Match Thread: Tottenham v Aston Villa

Eire-Dearg

Line-ups:

Tottenham Gomes, Bale, Dawson, Corluka, King, Bentley, Huddlestone, Palacios, Modric, Crouch, Defoe

Substitutes Alnwick, Kaboul, Bassong, Walker, Jenas, Kranjcar, Gudjohnsen

Aston Villa Friedel, L Young, Dunne, Cuellar, Collins, Downing, A Young, Milner, Petrov, Agbonlahor, Heskey

Substitutes Guzan, Davies, Beye, Sidwell, Delph, Carew, Delfouneso

Really looking forward to this, after Liverpool's win and City's loss today this game will put another twist in the tale in the race for fourth.

That_Guy

Draw for me.

manutd

2-2 draw for me

everdead.ie

Spurs hopefully
COYS

shoutman

Heart says Villa, head says spurs. Final score: 12-9 villa.

everdead.ie

shoutman wrote: »

Heart says Villa, head says spurs. Final score: 12-9 villa.

Nah 10-4 spurs

Just on ESPN O'Neill hasn't beaten a Redknapp side 12 games

citytillidie

Martin O'Neill seems to be obsessed with the Liverpool game after Christmas cant get it out of his system

everdead.ie

Modric could of done a bit more with that

Draw please Bob

citytillidie

citytillidie wrote: »

Martin O'Neill seems to be obsessed with the Liverpool game after Christmas cant get it out of his system

Why, whats he doing?

I'm intrigued.

fullstop

Anybody got a stream?

daithijjj

fullstop wrote: »

Anybody got a stream?

http://fe33er.webs.com/stream1/index.html

If that goes down, check a few of these. (if you have sopcast paste this to the address bar)

sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/39970

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=63897&part=sports

citytillidie

rarnes1 wrote: »

Why, whats he doing?

I'm intrigued.

He seemed to mention it in every sentence in the pre match interview

citytillidie

citytillidie wrote: »

He seemed to mention it in every sentence in the pre match interview

Jaysus, it was only one result. Hardly a season breaker.

dannydiamond

Is the game any good lads, Worth tuning in for the second half?

citytillidie

rarnes1 wrote: »

Jaysus, it was only one result. Hardly a season breaker.

Kept saying losing to Liverpool in the 94th min

everdead.ie

0-0 at the mo surely cant stay like that tho tottenham on top at the moment

shoutman

Peno?

therokerroar

Friedel has been excellent for Villa again today, I can't get why people on this forum rate Given so far ahead of him. Well actually, I do know why :rolleyes:

Eire-Dearg

I'll take that. Staying where we belong. Great day for Liverpool.

JPA

shoutman wrote: »

Peno?

Would have been soft. Finishes 0-0, Villa defended like their lives depended on it. Didn't offer much going forward. I would have taken the draw so I'm pleased, I suppose.

everdead.ie

That was a load of balls typical villa always harassing and closing down thought Modric was MOM it's a pity he didnt hit his shot better at the start tho. Think it was a peno too.(we prob would of missed it tho)

Headshot

what a weekend for Liverpool

shoutman

Under huge pressure towards the end there, take the point, but 3 points would of been huge for either side. Only one side looked like winning today though.

JPA

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

I'll take that. Staying where we belong. Great day for Liverpool.

At least you know your level!

JPA

everdead.ie wrote: »

That was a load of balls typical villa always harassing and closing down thought Modric was MOM it's a pity he didnt hit his shot better at the start tho. Think it was a peno too.(we prob would of missed it tho)

Richard Dunne was the clear MOTM. Modric? Seriously? I thought Bentley, Bale and King were maybe Spurs best players.

Eire-Dearg

Headshot wrote: »

what a weekend for Liverpool

Very much so. They only thing that has me slightly worried are City's two games in hands, if they win them they're in the driving seat again. Let's hope they can slip up a few more times in the next few weeks.

everdead.ie

Brad Fiedel and Dunne are very modest

SlickRic

an awesome day for Liverpool.

i really don't know how Spurs didn't score though.

JPA

everdead.ie wrote: »

Brad Fiedel and Dunne are very modest

What did they say?

therokerroar

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

I'll take that. Staying where we belong. Great day for Liverpool.

Happy with being 4th? Surprising from so called 'Title Challengers'.

everdead.ie

JPA wrote: »

What did they say?

They Both said tottenham are very good etc and they hoped they had done enough to earn there point and Dunne said at the time I thought it was a penalty and both very much said we just want to put points on the board etc both came across very well.

A Primal Nut

JPA wrote: »

What did they say?

Dunne admitted it was a penalty. He was great today.

Eire-Dearg

therokerroar wrote: »

Happy with being 4th? Surprising from so called 'Title Challengers'.

4th is our aim this season, if you didn't know.

flahavaj

therokerroar wrote: »

Happy with being 4th? Surprising from so called 'Title Challengers'.

Yawn, I thought we'd discussed this and concluded you'd try a bit harder?

SlickRic

therokerroar wrote: »

Happy with being 4th? Surprising from so called 'Title Challengers'.

we're not 'happy' per se.

but you adjust your aims as your season pans out.

it does not mean Liverpool fans are happy in the long run with being 'only' 4th.

JPA

everdead.ie wrote: »

They Both said tottenham are very good etc and they hoped they had done enough to earn there point and Dunne said at the time I thought it was a penalty and both very much said we just want to put points on the board etc both came across very well.

I don't think it was a penalty. Defoe was going down without the touch from Petrov. I'm not saying it was a dive, just that he was already going down. IMO.

copacetic

surprised all the pudits (and even dunne) are saying that was a definite peno for defoe. Does everyone think that?

I thought he saw petrov sticking his leg out and dived, looked like petrov pulled his leg back before he even touched him? The leg he would have got was in mid air and defoe just didn't put it back down, throwing it out from underneath him instead.

Eire-Dearg

Looked like he was already in mid-flight when he got kicked and was on the way down with or without getting touched.

therecklessone

copacetic wrote: »

surprised all the pudits (and even dunne) are saying that was a definite peno for defoe. Does everyone think that?

I thought he saw petrov sticking his leg out and dived, looked like petrov pulled his leg back before he even touched him? The leg he would have got was in mid air and defoe just didn't put it back down, throwing it out from underneath him instead.

I don't think it was a peno.

MementoMori

Liverpool the big winners from this game.

Will be interesting to see how these two kick on from here, once Villa have Utd out of the way next, their fixtures look that bit easier. As for Spurs got a reasonable enough run until April when they play Arsenal, Chelsea and Utd.