We've got to pull out all the stops: Spurs v Leicester City, 19 July at 4pm.
We've got to pull out all the stops; Spurs v Leicester City, 19 July at 4pm.
We seem to have found a
settled side in the nick of time and have started to play a better, although it
is too late for us to make the Champions League.
I also have this feeling
that Leicester are going to miss out on a Champions League place. Granted Leicester
were more like their old selves against Sheffield United on Thursday, but they
are not consistent enough.
What is in the Foxes' favour
is that they know they will have a chance of making the Champions League places
when they host Manchester United on the final day of this extended season.
We will be ensured seventh
place at least if we win our final two games. But we need Wolves to drop points
if we do not want to worry about who wins the FA Cup Final.
Our last two games; Leicester
(h, 19 July), Crystal Palace (a, 26 July)
Wolves next two games are Crystal
Palace (h, 20 July), Chelsea (a, 26 July.
TEAM NEWS
Dele Alli will miss his
fifth match with a hamstring injury and may not feature again this season. Lucas
Moura is in doubt after picking up an injury against Newcastle.
As for Leicester City, well,
they continue their quest of Champions League football without James Maddison,
Ben Chilwell and Christian Fuchs, who are all ruled out for the rest of the
season. Caglar Soyuncu is suspended, while Marc Albrighton is an injury doubt.
These injuries to Leicester
doesn't mean they are any less dangerous. They can still fight like a wounded
animal caught in the corner… and they are not called Foxes for nothing. We, on
the other hand, have spurs on our cockerel, which can give a nasty gash when
threatened.
It looks like we have
started getting our act together at the right moment in time.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
We have lost just one of our
past eight home league games against Leicester (W5, D2), a 1-0 defeat in
January 2016.
Leicester can complete their
first league double over us since 1998-99, following their 2-1 victory in
September.
There have been 28 goals
scored in the past six Premier League meetings, at an average of 4.7 per game.
Tottenham Hotspur
We can win four consecutive
Premier League matches for the first time at our new stadium. A stadium that
will lack support, just an eerie feel reverberating around the stadium.
We have lost only one of our
seven Premier League fixtures since the restart (W4, D2), a 3-1 defeat at
Sheffield United on 2 July.
However, we have triumphed
in only two of our 13 Premier League matches against teams in the top eight of
the table (D3, L8).
We have conceded just five
goals from set-pieces, fewer than any other side in the division.
Son has scored six goals and
assisted three in his last 10 Premier League appearances.
Jose Mourinho has won all
four Premier League home fixtures as a manager versus Leicester, by an
aggregate score of 10-2.
Leicester City
Leicester City are
guaranteed a top-four finish if they win their remaining two matches.
They are winless in their
last seven Premier League away games (D3 L4), their longest such run since a
sequence of 15 matches ended in February 2017.
The Foxes have failed to win
their final away fixture of the season for the past 11 seasons since beating
Blackburn 4-2 in 1996-97 (D3, L8).
Leicester (67) are one short
of equalling the club Premier League record for most goals in a single season.
Jamie Vardy has scored five
goals and assisted three in his last nine Premier League games against Spurs,
with four of his five goals coming away from home.
Vardy needs just one goal to
match his best Premier League return of 24.
Brendan Rodgers has won each
of his last six Premier League matches as a manager versus Spurs, by an
aggregate score of 20-5.
So there you have it, the
stage is set for a critical showdown for both teams—the fighting cockerel (with
spurs) against the mangy fox battling it out this Sunday. Gunfight at the OK
Corral, Muhammed Alli against Joe Frazier… ok, let us not exaggerate… nobody is
going to be punched into surrender or shot to death… but a win would be a significant
result for us.
I've heard that we should be
allowed back into the stadium on the 1 October (announced by good ol' Boris… or
not, depending on your political viewpoint). I wonder how that will work and who
will be able to go (if you still have to social distance).? There was talk
about putting season ticket holders into a lottery for a place. And what about Premium
members who have already paid for that season? So many questions! No doubt in
the next couple of weeks we will be fully updated.
I am off to limber up and pick
a good wine for Sunday… or should that be a lager? Decisions, decisions… who
would have thought that watching Spurs in lockdown mode would be so tiring with
all these decisions? If I was an Arsenal or Chelsea supporters, I wouldn't have
to engage my brain… but then again I doubt very much I would have a brain to
engage if I supported one of those teams. To you all:
We'll meet again,
don't know where, don't know when
But I know we'll meet
again some sunny day
Keep smiling through,
just like you always do
Till the blue skies
drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please
say Hello, to the folks that I know
Tell them I won't be
long
They'll be happy to
know, that as you saw me go
I was singing this
song
We'll meet again,
don't know where, don't know when
But I know we'll meet
again some sunny day
Yiddo!!!!!!
Take care and best Regards, Glenn
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