Europa League Away Game Vs Sheriff Tiraspol

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Thursday 24th October 2013.
Kick Off @ 1800hrs BST.

FC Sheriff Tiraspol (Russian: ФК Шериф Тирасполь, known simply as Sheriff) is an association football club located in Tiraspol, Transnistria (Moldova). The club had dominated Moldovan football since 2001, winning twelve championship title in the Moldovan National Division out of thirteen in this time frame.

FC Sheriff Tiraspol is based in Tiraspol, the capital of the breakaway state of Transnistria, generally recognized as part of Moldova. The club plays in the Divizia Naţională, the top division in Moldovan football. The club was founded by the Sheriff security company on 4 April 1997, who remains a key sponsor.

The club was officially refounded under the leadership of Victor Gushan (the company's president). The first Sheriff coach, Ahmad Alaskarov (who was as a coach in the old Soviet Supreme League), was charged with leading the team to the Moldovan top division.

Sheriff's first football trophy was the 1998–99 Moldovan Cup. The club won promotion to the top flight in 1998, after its first-ever season, and dominated the Moldovan National Division with ten consecutive titles from 2001 to 2010, winning an eleventh in 2012. The side also have seven Moldovan Cup titles, including six double-winning seasons. However, the club has never reached the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

The club was founded in 1997 by former cop Viktor Gushan, and employee of the Sheriff in Moldova. The club entered the second tier of Moldovan football, the "A" Division later that year and won its championship by 14 points to gain promotion to National Division. The club won its first major silver with the 1999 Moldovan Cup. In the final at the Republican Stadium, Sheriff scored an injury-time equaliser before winning the match against Constructorul Chisinau 2–1 after extra time. Sheriff's first National Division title came in the 2000–01 season, which also included their second Moldovan Cup triumph as they beat Nistru Otaci on penalties after a goalless match. The league triumph was the first of a run of ten consecutively up to 2010, also including league-cup doubles in 2002, 2006 and 2008–10. Sheriff won each Moldovan Super Cup from 2004 to 2010, but did not have to play a match on four occasions due to winning it on default through a double. Sheriff were denied an eleventh successive title by Dacia Chişinău in 2010–11, but reclaimed the title the following season.

The team won the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup in 2003 and 2009, becoming the first team from Moldova to win an international title. Sheriff were the first club in Moldova to sign contract players from Brazil and Africa.

For anyone who can read Moldovan here's the link to Sheriff's website. Enjoy . . . . .


http://www.fc-sheriff.com/eng/

right i would like us to go 442. we can afford to try something new out. seeing as we almost qaulifed. think we need a point

brad
naughon chrich kaboul verts.

lamela dembele erikson lennon

ade defoe

rest paullino towsend

hes been training with the first team. scored a great free kick aswell

yay ade has traveld. 442 lets go and attack

Emmanuel Adebayor is in line for his first Tottenham appearance of the season in the Europa League meeting with Sheriff Tiraspol in Moldova.

Striker Adebayor had been training with the reserves after turning down chances to leave the club in the summer.

But he could start on Thursday, as could winger Aaron Lennon after he recovered from a foot injury.

Etienne Capoue (ankle), Danny Rose (toe) and Younes Kaboul (adductor) remain on the sidelines.

Right-back Kyle Walker, winger Andros Townsend and midfielder Paulinho have been rested.

Tiraspol is capital of the breakaway state of Transnistria, which has its own passports, currency, police, army and border guards but is considered part of Moldova.

"For this moment, we consider ourselves to be the main force in Moldova in terms of football," said Sheriff manager Veaceslav Rusnac, whose side have won their domestic title 12 times in the past 13 seasons.

"Our results speak for us because in the last years we almost always become champions and every time we are in European competition it helps us.

"Probably there are areas in Europe that think we have a lot of vodka and bears, but it is not so.

"In terms of football and working in football, there are not too many places in the former USSR that have such conditions."

Team Lloris Naughton Chiriches Vertonghen Fryers Dembele Sandro Lamela Eriksen Lennon Defoe


Subs Friedel Dawson Chadli Holtby Sigurdssen Adebayor Soldado

LOVELOVEROCKET Today at 19:18
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going to love the responses tonight after this snoozefest performance. Crying or Very sad


winning ugly the norm now.


seebee wrote

Another 3 points another away win another clean sheet can't believe some of the negativity on here

how long can our luck hold out see the bigger picture............

djfitzo Today at 20:04
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LOVELOVEROCKET wrote:going to love the responses tonight after this snoozefest performance. Crying or Very sad


winning ugly the norm now.


seebee wrote

Another 3 points another away win another clean sheet can't believe some of the negativity on here

how long can our luck hold out see the bigger picture............


1200 miles away from home iin the middle of nowhere, yeah I'll take that. No injuries to key players, so full strength team for Sunday
or would you take all our best players go gung-ho ang get a load of injuries, we have beat yet another team getting 11 men behind the. Ball on the counter attack at home, jeeeezzzz

Tottenham Hotspur moved a step closer to the Europa League knockout stages with a hard-earned victory away to Sheriff Tiraspol in Moldova.

Jan Vertonghen's header from Christian Eriksen's cross set Spurs on their way.

Vlad Chiriches produced a superb clearance to deny Henrique Luvannor an equaliser before Aaron Lennon hit a post on his first start for two months.

Jermain Defoe's deflected shot doubled the lead as Spurs made it three wins in three games in Group K.

The England international's 75th-minute strike moved him level with Martin Chivers's club record of 22 European goals.

Having disposed of Norway's Tromso and Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala without conceding a goal, Spurs knew a third group victory would confirm their place in the last 32 - if Anzhi's home clash with Tromso ended level.

It did not, but Anzhi's 1-0 win means Tottenham will reach the knockout stages if they defeat Sheriff at White Hart Lane on 7 November.

Villas-Boas will hope it is a more comfortable experience than the one he endured at the Sheriff Stadium.

The champions of Moldova have not won a group game in Europe for three years and must have feared the worst when Vertonghen beat captain Miral Samardzic in the air to power Eriksen's 12th-minute cross home, the Belgian's first goal since March.

Yet Vertonghen spent the rest of the half at the other end of the pitch as Sheriff put the Spurs defence under intense pressure.

The hosts would have been level in the 15th minute but for a superb piece of defending by Chiriches, the Romania international denying Luvannor an equaliser after the Brazilian rounded Hugo Lloris and rolled the ball towards an empty net.

Cadu, another Brazilian, had a goal ruled out for offside, Ismail Isa flashed the ball across the face of goal and Luvannor fired over the bar as the home side continued to press.

And there were anxious faces on the Spurs bench when Isa went down in the penalty area under a challenge from Sandro.

But Tottenham survived on a night when the result outweighed the performance - and it might have been more comfortable for Villas-Boas had Lennon marked his first start since the opening weekend of the season with a goal, twice going close to doubling Spurs' lead.

Defoe's goal confirmed the victory, though, and the Londoners reach the midway point of the group stage with a 100% record and yet to concede a goal.

wow why do we play so poor in this competion. players are fighting for a first team spot

lamela is so far from the first team right now. he kept losing it.

lloris 7
chirch7 love the way he brings the ball out.
naution7 decent display at right back.
verts 7 for the goal.
fryers 7 extra point because he was out of postion
dembela 7 kept the ball well
sandro 6 he looks off the pace
lennon6 decent in spells.
erikson 8 best player. always looking to make things happen
lamela3 awfull. got bit better on the right side then avb took him off
defoe6 4 shots 2 really tame shot and a hit and hope for the goal.

every europa game this season we been poor because of defoe upfront on hes own. he cant link up play. its not hes fault. hes not that type of player.

thought chadi done well when he came on.
its the result that means more then the performance.
now we can rest players when we get loads of games in november,

Makes me laugh how these teams, some champions of their own Countries are supposed to roll over and lay down when Spurs come to town. We put on professional displays miles away from home, keep clean sheets, rest our most current influential players and it's still not good enough, fickle, nah not Spurs.

how many times did they get through us in the first half.
a better team would of been 3 up

remeber young boys.

wish adel had the chances lamela has had for spurs so far.
30mill you expect them to be ready

Loughtonguy wrote:how many times did they get through us in the first half.
a better team would of been 3 up

remeber young boys.

wish adel had the chances lamela has had for spurs so far.
30mill you expect them to be ready

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What chances? We weren't in Europe when Taraabt nearly played for us,Lamela has hardly played, yeah I remember Young Boys, we knocked them out of CL qualifying.

how many times did they get through us in the first half.
a better team would of been 3 up

What like Arsenal and Cheatski, did they get 3 up? Don't you get it Lought, we play within ourselves, making sure we don't pick up stupid injuries and get through this stage and play our full strength team and put in the effort when it really counts when the decent teams are left. The management are doing what they are paid to do, pick the team for the job in hand, so far we have lost 2 games in 14 games in all comps and all you doubters are saying we have been lucky and we will be found out, could it be the slowly,but surley AVB are doing what they are paid to do, manage a squad of players.

adel did not start a prem game for spurs
lamela cost 30mill and has looked poor.
if ade played like that you would be slating him.

a better team would of scored tonight.
and sherif have not won a game yet