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***OMT - SPURS vs Chelsea***

alekaras said:
You can only beat what's in front of you. By the same token, if you look at our games leading up to the City match, you could say the same for us, no?
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We beat teams in the top half of the table though ... so I’d argue no
Doenst mean they haven’t improved but logic says teams naturally get better with more games together and a stable line up
And like us, it helps when you play the lesser sides
 
If we're without Toby and Hugo it's going to be tough for that defense today. I'd also take a draw at the moment, but then again, Chelsea haven't been overly impressive the times I've seen them this season.
 
Spur of the moment said:
Plus Lampard knows exactly how Jose will approach the game, so he can plan accordingly.

Also they've had two days more recovery time from their midweek European game. Things always seem to fall in their favour whenever we go to Stamford Bridge.
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Yes, but for us, Lloris, Dier, Kane, Son, Reguilon, Aurier, Lo Celso, Bergwijn actually didn't play at all mid-week.

Tactics will be interesting, Lampard totally fudged up against the Scum in last year's cup where it was completely obvious how they were going to play, and what tactics it took to beat them (we had done it a week before).

Everyone thinks we will replicate the tactics of playing City, I'm not so sure ..
 
Daisuk said:
If we're without Toby and Hugo it's going to be tough for that defense today. I'd also take a draw at the moment, but then again, Chelsea haven't been overly impressive the times I've seen them this season.
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I'd take a draw too. We'd stay top and keep the unbeaten PL run going. A draw is a worse result for them than us
 
This will be our second big test of the season after ManCity last week. We did well to beat ManCity but Chelsea will be much tougher due to it being a London derby. We did beat them by penalties in the League Cup earlier in the season but we have a poor league record against Chelsea in recent years. We have lost our last 4 league matches to Chelsea. We need to lift our game and be clinical in front of goal if we want to beat them this time. Let's hope we will turn up with the right team and mentality to get the much needed win to help us in our top 4 race.
 
Spur of the moment said:
Plus Lampard knows exactly how Jose will approach the game, so he can plan accordingly.

Also they've had two days more recovery time from their midweek European game. Things always seem to fall in their favour whenever we go to Stamford Bridge.
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None of our starters played on Thursday and we didn't travel, so I would think we'd be more rested, given they played some of their starters.
 
Wish we have all our players fully fit for this match. Too bad Alderweireld and Lamela are out injured. We will badly miss them. This will be a tough and tense match. As always, Chelsea will be fired up against us. Let's hope we will put up a good fight, be tight in defence and make use of our goal scoring chances to beat Chelsea in this match.
 
nayenezgani said:
Glad Bergwijn starts, he was excellent against City.
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Reguilon too, although that's no great surprise. Watching the highlights of Emirates Marketing Project vs Burnley last night, one thing that really stood out was how Mahrez ripped apart the left side of Burnley's defence, again and again. Compare that to how Reggie handled him last week.
 
FatBloke said:
Reguilon too, although that's no great surprise. Watching the highlights of Emirates Marketing Project vs Burnley last night, one thing that really stood out was how Mahrez ripped apart the left side of Burnley's defence, again and again. Compare that to how Reggie handled him last week.
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Which basically makes the Serrano ham motm when you think about it...
 
Still no Dele.
Although I'm not sure who I would leave out of that squad in fairness.
That's a very decent bench to have for later in the game.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
Still no Dele.
Although I'm not sure who I would leave out of that squad in fairness.
That's a very decent bench to have for later in the game.
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It is a decent bench. Jose now picking 3 forwards on the bench is very attacking given that those 3 largely cant play in other positions. Shows that Winks and Dele have fallen a long way in the pecking order that Jose picks are somewhat unbalanced bench rather than picking them
 
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