With manager Jose Mourinho making plenty of changes (and plenty of substitutions) for Tottenham Hotspur’s less than comfortable victory over Wycombe Wanderers in the midweek FA Cup clash, Thursday evening sees us take on Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool side.
With both sides having a wobble following our previous meeting, our recent form is better than the reigning title holders and given we have a game in hand on them, we could overtake them and snatch fourth place ourselves with victory.
But that brings us to the obvious question – which Spurs side will turn up for this game and being forced to bring on the likes of Harry Kane on Monday evening, will freshness and fitness come into play with how tight our fixture list has been this season?
It’ll be a tricky game and it’ll no doubt get a bit tasty between Kloop and Mourinho on the touchline, but with decent progress being made in our search for a trip to Wembley and some Cup silverware, this is the ideal game to make a statement about our ongoing Premier League hopes as well.
We’ll have to see if Dele Alli, Ben Davies or Matt Doherty are passed fit for this one, but unless I’ve missed something, there shouldn’t be any other selection concerns.
Naturally, the stronger we can go, the better our chances…
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Both teams are ripe for the taking, no? This is a strange season in every way, and thisThursday’s match should be no exception. I repeat: both teams are ripe for the taking. I’d trade managers straight up, though.
TK …. I agree, I think they’ll both lose. : – ) But Spurs will lose a bit less than Pool.
Attack Attack Attack, they are weak and wounded, don’t sit back and give their from 3 a sniff. Pressure on now.
Danny thanks for the thread
We’ll if any team is going to make a come back for some reason it’s usually against us.
Liverpool, one of the luckiest teams I’ve ever seen decision wise, right up there with ManU
They get the bounce of the ball every time.
Hopefully our luck will hold on Thursday, I just got a feeling we’ll turn them over.
Provided we don’t give away silly fouls, and the ref takes his red shirt off.
COYS.
Its not worth even trying to predict results this season. Not long ago Liverpool looked like they were going to run away with the title, City started the season in crisis mode. On current form the title is a three way fight between City, United and West Ham. But next week it could all be different. All we can do is try to win each game and see what happens.
It doesn’t surprise me at all to see City on top right now… They started the season slow but have never looked to me to be in crisis. They have up to now only lost just the 2 PL matches.
I don’t see WHU staying in the top 4. But I think Leicester might still be there or close at the end of the season.
But my pick for the top 4 finishers will be City, MU, Pool and Spurs. I can see City being Champions but 2nd, 3rd and 4th being anyone’s guess.
We’re only just half-way through it and I think that the season will continue to surprise us at times but that the ‘Usual Suspects’ of recent seasons, will all be there or thereabouts at the end of it all. With the Foxes and Everton maybe/possibly, being the exceptions in all this. And, I can’t even see Chelsea completely out of a top 4 challenge just yet, despite their recent poor form. And I would’ve said the same, even if Lampard hadn’t been fired.
My bias though will have me suggest that the dark horses for being City’s main competition for the title when nearing the end, will be Spurs!
But, first we need to beat Liverpool.
However, I’m not at all deceived by Pools recent poor form and this match is sure to be a tough one. I watched them in the FA cup versus MU and although they lost, I thought they played well and were looking dangerous again…..
I predict a Spurs win, but I’m certainly not over-confident of it…….. Not today, anyway. 😉
We always appear to have problems against teams who are in poor form or who haven’t scored many goals . We ought to get a result against these teams but often bottle it .
Although they have had a string of poor results and we ought to win I have a feeling that that might not be the case tomorrow esp with some of the play I saw from them vs Man U .
In football as in many other asoects of life you make your own luck and I do not begrudge Liverpool’s perceived luck in winning matches . Klopp always plays an offensive game and as such gets the rewards . I really enjoy watching them play .
As usual I hope I am wrong and would dearly love to win well even if Mourinho plays his negative football . Perhaps pragmatism rules and we get that win ?
We have to take a minimum of 1 point from this game, that probably doesn’t sound very positive but our recent record against the bindippers isn’t great. I actually think we are capable of beating them but only if the players show some passion and desire to win. If Tanguy continues in the form he showed in his cameo on Monday who knows what is possible!
Thanks for the thread Danny.
As every game my wish is….WIN!
Not going to go through everything we already know, except it will be a tough game.
Those upstarts Wham are above us at the mo, we do have 2 games in hand, so a win tomorrow for me is imperative, simple, even ifs just to put Wham back where they belong, below us lol!
I asked a mate, who is a Wham fan, if he can handle the nose bleeds he must be having because of height, cannot write his response lol! COYs
This is our house
This is our backyard
This is our party
Liverpool are invited
But we dictate the music
We own the dance floor
Jose is the DJ
1st song is a slow dance.
Just been checking through our upcoming fixtures, it surely can’t be right that we have to play Chelsea at 8:00pm on Thursday 4th Feb and then play WBA at 3:00pm on Saturday 6th!
Should have added, at least both of our games are at home but Chelsea also play on Saturday at the same time but have to travel to Sheffield for their game!
TQ …. It’s that kind of season, mate.
I know Geof but that is just silly when the Thursday game is only scheduled to please the broadcasters.
Both WBA and Sheffield play each other as it happend on Tuesday 2nd so have 48 hours more recovery time, that’s just unfair.
And after WBA, 4 days later we play Everton in the cup and then just 3 days after that , we play City in the PL. 5 days later it’s Wolfsberg… And so on…
The upside is that we will only continue to be so busy because of still being in all 3 cup comps and a good PL position.
It will only get less busy if we are then knocked out of the 2 cups… Swings n Things!
Yep! HT, swings n bloody roundabouts, COYS
Yes, you are right in respect of us still being in all competitions but, with the crazy schedules that the pandemic has placed on us, is there a danger we might spread ourselves too thinly and consequently fail on all fronts?
I think my main point is the fairness of the scheduling where one team has a relatively far bigger recovery time which has to be an unfair advantage.
I think the answer is better squad rotation, it clearly isn’t working when Jose makes wholesale changes so he has to find a way of using the squad players more often and more sparingly in order to rest the regular starters.
Park the bus, park the bus Tottenham Hotspur.
Should we go at Liverpool – they are low in confidence – or should we sit back and try to frustrate them in the hope of scoring with the handful of attacks we have.
Whatever the right approach is, we all know what Jose will do. Defend, defend, defend.
People have said that the pressure is on Liverpool but now that there is an expectation that we could actually beat the champions pressure is on us as well. And we know how well Spurs cope with pressure. Look what happened when we went top of the league. Spursy or what?
While still being in four competitions is a positive in one way it can pretty quickly become a negative. Under Poch we were specialists at playing a lot of matches without actually winning anything, the extra games draining our players mentally and physically. Wolves did the same thing last season. The EFL cup may be the least important competition of the season but we are in the final and I would love to win so that whatever happened after that we would finish the season with something. I know people like to pretend playing twice a week every week doesn’t have an impact, but it does. Its a test of how strong each team’s squads are and how well they are managed, something Poch didn’t do particularly well. The jury is out on just how good our squad is, we’ll find out. When Leicester won the title they had the huge advantage of not being in Europe, it wouldn’t surprise me if West Ham did a lot better this time than people expect for the same reason.