners

just hope players such as dembele ,walker, parker and ade keep their cool, they are never far from a sending off after a first booking.dembele was lucky in our europa lge match to stay on the pitch. "keep calm and carry on"....demolishing those cnuts.

i would start defoe on the bench . he will be itching to get on later aganst mershiter and the donkey.

"The dramatic recent history of this famous old clash would suggest it is impossible to predict. There have been 33 goals in the last six meetings. Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas knows a victory will propel his team a huge way towards the Champions League, leaving rivals Arsenal seven points adrift of their arch-rivals with 10 games to play. It's very difficult to see Arsenal's flimsy defence holding Spurs at bay. They've kept just one clean sheet in 13 games against top six or Champions League opposition this season."

Tottenham: Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Assou-Ekotto, Dembele, Parker, Lennon, Bale, Sigurdsson, Adebayor. Subs: Friedel, Gallas, Naughton, Defoe, Holtby, Livermore, Carroll.

COYS . . . . .

still to nervous to comment yet lol , coys

get in you beautys

Tottenham won a pulsating north London derby to go third in the league and seven points ahead of Arsenal.

Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon slotted in two carbon copy goals in three first-half minutes after defence-splitting passes to put Spurs in control.

It was Bale's ninth goal in seven games but Per Mertesacker's header went in off the Welshman to give Arsenal hope.

Bale skied a far-post chance before Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey almost equalised but drove a shot just wide.
Entertainment and goals are almost guaranteed between these two sides and there was no shortage of either in an enthralling contest at White Hart Lane.

Tottenham's failure to take a number of glorious chances to wrap up the game as Arsenal desperately chased an equaliser only added to the drama.

But the home side held on after enduring six minutes of added time to go 12 games unbeaten and, in the process, leapfrog Chelsea as well as move two points behind second-placed Manchester City.

The wizardry of Spurs winger Bale has swept all before him this year and he was again on the scoresheet for his side as the Spurs standard bearer took his tally to 20 goals for the season.

The Gunners paid the price for a serious lapse of concentration towards the end of the first half, with their determined efforts after the break not enough to retrieve the situation.

There had been a huge sense of anticipation around the game and that transformed itself into an intensity and urgency on the pitch in the fevered atmosphere of a game between these rivals.

In the frenetic opening skirmishes, the Gunners almost picked their way through when Santi Cazorla's incisive pass released Olivier Giroud, whose shot was blocked by the sliding recovery tackle of Jan Vertonghen.
Arsenal were tigerish and tenacious but the promise of their attacks were continually snuffed out by the excellent Tottenham centre-backs Vertonghen and Michael Dawson.

They produced the resilience and awareness the visitors could have done with from their defence, who were twice caught out to give Spurs the upper hand.

Gylfi Sigurdsson and Scott Parker each played incisive passes from the left through the heart of Arsenal's defence for Bale and Lennon to score.

Bale sent a 38th-minute left-foot shot into the bottom corner before Lennon rounded Wojciech Szczesny and slotted in his fourth goal of the campaign.

Spurs had led 1-0 and 2-0 against their rivals in their past two meetings but ended up losing both 5-2 and Arsenal threatened another comeback when Mertesacker's glanced header from Theo Walcott's free-kick skimmed in off Bale's head.

Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris crucially gathered a low Carl Jenkinson cross as Giroud and Aaron Ramsey threatened to pounce before Spurs took back a grip on the fluctuating game.

Bale blazed over an Benoit Assou-Ekotto cross from the left before Sigurdsson was clean through only to square the ball for Mertesacker to clear instead of shooting.

Arsenal were exposed as they piled forward and Defoe sent a shot agonisingly wide as the home side again failed to put Arsenal away.

Spurs were almost punished when Walcott curled a 22-yard free-kick just wide towards the end.

Tottenham will feel they are strongly placed for a top four spot but there will also be a note of caution after they let a similar lead over Arsenal slip last season.

Tottenham arsenil

Possesion
54% 46%
Shots
11 10
On target
5 6
Corners
4 6
Fouls
17 13

vis how good is it that even when we not playing well the players still put in maximum effort.

your right about lennon he worked so hard for the team.
walkers slowly getting back to hes best and how wrong was i about verts. i thought hes looked shaky lately but was a brick. also loved dawson passion when he went had go at them for not kicking the ball out.

just a shame we let in that silly goal just after half time and had nerveous but not 2 many hairy moments. liverpool next and there defence is pony

lloris.8 brillant disubrution. came off hes line well.
he looked so annoyed at letting in a goal.

walker 8 getting back to bes best
dawson. 9just what you want from your captian. showing passion and loved how he had a go at them for not kicking the ball out. also geting our playes fired up before the game.
verts.9 best game in a spurs shirt since man u away.
dembele 8 he was a lot better today.
stigggerson8 worked hard down the left, great vison for the pass that led to the goal and should of scored.
bale7 quiet game but great finnish for the goal
lennon 8 he coverd so much ground and track back loads
ade7 great decoy runs to create space for others.

avb is doing so well. love the guy

Good win bit harder than i would like Hugo looks the bees knees between the sticks Defoe did more than adebadmiss did in the game but i think we need a world class striker to go 1 step further