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OPPONENTS | Burnley at Turf Moor |
COMPETITION | Premier League |
DATE | Saturday 7th March 2020 |
PREVIEW |
Spurs return to the site of where it all started going wrong for
Mauricio Pochettino last season. Since then, our previously
excellent away record has crashed and burned and the loss of the
then manager has brought Jose Mourinho to the club to take an
under-strength Tottenham team to Turf Moor, lacking goals-scoring
forwards and a defence that creaks more than the Marie Celeste. Maybe boosted by the return of Hugo Lloris, that will still not guarantee a clean sheet and the thought of getting two goals is slightly outweighed by the other side getting more, as Wolves proved last week. The defending needs to start from the front and the pressing game has not been kept up since Poch left, so teams have more time with the ball at the back, but our marking is not tight deeper than that and space is given for teams to play in. Burnley are a straight-forward team in terms of attacking. Either hitting the wingers early, or playing balls in behind the back line for Wood and Barnes to run onto. Barnes is out injured, so the dislikeable Rodriguez will slip into his place. Both are decent finishers, with Wood the lesser of the two, but he adds an aerial presence in the box at set-pieces, along with Tarkowski and Mee up from the back. Matej Vydra is a more mobile forward, who can pull plays out of their position, but is often used off the bench. They have been tight at the back lately, so getting through them might not be as easy as in previous years (or even earlier this season). With Lowton out, it might upset the balance of the back four, although Taylor will probably replace him, with Bardsley on the other side of the four. Pope in goal was a keeper we looked at when he was at Charlton, but he went to Burnley and has kept eleven clean sheets this season. In midfield, Cork, Westwood and Hendrick are annoying, niggly players and McNeil offers an outlet wide on the left, while Robbie Brady can deliver a good dead ball. Aaron Lennon is still at Burnley, but often starts on the subs bench and Josh Brownhill was a consistent scorer with Bristol City before signing for the Clarets. Tottenham's only hope is the fact that Burnley don't score many goals. Starting with a fast tempo would be good, but the lack of fitness among the players and the number of games we have played probably dictates that if we do, it won't be kept up. Taking our openings will be crucial to getting anything from the game and with Burnley on a good run, they will have the confidence that we lack after exiting the FA Cup having played 120 minutes. Not a great prediction, but
I would be glad of a draw, even though we need a win. |
PREDICTION | Burnley 1 Tottenham Hotspur 1 |
TOTTENHAM
HOTSPUR TEAM NEWS : - The trip to Burnley will go ahead without Harry Kane (hamstring), Heung-Min Son (broken arm) and Moussa Sissoko (knee). Hugo Lloris is back in contention after returning to training following a groin strain.
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Premier League | Kick off 17:30 |
Burnley
1 (1) |
Tottenham Hotspur 1 (0) |
Goal-scorers Wood 12m 05s |
Dele (p) 49m 04s |
Crowd : 20,496 | Weather : Chilly wind, dry |
Referee : Jonathan Moss (Leeds) | Assistant Referees : Mr. Marc Perry; Mr. Eddie Smart |
Fourth Official : Andy Madley | |
Video Assistant Referee : Craig Pawson | Video Assistant Referee Assistant : Andy Halliday |
Spurs kicked off and played towards the East Stand end in the first half. | |
Game time : - 90 + ? minutes. |
Cards | |
Taylor (foul on Moura) 51 Tarkowski (foul on Dele) 57 Cork (foul on on Moura) 59 Hendrick (foul on Bergwijn) 76 Westwood (kicking the ball away) 90+3
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Lamela (foul on on McNeil) 19 Sanchez (foul on Wood) 56 Bergwijn (foul on Hendrick) 78 Lo Celso (foul on McNeil) 90+2
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Burnley : | kit | Tottenham Hotspur : | kit |
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Nick POPE 26 Phil BARDSLEY 5 James TARKOWSKI 6 Ben MEE (c) 3 Charlie TAYLOR 11 Dwight McNEIL 4 Jack CORK 18 Ashley WESTWOOD 13 Jeff HENDRICK (25 Aaron LENNON 89) 9 Chris WOOD 19 Jay RODRIGUEZ (27 Matej VYDRA 68)
Unused subs: |
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Hugo LLORIS (c) 6 Davinson SANCHEZ 15 Eric DIER 4 Toby ALDERWEIRELD 39 Japhet TANGANGA 28 Tanguy NDOMBELE (18 Giovani LO CELSO 46 ) 29 Oliver SKIPP (27 Lucas MOURA 46) 5 Jan VERTONGHEN 23
Stephen BERGWIJN
Unused subs: |
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Manager : Sean Dyche | Manager : Jose Mourinho | ||
Sponsor : Love Bet | Shirt sponsor : AIA | ||
Kit Supplier : Puma | Kit Supplier : Nike | ||
Match report In the circumstances, a point taken from Turf Moor against Burnley, who dominated the first half, was earned by a much improved second half performance which could have seen Spurs walk away with all three. Spurs on a bad run of no wins in four and Burnley unbeaten and keeping clean sheets, the omens didn't look good ... but that is that part of Lancashire for you. Tottenham almost opened the
scoring inside 40 seconds, as the ball was worked through to Erik
Lamela, who poked a pass to Stephen Bergwijn on the edge of the box.
He shanked his shot, but the ball ran just behind Dele who was near
the penalty spot, but he flicked it behind him to Lamela, who had
continued his run. Unfortunately, again, the ball was behind the
Spurs man and it was cleared by the Burnley defence. Their first
effort came in the sixth minute, as Tanganga’s clearance was
played back in for Alderweireld to head out, only for Wood to fire
it back instantly with venom and the ball whizzed over Lloris’ bar,
but not by much. A couple of minutes later, a corner from their left
was taken by the wind to the far post, where Mee’s header hit the
post and a goalmouth scramble was blocked a few times by spurs
defenders, before it was booted clear. The offensive chanting from
the classy home crowd died away as they celebrated their goal and it
wasn’t undeserved as they had been pumping crosses into the box as
Spurs struggled with a back three and five in midfield in front of
them. They were allowing McNeil to find space and his runs at the
defenders were causing problems. As Tottenham tried to play out from
the back, there were few options available as the movement to make
space to receive passes was missing. Hopefully, there were no more injuries picked up in this physical encounter, although Lloris got up gingerly from one save and Lucas was limping after Cork took his boot off with some studs down his ankle. The team probably fly out to Germany on Monday to meet RB Leipzig the following day, when I hope that Coronavirus is the only major threat to our continued presence in the Champions League ! Burton Bradstock |
Match
facts
Dele Alli scored his 50th
Premier League goal. |
Match sponsors | - |
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Match ball sponsors | - |
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How the players did | |
Hugo Lloris | -. |
Japhet Tanganga | -. |
Toby Alderweireld | - |
Jan Vertonghen | - |
Davinson Sanchez | -. |
Eric Dier | -. |
Oliver Skipp | -. |
Dele Alli | -. |
Stephen Bergwijn | -. |
Tanguy Ndombele | -. |
Erik Lamela | -. |
Subs | |
Giovani Lo Celso | -. |
Lucas Moura | -. |
Paulo Gazzaniga | -. |
Serge Aurier | -. |
Harry Winks | -. |
Ryan Sessegnon | -. |
Gedson Fernandes | -. |
What you thought | |
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Other scores during this week : | ||||
Liverpool | 2 | AFC Bournemouth | 1 | Saturday |
Woolwich Wanderers | 1 | West Ham United London | 0 | Saturday |
Crystal Palace | 1 | Watford | 0 | Saturday |
Sheffield United | 1 | Norwich City | 0 | Saturday |
South Coast Big Club | 0 | Newcastle United | 1 | Saturday |
Wolverhampton Wanderers | 0 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 0 | Saturday |
Frank Lampard's Chelsea | 4 | Everton | 0 | Sunday |
Manchester United | 2 | Manchester City | 0 | Sunday |
Leicester City | - | - | - | -day |
Aston Villa | - | - | - | -day |
League Table 2019-20 | |||||||||
P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | GD | ||
1 | Liverpool | 29 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 66 | 21 | 82 | +45 |
2 | Manchester City | 28 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 68 | 31 | 57 | +37 |
3 | Leicester City | 28 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 54 | 28 | 50 | +26 |
4 | Frank Lampard's Chelsea | 29 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 51 | 39 | 48 | +12 |
5 | Manchester United | 29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 44 | 30 | 45 | +14 |
6 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 29 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 41 | 34 | 43 | +7 |
7 | Sheffield United | 28 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 30 | 25 | 43 | +4 |
8 | TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR | 29 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 47 | 40 | 41 | +7 |
9 | Woolwich Wanderers | 28 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 40 | 36 | 40 | +4 |
10 | Burnley | 29 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 34 | 40 | 39 | -6 |
11 | Crystal Palace | 29 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 32 | 39 | -6 |
12 | Everton | 29 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 37 | 46 | 37 | -9 |
13 | Newcastle United | 29 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 25 | 41 | 35 | -16 |
14 | South Coast Big Club | 29 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 35 | 52 | 34 | -17 |
15 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 29 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 32 | 40 | 29 | -8 |
16 | West Ham United London | 29 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 35 | 50 | 27 | -15 |
17 | Watford | 29 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 27 | 44 | 27 | -17 |
18 | AFC Bournemouth | 29 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 29 | 47 | 27 | -18 |
19 | Aston Villa | 27 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 34 | 52 | 25 | -18 |
20 | Norwich City | 29 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 25 | 52 | 21 | -27 |
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