Tottenham Hotspur Official Thread

Read that Lennon's torn his hamstring. So looks like he'll be out for a little while

Yeah it looked like he did. Hopefully Bale is back for Chelsea, Kaboul will come in for King, because he obviously can't do Thursday after Sunday. If he does I'll be the happiest but it's unlikely.

If you haven't got Bale and Lennon for Chelsea.

King should have been rested for Chelsea..

Bale should be fine, just got a knock in training, i'll be surprised if he doesnt start vs chelsea, huge blow losing lennon, our lack of natural wingers has been concerning me as we thrive off the pace out wide. Hopefully we'll try and sign another Winger in january, no idea whos possible though, arry was saying something about a 'special' signing, id love someone like Hulk, but I cant see it.

Also, sandro today

I'd be willing to throw Bale on the right and play Townsend against Chelsea. Remember Rose against Arsenal? Townsend deserves his shot, and actually Niko should've been brought on and not Pav today (despite him scoring the winner).

I was thinking bale on the right, modders on the left and sandro/parker in the middle. I hate the idea but i can see it happening, but for me bale always has to play on the left, hes not skillful enough to cut inside and his delivery with his right foot isnt good. No idea how we'll play, cant see rafa playing out wide after what hes said, probably be pienaar or something

Why not Rose on the left with Bale on the right and BAE behind at left-back? Bale can cut inside leaving Walker to overlap. Then he can help Walker out with defending against Sturridge.

meh id prefer bale-moric-parker-pienaar to rose-modric-parker-bale

hate playing bale on the right, has he had one notably good performance from that side?

is kranjcar still injured? he played on the right at the beginning of the season with lennon out

Niko is fit again, he was on the bench today but Harry chose to put Pav on instead of him for Lennon. Bale on the right works for Wales, he cuts in gets a shot off curl inwards into the top corner. I think it can work personally.

Wouldn't it be better, in the short term at least, to play Bale-Modric-Parker-van der Vaart with two strikers?

What about Walker on the right, and Kaboul at left back?

Why would Kaboul go LB?

IIBentII39 wrote:What about Walker on the right, and Kaboul at left back?

Why Kaboul and left back? I suppose Corluka could play behind Walker for at least this game and they'll double up on Sturridge.

Read some posts on others forums about us trying out a 3-5-1-1 style formation sort of like we did against Stoke

eg:


He'd never do it though. He'll most likely stick Bale on the right, with Sandro and Parker in the middle and Modric on the left again.

Is Bale dead for Chelsea?

Bale should be fit for Chelsea, it's Lennon who'll definitely be missing. And I'd imagine King won't make it after playing yesterday. Kaboul's back though so our defense should be fine. It's more who do we play on the right.

Lennon's injury has definitely shown how thin we are there with quality. Be interesting to see if Harry will look for anyone in January for cover?!

Shame he is going to miss Chelsea too. Reckon him and Bale would have caused Chelsea no end of problems with their pace and direct runs.

Lennon would have given Cole cancer.

He wouldn't do shit, cole has pace so his one trick is gone.

Yes, you're right, it's not as if limited wingers with pace have ever got to Cole before.

That's only because Valencia can hit a cross.

Lennon can hit a cross too, and Valencia's crossing had nothing to do with overall raping him, Lennon is a better winger and would rip the shit out of Cole.

Michael Dawson on SSN

Lennon's crossing is shit, and Coles handled him alright in the past. Only time he did anything was the year he scored against us.

Sean wrote:Lennon's crossing is shit, and Coles handled him alright in the past. Only time he did anything was the year he scored against us.

In the past when Cole used to be good.

Lennon's improved loads. His crossing is better, he cuts in a lot more now too to have shots.

So yeah he would have given Cole problems.....

Oh well, we'll never know.

I already know.

Boss.

Filippo Inzaghi wrote:Michael Dawson on SSN

I missed that, what happened?