Spurs v Spammers: Match Thread
Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 2:44PM Line-up.
Cudicini
Hutton, Corluka, Bassong, Bale
Lennon, Jenas, Huddlestone, Modric, Van der vaart
Crouch
SUBS: Pletikosa, Palacios, Sandro, Kranjcar, Giovani, Pavlyuchenko, Keane.
Yes, that's Charlie at CB. Shudder. Middle five looks epic, as long as JJ turns up for it. Not short on creation. No King, Bassong or Kaboul. In fact, no defenders on the bench. Not one. Champions League the priority for Harry. Stud Bale at left-back. I'm disappointed. But BAE picked up a knock, so tinkering had to be done. Gallas I guess is still not 100%.
Having also seen the West Ham side; Green, Jacobsen, da Costa, Upson, Gabbidon, Dyer, Parker, Noble, Boa Morte, Obinna, Piquionne - shame on us if we lose this.
Feel free to discuss away in the comments section. If my baby girl allows me, I'll be updating this blog article as the game progresses.
To dare is to do do do...
1st Half
04:47 mins. Free kick outside the box after first proper attack. Ooh set-piece. Let's see how we manage to fudge this one up.
06:36 Close. Off the wall. Corner. Wasted. vdV busy busy busy at the mo.
07:18 Dyer fires wide. From the corner, another effort from West Ham. Biting of the nails.
09:28 Textbook West Ham so far. High tempo, pressure, be it resulting with deflections for corners. Need to try and put the olde studs on ball and take the pace out of it.
10:55 CC saving a shot, not masterful stopping. All West Ham. Sigh.
12:24 Bale forward. Stopped. WH counter. Boa Morta turning past Hutton. Comes to nothing, but still, this is getting a tad silly now.
14:27 Jenas with a shot. Green saves. First effort. Still have yet to have a patch of possession on this game yet.
15:23 Dyer on fire. Cheeky bid?
16:10 That midfield five just can't get hold of it at the moment. I guess with no defensive/holding midfielder in there, it's proving nigh impossible at the moment to do much other than the odd cameo run forward. Hammers fans with the Oles. Statue being built as I type outside the ground.
20 minute mark - Not a lot to say other than West Ham have been dominant, without exactly carving us up, but showing far more positivity in attack, earning corners and asking questions. We've don't little in response, be it a free-kick from vdV and the Jenas shot (as I type another vdV shot, saved well by Green). Huddlestone quiet as a mouse. All a bit dis-jointed.
22:00 Another leftie from vdV. Wide.
27:11 Starting to hold the ball a bit better. Still, our players looked bored.
29:00 1-0 West Ham. Yay.
31:15 So, have we gone and lost that away day magic from last season? We look poor, disinterested, incapable of taking the game by the scruff.
33:23 Great defending for the goal by the way. Forgot to mention that.
34:50 Parker into the box, good tackle from Charlie. This is pretty shit, no?
35:50 Just like watching Barca at the moment.
38:00 Free-kick, cross in, comes to nothing but the ball gets back onto the wing, crossed back in, Moddle with the shot, SuperMan Green to the rescue, save onto the woodwork.
42:19 vdV cross-cum-shot, Crouch not quite getting on it. Not exactly what I was hoping for all this.
44:58 Coming up to HT. Crouch header over. Should have mentioned, Dyer went off earlier. Cheeky bid off.
Half-Time - 9 shots to our 7. It's been piss poor. Making them look decent, which is a massive achievement in itself, for us to be so out of this game in terms of application and desire. WH deservedly in front. As for us, it's not like we haven't had a go, but shooting and watching Green save is not good enough. We are meant to be stamping some of that quality onto the pitch, but it seems we have no strength centrally to take control. Time for a sub me thinks. Hopefully, vdV is okay. Looked to have picked up a knock.
So, shit first half. Honestly, only Spurs can make West Ham look good. Still, they deserve to be ahead. Can see us losing this 2-0 if we don't change our attitude. Having better quality players is not good enough if all they're going to do is swan around.
2nd Half
Okay, so here go. Can we have our Tottenham back please?
48:00 Like I said in the original post, Bale at left-back...wasted. We need him in midfield. Let's not forget, this is a struggling Hammer's side. Have a sodding go at them. They're confident at the moment, but one goal back and they are likely to collapse.
51:15 Hudd shot. Close. Another decent effort. But still, all from distance.
53:23 More in the game now. Just nothing decisive.
54:46 Oh dear. Hudd around Green, tries a shot, complete mess. Had he crossed it for Crouch...had he...
60:00 Okay, what did I miss? Had to leave the stream for several minutes. Daughter is teething, so had to use some of that powder on her gums that looks like cocaine. Talking of which, I could do with a couple of lines round about now. 30 minutes left. It's not looking good on the pitch at Upton Park. I'll be screaming like my baby girl by the full 90 at this rate.
64:55 Another CC save. Living dangerously. WBA 2-0 up at Arsenal. No doubt the scum will score three goals in the final ten.
65:34 Lennon off. Keane on. Game number 300 for our Robbie.
67:17 Did I say shame on us if we lose this? I'm standing by that statement.
69:10 "Why are we making this look sooo difficult?! Its sodding west ham! FFS!" - Bimspur.
71:00 I'm fast losing interest now. It's all about the players right, not formation? Well Harry, it's much ado about nothing out there.
73:43 Cracking save from CC from Noble. Cracking. Cracks in our team mind.
77:10 Run into the box from JJ. Shot wasn't a cross wasn't a shot wasn't a cross.
77:36 vdV off. Good shift. Gio on. Ho hum.
78:19 Mighty scramble in our box. Which has seen more action than that call-girl skank off the X-Factor.
79:37 Crouch off. Pav on. The nightmare is complete.
81:13 If it stays 1-0 then its proof that West Ham United are level-pegged with us in stature and thus our rivals.
82:56 Champions League, it's all we've got, Champions League, it's all we've got...
84:44 Worst. Free-kick. Ever.
85:59 Keane effort. Keane of old might have had that.
88:04 Well done Spammers. Find those keys the trophy cabinet.
88:41 Yep. Given up I have.
Full-Time Shame on us. WH fully deserving of the three points, as shit as they are, they at least wanted it today. We did our usual apologetic attempts of botheredness. Not good enough Harry. Not good enough Spurs. Momentum. When are we going to have some?
Conclusion? Not much of one. Half-arsed performance. No effort, not urgency, no desire. West Ham tired, but fuck me, they're not exactly a team built up of quality and depth are they? And yet they won. We failed to score. I'd rather be trashed out of sight than to lose because we're as limp as a 99 year old cock.
Sorry Spurs. So sorry.
PS. Three points off 4th. It's not over yet !!!!1111 COYFS !!!!!!!!111
Reader Comments (79)
Corluka? Centre back? Curious.
Huddlestone is captain ...3 words that scare me!
We've got injuries at the back and there is no way King will be risked for this game what with FC Twente next week. We'll probably have a full strength back four for that one. Bale slotting back into LB the only solution. At least that allows us to play that midfield 5.
No DM either.
So is Jenas going to be our work horse today?
Charlie already out of position.
Not settled yet. West Ham with plenty of the ball.
Where is Gallas? He played last week and there are no reports of an injury. Yet another game where we don't have the same central defender partnership. Worrying.
Hammers lapping up the corners.
So we have 2 defenders ???
I am including Charlie in that number.
Yep! Why isn't Caulker on the bench? Strange. Especially if Gallas and King are out.
Got to get a grip. All over the place at the moment. Continued change of personnel and positions ain't helping. If we lose this against two bob lot I'll send my season ticket back.
Midfield isn't clicking.
Starting to think qualifying for CL was not all it was cracked up to be if it means this season turns to crap.
Oh so typical Spurs
No man on the post!!!! But is anybody surprised we are all over the place at the back with a central defence partnership that has never played together??? Where is Gallas, Caulker? And was it JJ who gave the ball away with that piss poor header in the middle of the park that led to the corner for the West Ham goal?
VDV limping....yet another injury! He won't be coming out for the 2nd half then.
To be far Green has made three outstanding saves so far...
Lennon how about you get the ball and actually run at your marker!!!!
We've been terrible so far. The odd player looking good in particular vdv who seems to be a class above everything we've played so far but we need others to join the party. Defensively we look worse than a sunday league team full of blind men who spent all night drinking and riding prostitutes.
So I guess we'll change to a 442 at half time with vdV coming off if he's limping?
Not that I'm able to watch it :-(
Keane or Pav???
THFC 1882... Glad to say I am not blind but would not mind playing for that Sunday league team. How do I join ?
This is pitiful, I'm disappointed. For the love of all things good and holy, why are we looking like this?! We look helpless, where's that power and confidence we had last season?!
Not looking bright at all
It's all about the Champions League. Our players don't have the mental capacity to cope with both sets or pressures. Nobody is getting stuck in out there.
Watching on a stuttering live stream. Which is what we are. Stuttering that is. Avram Grant performs mote voodoo magic against Spurs. 45 to go.
Just pressure them Spurs !
Has Crouch linked up with someone on the ground once this half?
Spooky, you should do this live blogging malarky more often. It beats the shit out of Sky's Score Centre...
Lay it off Tommy...fuck
I'm expecting some of that 'Arry magic. We can win this one, put have to step up a level.
Not getting any better is it? Time for a change methinks.
We are just not scoring enough goals so far this season....also only one clean sheet so far. Hud should of tucked that one away, very poor. A win today is vital to get up that table!
Get well soon Defoe.....
Better get used to these half arsed can't be bothered efforts I'm afraid, got both eyes on the CL, seems that nothing else matters. Clearly our replacement players are better on paper than grass.
Spooky, for your next blog how about asking the question "CL - was it worth qualifying ?"
Keane on? Game over? Cmon Robbie, prove us doubters wrong on your 300th start.
Whhy are we making this look sooo difficult?! Its sodding west ham! FFS!
Can't create a decent chance...Pav for crouch for link-up play perhaps?
Poor poor poor
Looks like team work ethic is winning over team ability.
We don't have anything to offer when Bale plays LB.....
On the upside, the goons are 3-1 down at home to WBA.
Actually, is that an upside, when it means Albion go 5th?!?
Suspect the goons will come back.
Sounds like West Ham are more likely to score than us.
When one can say that Cudicini is keeping us in this game we have problems. Gio Two Saints the savior of this game?!
Where's the stream and where's our Navaho hero Stalteri for a last minute winner, with a JJ equaliser a minute before. Oh, i was asleep....
When did Piqquionne last score ?
Everytime we come up against a CF who has not scored for 10 years you just know he will break his duck against us.
Change 4,4,2 get Crouch off Pav on do it Arry or Fuck off! There said it!
http://www.rojadirecta.com
Help!!!! I hate days like this.
Complete cobblers. But are least the Goons got beat too! Great day for Man City.
We're going to seriously regret not getting a proper striker in; the 3 we have right now are bloody useless. Crouch was a complete lump; couldn't even win the headers. Mid-table mediocrity beckons, I reckon.
ooooookay!
that was crap.
What a great chance Spurs just threw away! Arsenal and Chelsea lose and we don't take advantage. Defended poorly but no surprise with the key players missing. Green played well first half. Hud should of scored though. Terrible day for us. We don't look a threat up front do we? Really worry with Defoe out.
Proof there is no god. I should know. I prayed to the fucker.
"Please God. Don't let these cave-dwelling scumbags get their first win of the season over us. Even you can't be that cruel."
If he exists, he's a cad.
Absolutely awful. We have not looked impressive all season bar 45 minutes against Bremen. Better enjoy the Champs League this season cos we've no chance of getting back in at all
Fucking 'ell Tottenham fucking hell.