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*** Tottenham Hotspur v Bodo/Glimt *** Semi final , 1st leg 1/5/25.

Heung-Min Son has been ruled out of Thursday night's UEFA Europa League semi-final, first leg encounter against FK Bodo/Glimt at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Our skipper continues his recovery from the foot injury that has kept him out for our last four fixtures, which includes the 1-0 win in the quarter-final, second leg at Eintracht Frankfurt in the previous round.

Sonny missed our trip to Liverpool last time out on Sunday, and Ange Postecoglou has today (30 April) reported that it is too soon for the forward to play his part in the first leg against our Norwegian opponent.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Ange said: "He won't feature tomorrow night. He's out training but he's still separate from the group. He's improving so hopefully we can get him back soon."
 
Mikey10 said:
Lawrie McMenemy was England Assistant Manager.

Just let that sink in.
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No idea who that even is. I was six when I saw that clip on the telly. I remember Gazza was in a song, Fog on the tyne (Saudi Sportswashing Machine song surely?), and my dad loved it and sang it all the time.

Anyway - we really really should win by quite a margin tomorrow. I just hope we don't conceded one within the first few minutes. Then we'll be fine.
 
I agree with Norwegian media, If Bodø dont lose with more that 3 goals, the Bodø has every chance of going to the final. So its important that we dont change is down of we are 2 up
 
We have to win by 3 goals minimum to progress imo.
Don't fancy our chances over there on an artificial pitch.
Going for a 4-0 win tomorrow and a 2-1 defeat in the 2nd leg.
 
johnola said:
Are you saying he shouldn’t have been? He was a decent bloke and his Southampton team were class - won the fa cup, lost in the league cup final and came second to Liverpool in the league.
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Have you ever watched the GrahamTaylor documentary The Impossible Job? Taylor (another lovely man, and a good club manager) was massively out of his depth at international level - but McMenemy was on a different, even more awful, level. His contributions on the bench seemed to mostly involve banging on the plastic roof of the dugout while shouting “Ha’way the lads!”, staring into space, and occasionally saying, “Yes boss.”

As a Northern Ireland fan he was a complete disaster as our manager. One of those who was a dinosaur by the mid-80s at the latest, and who certainly didn’t have the managerial skills to be operating at international level imo.
 
markysimmo said:
Heung-Min Son has been ruled out of Thursday night's UEFA Europa League semi-final, first leg encounter against FK Bodo/Glimt at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Our skipper continues his recovery from the foot injury that has kept him out for our last four fixtures, which includes the 1-0 win in the quarter-final, second leg at Eintracht Frankfurt in the previous round.

Sonny missed our trip to Liverpool last time out on Sunday, and Ange Postecoglou has today (30 April) reported that it is too soon for the forward to play his part in the first leg against our Norwegian opponent.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Ange said: "He won't feature tomorrow night. He's out training but he's still separate from the group. He's improving so hopefully we can get him back soon."
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Shame, we need all our players fit for selection and the longer these breaks take, the longer it takes to get match fit. Just look at how long it's taking Kulu.

Have a feeling Tel could do a Moura though. Sonny who? :)
 
treepits said:
I’m all for a bit of pessimism but if we can go to Frankfurt and get a result, we can go to bodo and do the same
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I bet Bodø would run over Frankfurt, Ive seen every game of Bodø, I live north in Norway. And they will run in atack with everyone and they will run in defence with everyone… and reports from training today is that Bodø loved the pit, they never seen a so hard gras pit… someone said they now understood why Spurs have so many injuries in the season
 
All the pressure is on Spurs. There are virtually no positive result for us. Anything other than a 3+ goal win will be seen as a bad result. Not because we absolutely should steam roll them, but because people think we should, especially with half their first XI out. But they're still capable of hurting us, and we're perfectly capable of shooting ourselves in the foot.

They have absolutely nothing to lose, and might surprise a few. It's being presented as a fairytale story, but they haven't fluked they're way here. They're here on merit.

I honestly have no idea how it will pan out. If we're on it, we should beat them, but I'm not super confident.
 
As a member and supporter of both clubs, my feeling is that I'm exited on behalf of Glimt, and very nervous on behalf of Spurs.
 
nattenskonge said:
I bet Bodø would run over Frankfurt, Ive seen every game of Bodø, I live north in Norway. And they will run in atack with everyone and they will run in defence with everyone… and reports from training today is that Bodø loved the pit, they never seen a so hard gras pit… someone said they now understood why Spurs have so many injuries in the season
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Pitch, not pit mate. Did they really say it was particularly hard? Surely all top level grass pitches are similarly hard.
 
treepits said:
I’m all for a bit of pessimism but if we can go to Frankfurt and get a result, we can go to bodo and do the same
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They're very good at home.
It's a difficult transition from grass to artificial pitches and we couldn't even beat Tamworth on one in normal time.
 
Mikey10 said:
Have you ever watched the GrahamTaylor documentary The Impossible Job? Taylor (another lovely man, and a good club manager) was massively out of his depth at international level - but McMenemy was on a different, even more awful, level. His contributions on the bench seemed to mostly involve banging on the plastic roof of the dugout while shouting “Ha’way the lads!”, staring into space, and occasionally saying, “Yes boss.”

As a Northern Ireland fan he was a complete disaster as our manager. One of those who was a dinosaur by the mid-80s at the latest, and who certainly didn’t have the managerial skills to be operating at international level imo.
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Phil Neal. A type of tree-generated fruit.
 
We need to score. I'd go:

Vic
Spence, VDV, Romero, Udogie
Bentancur, Bergvall, Maddison
Kulusevski, Solanke, Odobert

Johnson will probably start though, and some other weird decision like Bissouma on or Davies on the left back or something.

I think we will do them. Just get the first goal relatively early and keep going. If we lose tomorrow we really don't deserve to be in the final. If we give it 100% from the beginning - we will win. We'll do it. I don't expect a drubbing, but would happily take a 2 or 3 goal lead. I think we may need a 3 goal lead.
 
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