Carling Cup Semi-Final Leg 2 - Spurs vs Arsenal

cson

Arsenal squad to face Tottenham:

2 Abou DIABY
3 Bacary SAGNA
4 Cesc FABREGAS
9 EDUARDO
10 William GALLAS
13 Alexander HLEB
15 DENILSON
16 Mathieu FLAMINI
19 GILBERTO
21 Lukasz FABIANSKI (GK)
25 Emmanuel ADEBAYOR
26 Nicklas BENDTNER
30 Armand TRAORE
31 Justin HOYTE
32 Theo WALCOTT
40 Vito MANNONE (GK)

Spurs News
Steed Malbranque comes back into the reckoning for Tuesday night's Carling Cup semi-final, second leg against Arsenal at the Lane.The midfielder was suspended for Saturday's 2-0 win against Sunderland after accumulating five yellow cards.Darren Bent's knee problem is improving but he's not yet ready to return. "Darren's training again and worked well on Monday," reported coach Gus Poyet. "It was a medial ligament problem, so you have to be careful with the recovery. He's very close but not quite ready yet." Longer-term injuries Gareth Bale (foot), Anthony Gardner (ankle) and Benoit Assou-Ekotto (knee) remain out.

Mad_Max

I really hope spurs win here and everton tomorrow.

Be refreshing to see a different final.

Pepe LeFrits

Pretty decent Arsenal squad, still think Spurs will win though.

PHB

Yeh quite a solid Arsenal team, gona be a great match, really looking forward to it

KdjaCL

1-0 spurs no idea who scored just turned it on and BBC being slow.


edit jenas


kdjac

SuprSi

Spurs 1 up already, what a start!!

Peyton Manning

Could someone please remind me what the score was in the first leg?

WhiteWashMan

1-1 and jenas scored again.
Spurs 'should' win, but in no way do i see this squad as a 'second' team.
This arsenal team would beat 3/4 of the premier league and draw against the others on their day. Ive made the mistake of thinking it would be an 'easy' win before, and been very disappointed.
good footballing team, I just hope they dont do it to spurs today

KdjaCL

Archimedes wrote: »

Could someone please remind me what the score was in the first leg?

1-1


kdjac

Peyton Manning

Cheers fellas.

Nailz

2-0 OG Bentner...

Peyton Manning

Arsenal now need 3, yes?

Edit: My bad, they need 2. Thread title lead me to believe this was at the Emirates...

KdjaCL

should be 3 :eek:

Berb off the post.

decent game tbh wasnt expecting it be good.


kdjac

Nailz

No... I don't think the Carling Cup Semis don't run on away goals.

KdjaCL

Archimedes wrote: »

Arsenal now need 3, yes?

Edit: My bad, they need 2. Thread title lead me to believe this was at the Emirates...

kdjac

county

Nailz wrote: »

No... I don't think the Carling Cup Semis don't run on away goals.

after ET they do

Nailz

Yeah I know, but we're never goin' to see penalties now! That rule is gay!

Nailz

3-0 Keane!

county

game over 3-0

KdjaCL

county wrote: »

game over 3-0

aww dont say that theres **** all else on tv.


kdjac

Nailz

Yep, Desprate Housewives will be on on RTE tonight at 10 if you wanna watch?!?

KdjaCL

4-0



still not game over


kdjac

Nailz

4-0 Unbe-fuckin'-lieveble!

county

bit of a spanking all right for the gunners

KdjaCL

4-1 adebayor with a nice finish.

the comeback is on, extra time come on



kdjac

Nailz

4-1, your Togo stikers' name in which I can't spell...

county

come back anyone?4-1

Nailz

Well if Leeds can score 4 goals in 15 minutes last season, The Arse can score 3 in 20... I hope not!

jackdaw

I can't believe this, when i checked the score i thought the BBC website was hacked!!

great for Spurs !!!

Nailz

Well if it was hacked the Spurs fan who done it would look like some fuckin' eejit if they came back...

jesus_thats_gre

crisis

KdjaCL

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

crisis

big time only conceded 1 goal in 80 minutes of play, spurs players will be calling themselves defenders now!!!!!!



kdjac

Peyton Manning

Gallas and Bendtner going head to head!

county

5-1:eek:

Nailz

They are celebrating as if they won the Champions League, if that was United they'd celebrate as if they won an unimportant (don't get me wrong they are, just nothing to do with winning it)Premier League fixture.

PHB

I really really enjoyed that game, especially as I was watching it next to a die hard Arsenal fan

How can you criticise Spurs for celebrating like they won the CL, it's an amazing achievement to get to the League Cup final this year.

Pepe LeFrits

My only morsel of pleasure from that was texting WhiteWashMan (who wasn't able to catch the game) to tell him that Arsenal had pulled it back to 4-4... that was before the fifth goal.

The back 5 plus Gilberto were unbelievably bad tonight. Fair play to Spurs, they were much more clinical than usual.

Villain

Great game by Spurs its a pity Arsenal didn't play their full strength team, could have been a great game.

Dave!

Here's hoping their confidence takes a bit of a hit after this

OPENROAD

DaveMcG wrote: »

Here's hoping their confidence takes a bit of a hit after this

Keep dreaming, we'll be back.

Melion

Nailz wrote: »

They are celebrating as if they won the Champions League, if that was United they'd celebrate as if they won an unimportant (don't get me wrong they are, just nothing to do with winning it)Premier League fixture.

They've just walloped their greatest rivals in the semi-final of a cup after not beating them for 9 years. Whats wrong with them celebrating?

OPENROAD

Melion wrote: »

They've just walloped their greatest rivals in the semi-final of a cup after not beating them for 9 years. Whats wrong with them celebrating?

True they will be crying in the final.

cson

Nailz wrote: »

They are celebrating as if they won the Champions League, if that was United they'd celebrate as if they won an unimportant (don't get me wrong they are, just nothing to do with winning it)Premier League fixture.

Lets just put this into context here; United have won a lot more than Spurs in the last few years, they're fully entitled to celebrate it - huge win over the old enemy, thrashing them 5-1 and they're in a Cup final for the first time in god knows how many years. Go figure.

Fair play to the Tiny Tots fully deserved, they actually look like a decent side! The way they hunted down Arsenal when they weren't in possession was very impressive and shock horror, they actually put a good defensive performance together. And that was a very decent Arsenal side out tonight. Missing only really Almunia, Rosicky, Toure and Clichy (Bar the subs that came on)

As for Arsenal, I'm becoming doubtful that Walcott will actually make it, he looked lost tonight. And my impression of Nick Bendtner has fallen hugely, he gave up for a finish, Gallas was fully right to bollock him, might cop him on a bit. The defence is very worrying considering only Gael Clichy was missing out of the choice of fit players.

WhiteWashMan

mikeB, I hate you

You have no idea the sense of disappointment and sheer apathy that went through me when Pepe texted me to say it was 4-4.

Great to see us in a final for the first time since 99 i think. I think spurs have every right to celebrate. a win over arsenal and afinals appearance looming, and a squad that at last has the ability and the man with tactical nouse.

i dont care what anyone says, it was a strong arsenal side that played this evening, not their best, but still strong. a team that has beaten blackburn and newcastle on route.

veryvery pleased

Spider_Baby!

Absolutely thrilled, going to the game on Sunday in OT - hopefully this will give us enough confidence to win :P Was one of 2 spurs fans in my pub tonight, never happier!

Running Bing

WhiteWashMan wrote: »

mikeB, I hate you

You have no idea the sense of disappointment and sheer apathy that went through me when Pepe texted me to say it was 4-4.

Great to see us in a final for the first time since 99 i think. I think spurs have every right to celebrate. a win over arsenal and afinals appearance looming, and a squad that at last has the ability and the man with tactical nouse.

i dont care what anyone says, it was a strong arsenal side that played this evening, not their best, but still strong. a team that has beaten blackburn and newcastle on route.

veryvery pleased

We played Blackburn in the CC final in 2003 I think.


Spurs fans deserve a round of applause tonight. The noise even over the television was phenomenal. A real 12th man....even Merson acknowledged it:eek:

As for your point about it being a strong squad, the value of Arsenals players tonight was 150 million and they played 12 full internationals.

OPENROAD

Babybing wrote: »

As for your point about it being a strong squad, the value of Arsenals players tonight was 150 million and they played 12 full internationals.

How do you arrive at that figure.

cson

To echo OPENROAD, I'm very intrigued to find out how you arrived at that figure Babybing?

Arsenals First Team normally would be;
Almunia
Clichy
Gallas
Toure
Sagna
Hleb
Flamini
Fabregas
Rosicky
Adebayor
Van Persie

Tonight, Almunia, Clichy, Toure, Flamini, Rosicky and Van Persie were missing, thats 6 out of 11 first teamers and Fabregas and Adebayor only came on as subs so a quick flick of my calculator reveals that Arsenal had 55% of the first team missing. Just over half. Anyway, this is far too petty tbh and I don't know why I bothered. Fair play to Spurs, good performance, end of.

AckwelFoley

Congrats Spurs.

It doesnt happen alot, but you got a great win against the enemy

Peyton Manning

I think he may have meant 15 million? Maybe Im wrong...

But Spurs can celebrate as much as they want. Arsenal did the same thing when they drew with United at the Emirates earlier this season.

cson

Archimedes wrote: »

I think he may have meant 15 million? Maybe Im wrong...

But Spurs can celebrate as much as they want. Arsenal did the same thing when they drew with United at the Emirates earlier this season.

I think there could be an opening for an Angling Shop around these parts. There's certainly plenty of bait to be had.