Spurs v Crystal Palace

Devo from Dublin

Ok, A must win game and one which i think we will comfortably.
-1 @ 1/1
-2 @ 11/4...NAP!
Palaces mini revival i reckon is over, well especially away from home.
Longing for Soldado to start banging in the goals, so i reckon he'll notch one or two in this one...
Might even put him as captain in my FF!!

5-0 to Spurs.

Lloris

Walker
Dawson
Chriches
Rose

Lennon
Dembele
Bentaleb

Eriksen

Adebayor
Soldado.

Subs

Fredricks
Freyers
Kane
Sandro
Townsend
Capoue
Devlin.

Leinstersqspur

Devo from Dublin wrote: »

Ok, A must win game and one which i think we will comfortably.
-1 @ 1/1
-2 @ 11/4...NAP!
Palaces mini revival i reckon is over, well especially away from home.

-2 @ 11/4 NAP?

In their last four Palace beat Villa away 1-0, lost 1-0 at the Etihad, drew 1-1 at home to Norwich and won 2-0 away to West Brom.

Based on our sloppy defence of late I'd go with Tottenham to win and both teams to score @ 9/4.

Sugarlumps

You may need to rethink the 5-0 scoreline. Pulis will have them set up solidly, and very hard to break down. I expect a drab affair until we score, if we score. I'd also start Townsend instead of Eriksen.

GS11

I hope lamela gets some game time, I'd have Eriksen b4 townsend, we are not very good at bashing the door in, lets try and unlock it instead.

Dublin Spur

10 - 0

SuprSi

Both Eriksen and Townsend are so bloody frustrating. They could be brilliant, but fail to impact most games. Townsend tries too hard doing the same thing and I just can't believe how bad he is at shooting, whereas Eriksen (Man U aside) has done very little all season.

Sandro is back in training so I'd have him and Dembele in the middle with Lennon and Townsend, with the latter under strict instructions to get down the wing and cross the ball, which to be fair he had been doing more of before his injury.

Sugarlumps

SuprSi wrote: »

Both Eriksen and Townsend are so bloody frustrating. They could be brilliant, but fail to impact most games. Townsend tries too hard doing the same thing and I just can't believe how bad he is at shooting, whereas Eriksen (Man U aside) has done very little all season.

Sandro is back in training so I'd have him and Dembele in the middle with Lennon and Townsend, with the latter under strict instructions to get down the wing and cross the ball, which to be fair he had been doing more of before his injury.

It amazes me how this isn't pointed this out to Townsend, if he just stuck to this task then he'd be have great success. He unlike Lennon can deliver crosses consistently.

DubPerryman

Devo from Dublin wrote: »

Lloris

Walker
Dawson
Chriches
Rose

Lennon
Dembele
Bentaleb

Eriksen

Adebayor
Soldado.

Subs

Fredricks
Freyers
Kane
Sandro
Townsend
Capoue
Devlin.

Bentaleb is out, apparently. Devlin in maybe??

yiddo59

4-0 Soldado hatrick

Hatch99

DubPerryman wrote: »

Bentaleb is out, apparently. Devlin in maybe??

Haha pat devlin

Glebee

yiddo59 wrote: »

4-0 Soldado hatrick

Were hardly going to get 3 penaltys are we. Boom Boom:D

tippspur

Every game now it's ''this is the one Soldado will start banging them in'':rolleyes: ,and we're still waiting.hopefully one day we'll be right.

jobeenfitz

tippspur wrote: »

Every game now it's ''this is the one Soldado will start banging them in'':rolleyes: ,and we're still waiting.hopefully one day we'll be right.

We have to belileve. How could we sleep if we thought we are dependent on Ade.

Its all opinion but there was a problem at start of season with lack of quality service and since it may be a confidence issue.

Time will tell.

everdead.ie

Lamela, Sandro and Townsend back from injury all three to start from the bench Townsend definetly not my favourite player would prefer Lamela to come on instead does more work defensively and actually gets assists even if he isn't a "constant threat" by running at players the whole time he's more intelligent with the ball I think.

DubPerryman

For all the Soldado doubters, I think the majority of us are getting behind Soldado because we bitched and moaned for the last three seasons about not having a striker. Then the club went out and got Soldado for a club record fee, so we can't moan any more. He has to work!!

Soldado for the hat-trick!

We should all lump (a tenner) on it - it's like the film Elf, if we all spread 'Soldado cheer' it'll happen!

COYS!

Ormus

He definitely wasn't getting enough service but he definitely is now.

However, even though he isn't hitting the target, he looks a lot more involved. Someone used a stat of Suarez, and there is no comparison between them as players, but it can happen that a striker is missing the target by small margins, and with a bit of confidence, all of those shots can start hitting the target.

He just needs to get his eye in and the confidence will soar and he'll start burying it.

On the other hand, it's possible that he won't get the breaks and the confidence will never flow until he's back in Spain with his tail between his legs. Hope that doesn't happen.

SuprSi

Agreed, he's definitely getting more involved and also getting more chances now. He's had more than a handful of attempts that he should at least have hit the target with so at least that's promising, but he needs to start putting them away or at least making the keeper work.

DubPerryman

This won't be easy. Crystal Palace are just a shade worse than the Tony Pulis Stoke team that came to The Lane and won.

GS11

Agreed, Pulis will have them set up well, would love to see Eriksen, lamela and lennon behind soldado

Devo from Dublin

Not a hope of Palace getting anything tomorrow except a spanking...
#inDevowetrust.

Hatch99

Devo from Dublin wrote: »

Not a hope of Palace getting anything tomorrow except a spanking...
#inDevowetrust.

#kissofdeath

irishmover

Just got home to Ireland yesterday. Was a nose hair away from going to this game with my dad but decided against it as I've had a lot of bills the past couple months and then with Jetlag aswell it was unfortunately a no brainer.

Would love a win but will be gutted if they slaughter them and Lamela scores a hat trick or something... Purely because I decided against going!

Emoran

irishmover wrote: »

Just got home to Ireland yesterday. Was a nose hair away from going to this game with my dad but decided against it as I've had a lot of bills the past couple months and then with Jetlag aswell it was unfortunately a no brainer.

Would love a win but will be gutted if they slaughter them and Lamela scores a hat trick or something... Purely because I decided against going!

On the way to the airport for it now, if Lamella doesn't score a hatrick even if he's not in the squad I'm holding you to blame for this

It's on setanta too later on as far as I know for any of you interested

Glebee

Ok so surely Palace are going to go all out defend and hit Spurs on the break as has been done so many times before at the lane. Time to see have we learned any new tricks with unlocking defences. My guess is 2-1 to Tottenham with Palace getting a late goal and pushing for an equaliser at the death.

KingdomYid

Emoran wrote: »

On the way to the airport for it now, if Lamella doesn't score a hatrick even if he's not in the squad I'm holding you to blame for this

It's on setanta too later on as far as I know for any of you interested

Enjoy it mate and say hello to all in the Volunteer

Lightbulb Sun

Team v Palace - Lloris; Walker, Chiriches, Dawson, Rose; Lennon, Bentaleb, Dembele, Eriksen; Adebayor, Soldado.

If we are serious about Champions League next season, we need to be beating teams like Crystal Palace by two to three goals, even with our long injury list. It must be expected that they will defend in numbers, though this cannot be an excuse, we must show the ability to break them down and score at least a couple of goals.

SuprSi

Peno really badly missed by Palace after a clumsy tackle by Walker or Dembele

Sugarlumps

Fock me, what a howler.

davycc

palace missed a peno? i cant watch the game sadly got go-karting to do

galwayjohn89

SuprSi wrote: »

Peno really badly missed by Palace after a clumsy tackle by Walker or Dembele

Was Dembele