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OPPONENTS | Internazionale at the San Siro |
COMPETITION | Champions League |
DATE | Tuesday 18th September 2018 |
PREVIEW |
Tottenham travel to Italy on the back of two 1-2 defeats and a
couple of performances that have been less than convincing.
Added to that, injury has hit the side with five first teamers not
making the flight to play Internazionale.
The home side is full of
familiar names. Handanovic is a good keeper, who we have come
across before, but managed to score against, while the defence will
be without Vrsaljko, who is out injured, but a former Spurs target
Stefan de Vrij (formerly of Ajax and Lazio) will be in the line-up,
Andrea Rannochia (who spent some time at Hull !) will join him, with
Milan Skriniar, Miranda and they hope Danilo D’Ambrosio. Their
defence used to be their strength, but the resting of players didn’t
help them at Parma at the weekend, when they lost 0-1 to make their
record 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. Pochettino has to devise a way for the side to function at a higher level and regain some of the fluency of last season. In a tough group, it is important o get something out of the first game, but with Hugo, Kieran, Toby, Dele and Moussa out, it might mean that our bench will look a little light. Son and Lamela looked sharp on Saturday, so hopefully, they will add a bit of verve to the side's attacking forays, as this might be the way to keep Inter back. I would like to think we
could get something at the San Siro, but, with all things
considered, it might be unlikely. |
PREDICTION | Internazionale 2 Tottenham Hotspur 1 |
Champions League | Kick off 17:55 (UK time) |
Internazionale
2 (0) |
Tottenham Hotspur 1 (0) |
Goal-scorers
Icardi 85m 00s |
Eriksen 52m 28s |
Crowd : , | Weather : Warm |
Referee : Clement Turpin (FRA) | Assistant Referees : Nicolas Danos (FRA); Cyril Gringore (FRA) |
Fourth Official : Guillame Debart (FRA) | Additional Assistant Referees : Ruddy Buquet (FRA); Nicolas Rainville (FRA) |
UEFA Delegate : - | UEFA Referee Observer : - |
Spurs kicked off and played towards the Curva Nord end in the first half. | |
Game time : - 90 + 6 minutes. |
Cards | |
Skriniar (foul on Son) 21 Perisic (foul on Eriksen) 43
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Sanchez (foul on Nainggolan) 38 Vertonghen (foul on Nainggolan) 51 Vorm (timewasting) 82
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Internazionale : | kit | Tottenham Hotspur : | kit |
1
Samir HANDANOVIC
37
Milan SKRINIAR
16
Matteo POLITANO (11
Keita BALDE 72)
44
Ivan PERISIC
(87
Antonio CANDREVA 64)
Unused subs: |
13
Michel VORM
24
Serge AURIER
19
Mousa DEMBELE
11
Erik LAMELA (
8 Harry
WINKS 72) 10 Harry KANE (c) ( 3 Danny ROSE 90)
Unused subs: |
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Manager : Luciano Spalletti | Manager : Mauricio Pochettino | ||
Sponsor : Pirelli | Shirt sponsor : AIA | ||
Kit Supplier : Nike | Kit Supplier : Nike | ||
Match report
With six minutes to go,
everything looked good for Tottenham, but that six minutes turned
the game on its head, with Internazionale grabbing two late goals to
take the win and leaving Spurs suffering their third 1-2 reverse on
the trot. Having said that Spurs did not play badly. Not great in
the first half, but the second was the best they had functioned this
season until that home surge at the end. Marco van Hip |
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What you thought | |
Ed Dennis |
There were some good performances tonight fro Spurs despite the
result. Dembele was strong in midfield, Lucas looked up for it
when he came on and Aurier and Sanchez did well. Even Vorm had
a reasonable game, with no chance with the two goals.
Spurs just need to all be
switched on at Brighton on Saturday, so we don't let anything else
slip away from us. |
Benny The Ball | I
am not sure if showing your genitalia to another man is some weird
sort of Italian insult, but the Inter fan in front of us didn't have
the last laugh, being a little less than well endowed. |
Other Champions League group scores this round of games : | ||||
Group A | ||||
Monaco (FRA) | 1 | Atletico Madrid (SPA) | 2 | Tuesday |
Club Brugge (BEL) | 0 | Borussia Dortmund (GER) | 1 | Tuesday |
Group B | ||||
Barcelona (SPA) | 4 | PSV Eindhoven (HOL) | 0 | Tuesday |
Group C | ||||
Red Star Belgrade (SER) | 0 | Napoli (ITA) | 0 | Tuesday |
Liverpool | 3 | Paris Saint Germain (FRA) | 2 | Tuesday |
Group D | ||||
Schalke 04 (GER) | 1 | FC Porto (POR) | 1 | Tuesday |
Galatasary (TUR) | 3 | Lokomotiv Moscow (RUS) | 0 | Tuesday |
Group E | ||||
Ajax (HOL) | 3 | AEK Athens (GRE) | 0 | Wednesday |
Benfica (POR) | 0 | Bayern Munich (GER) | 2 | Wednesday |
Group F | ||||
Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) | 2 | 1899 Hoffenheim (GER) | 2 | Wednesday |
Manchester City | 1 | Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) | 2 | Wednesday |
Group G | ||||
Real Madrid (SPA) | 3 | AS Roma (ITA) | 0 | Wednesday |
Viktoria Plzen (CZE) | 2 | CSKA Moscow (RUS) | 2 | Wednesday |
Group H | ||||
Valencia (SPA) | 0 | Juventus (ITA) | 2 | Wednesday |
Young Boys Bern (SWI) | 1 | Manchester United | 3 | Wednesday |
Champions League Group B Table 2018-19 | |||||||||
P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | GD | ||
1 | Barcelona | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | +4 |
2 | Internazionale | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 |
3 | TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -1 |
4 | PSV Eindhoven | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | -4 |
Position before match :
N/A
Position after this round : 3rd