Probably not. The win last week was excellent. Not expected yet hugely welcome we now have to do it all over again this time against an in form Tottenham Hotspur which leaves me with the same feeling I had prior to the match last weekend. Hopefully the outcome is the same but I just can’t see it.
So where do we stand in the table? Well picking up at least a point is essential yet unlikely, especially after Bournemouth picked up three points against Manchester United yesterday, but it won’t be enough to climb out of the bottom three. An unlikely win by the odd goal would see us climb to 15th temporarily while an even more unlikely victory with a four goal margin would see us jump to 14th. Yeah…. I thought that too so I’ll pass the drugs around. All the same you can check what the bookmakers say and enhance your odds using this promotion.
A premature outline of the early team news and injury updates can be found in the match preview which went up last night. It also features a look at the history of the fixture, some stats and facts ahead of the game and some random thoughts from myself dotted throughout.
For actual team news you can consult the bottom of the article. I will try to get it published as soon as it becomes available but I’ve been to work all morning so you may have to bear with while I start cooking the roast and so on. If you really can’t wait have a look in the ‘comments’ section below and I’m sure one of our regulars will have it up in seconds.
Likewise if it is a stream you are looking for you are best served turning towards our regulars who will often post links throughout the comments section which is especially useful for those who aren’t at the game or don’t have Sky Sports or who aren’t in a pub watching the match.
Other than all of that there isn’t really much to add apart from a bit of wishful thinking and blind faith. Well sort of faith anyway. As much faith as you can have in a team that has won like five games in a year.
Howay the lads!
Tottenham: Hugo Lloris (c); Kyle Walker, Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen, Danny Rose; Tom Carroll, Eric Dier; Erik Lamela, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen; Harry Kane
Subs: Michel Vorm, Ben Davies, Kieran Trippier, Nabil Bentaleb, Nacer Chadli, Josh Onomah, Heung-Min Son
Newcastle: Rob Elliot; Daryl Janmaat, Chancel Mbemba, Fabricio Coloccini (c), Paul Dummett; Moussa Sissoko, Vurnon Anita, Jack Colback, Georginio Wijnaldum; Siem de Jong; Papiss Cisse
Subs: Karl Darlow, Jamie Sterry, Kevin Mbabu, Yoan Gouffran, Florian Thauvin, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Ayoze Perez
Criticising Colo again I see…
We have no idea what his instructions were. If it’s zonal marking, someone else should have picked him up. He was never tight on Dier anyway so couldn’t have stayed with him anyway once he ran so close to that bunch of players.
ToonDarnSarf(Quote)
collo no were near the dude he was surposed to be marking why aint that a surprise 😯
TOONARMYELITE(Quote)
TOONDARNSARF 76
open ya blind eyes ya doughnut
TOONARMYELITE(Quote)
Defending colo seriously!!!!!!!!
Ice pup(Quote)
The man is poison to our club make no mistake about it
Ice pup(Quote)
It’s odd, that’s what I’m saying. He never even got tight to Dier. Usually you see a centre half touching an attacking player to make sure he doesn’t get too far away and to make sure he isn’t given space to do something in our box. He’s an experienced defender, so why didn’t he do that? His mistake or flawed tactics?
ToonDarnSarf(Quote)
Iv kicked a ball or two and to play zonal u all play zonal man on man can be done in zonal but generally someone helping out to double up or allow the defense to concentrate on zonal. In other words it’s not zonal for me
Ice pup(Quote)
We must replace Cisse with Mitro. Take Colback off and bring Perez on. Play him and Mitro up from with DJ behind
Stuart79(Quote)
Sick of this. It’s the 16th game and we’ve been completely outplayed in at least 10 of them!
georgio(Quote)
That says it all, lowest pass success rate in PL for 4 Years
ash1001(Quote)
Colo is ****! He’s been **** for the last couple of years. That doesn’t let McClaren off but nobody could do anything with Colo
Stuart79(Quote)
don’t agree with the blame being put at Colo’s door. For me they were doing zonal marking and it was in Mbemba’s area. Mbemba’s to blame. No challenge
Toby Le Rhone(Quote)
Souness just said if we had a game plan McClaren wouldn’t change it just for being one down. We haven’t got a game plan!
Stuart79(Quote)
Well the lads in the studio are saying it’s colo’s fault and as ex pro’s they should know.
kimtoon(Quote)
Oh great, watch em score from this fk
kimtoon(Quote)
let off
kimtoon(Quote)
Colo has been a great help over the year but u can’t escape the fact, He’s also been a hindrance for a couple of year now
Ice pup(Quote)
Cracking piece says everything about this club..
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/sport/football/Premiership/article1644241.ece
Stuart79(Quote)
Get fucking Cisse off! He’s a bang if ****.
Stuart79(Quote)
But finally we have some effort
Stuart79(Quote)
that was our best chance gone begging
kimtoon(Quote)
Well done Elliot
kimtoon(Quote)
Colo missed a header that could of caused a world of sh!te for us .. Liability
Ice pup(Quote)
Anyone else fancy stealing a draw
Ice pup(Quote)
Souness…what a great manager he was for us…
Anyway, better this half so far. Putting some decent passes together and movement is better. Shame for the **** control by Cisse in the box but then nearly scored. Would be nice to have a shot on target…
ToonDarnSarf(Quote)
That’s what really annoys me about Sissoko, you see him charging forward like that, with a good pass at the end of it, the next minute he could not give a toss
ash1001(Quote)
Can’t argue on that
Ice pup(Quote)
Janmaat can’t do a decent throw in.
Groucho(Quote)
I feel sorry for any strikers in our team. What service do they get?
Stuart79(Quote)
Long ball ****! Worse than watching Pardews long ball **** this
Stuart79(Quote)
Ash, that’s what I mean he’s a fairweather player who is capable of changing a game if only he’d be consistent .
kimtoon(Quote)
Mid field are poor as far as generating attacking moves is concerned
ash1001(Quote)
Who is threatening from the centre though? Seems nobody.
The plan seems to be to attack down the wings mostly. So why isn’t Mitrovic playing?
Confused by the tactics…
ToonDarnSarf(Quote)
Stu, as the lads in the studio said it’s what you would see in the lower divisions. Very basic with no one comfortable playing it out from the back. Thing is there have been games where we’ve looked much more assured on the ball but we have now lost so many that confidence in ability is lost.
kimtoon(Quote)
TDS – We have two centre midfielders who get dizzy when they go past the half way line. Sits pitiful. Our centre midfielders are the cause of most of our problems.
Stuart79(Quote)
Perez for De Jong
kimtoon(Quote)
Nitro and Perez must be really sick, if they cannot get on the field
ash1001(Quote)
Cisse stayed on wtf
Ice pup(Quote)
Ok…time for Perez to provide link between midfield and attack…I hope…
ToonDarnSarf(Quote)
Perez on and Cisse survives
ash1001(Quote)
Poor cross Sissoko, wasted chance
kimtoon(Quote)
Really want Mitro on
kimtoon(Quote)
IF and I mean IF we ud to take a positive I’d say a top 5 club haven’t really worried us either
Ice pup(Quote)
No threat through the middle. That’s because all or threats are pushed wide and are out of the game. Super stuff, Steve.
Stuart79(Quote)
Mitro coming on
kimtoon(Quote)
at least mitro try’s Kim
Ice pup(Quote)
STUART
Because we have 3 defensive midfielders in Colback, Anita and Tiote. Yet Sissoko and Gini are on the wing leaving now Thauvin on the bench. I’d rather see Mitrovic instead of Cisse, Thauvin on the wing and Gini or Sissoko as attacking mid. But I think we tried things like that earlier in the season and it didn’t work either…
ToonDarnSarf(Quote)
****** fk 🙄
kimtoon(Quote)
Might not of worked but makes more sense than this shambles it reads well it can’t bloody hurt stu
Ice pup(Quote)
Here we go
Ice pup(Quote)
right lets see what ayoze and mitro can do
kimtoon(Quote)
Now then. Do we have someone who can beat the first man and find Mitro’s heed?
Stuart79(Quote)
If they do 1 thing it’s 100 % more than that clown disgracing the number 9 shirt
Ice pup(Quote)
Get in! God I’m good! Although not his head
Stuart79(Quote)
Getinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
kimtoon(Quote)
Mitro mitro man
kimtoon(Quote)
Put that in ya fooking pipe
Ice pup(Quote)
C’mon you **** heads get us another
kimtoon(Quote)
Hahaha gan on Kim divint mince ya words
Ice pup(Quote)
Hey. Good work by Colo there too! Though not at the end of the pitch we need him mostly!
I did say it was better this half. We just look sharper.
ToonDarnSarf(Quote)
Fair do’s to colo for the knock down 😉
kimtoon(Quote)
TDS, aye play the fecker up front 😆
kimtoon(Quote)
Where the duck are our centre midfielders!!!!! Jesus man! We should have had someone running into that for a tap in
Stuart79(Quote)
I fail to see what tf Perez did wrong there
kimtoon(Quote)
Our boys able to see a system that may work.. Work ethic up 10 fold
Ice pup(Quote)
Pup agree much much better effort this half
kimtoon(Quote)
Right we have missed the chance to win it I reckon so let’s just get a midfielder on, sure it up and see if we can hit them on the break.
Stuart79(Quote)
Rubbish! Just get it in the box
Stuart79(Quote)
*** how has he not scored
kimtoon(Quote)
How the **** has he missed that?!!!
Stuart79(Quote)
Recon they should pull there socks up rearrange there balls and gan for it
Ice pup(Quote)
4 mins extra time 😯 would of expected that first half not this
kimtoon(Quote)
Hahahaha hahahaha
Stuart79(Quote)
getinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
kimtoon(Quote)
there is a god, merry ****** Christmas and goodnight
kimtoon(Quote)