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***OMT*** Tottenham Hotspur v Swansea City, Sunday 19th January 13:30

City and United have both done the double over Swansea already and Liverpool is the only team to have dropped any points against them by drawing away.
 
glorygloryeze said:
We are 2 points behind Liverpool now. If we lose/draw our games against the lower teams, we get further behind Liverpool assuming they win their games against the same equivalent team (which has been the main reason why they've been up there this season). So by the time we play them a win against them might be not that useful anyway as it might still leave them way ahead of us.

Simple maths: there are far more bottom 10/11 teams and far more points to gain against those side, compared to the number of top 4 challengers and the available points from those games. We need to gain as much as possible against the bottom 10/11 and then go into those games against the top 4 challengers being as close to them as possible.

I'm not underestimating Swansea, but they are in their biggest rut of the season so far and in the bottom 10/11: must win for our top 4 hopes
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I don't know how to make this any clearer. As you say, Liverpool are just two points ahead of us in fourth. If we were playing them this weekend, a win would see us go above them and a loss would see a five point gap open up. While ALL games are important, this would be more of a "must win", particularly towards the end of the season if everything else stays the same. Think Emirates Marketing Project away when we got fourth. Those are the real " must win" games not Swansea away in January.
 
Notmegov said:
any game in August and September(within reason), from then on its all a must win.
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What about home games in August and Sept? And away games against relegation candidates? Would you not say Palace was a must win on the opening day to set the scene for the season? Just playing devils advocate to demonstrate the futility of this description by some.
 
Pirate55 said:
What about home games in August and Sept? And away games against relegation candidates? Would you not say Palace was a must win on the opening day to set the scene for the season? Just playing devils advocate to demonstrate the futility of this description by some.
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That's why i said within reason.
 
Twitter / TalkingTHFC: The Opta Match stats ahead of our trip to Swansea this weekend.
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I'd bet most of those long throws come from Walker. We do seem unable to work a couple of yards space for a short throw in.
 
Pirate55 said:
Just as a matter of interest, which are NOT " must win" PL games?
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as of now games against the top 4 for me. anyone else below we must be able to beat. the odd loss to the lower teams to balance out against the odd win against the top 4. regardless of league or cup games.
 
All games are must win if we want top 4. Otherwise, pick and choose (must be the silliest thing I've ever heard). We gotta muller the swans, keep them on the back foot and hit them with every opportunity, which is doable - unfortunately compound Laudrup's misery, but hey that's the name of the game.
 
Mosquito_Coasting said:
I'd like to see that Lamela guy in action.
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There's a good chance that he wont even make the bench. We pretty much know the team and the bench will include Freidel and 2 defenders (eg Fryers and Naughton) plus Capoue as CM cover. That leaves 3 bench spaces for Holtby, Chadli, Townsend, Kane (as CF cover) or Lamela
 
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