Southampton 2-3 Spurs
Managerless Spurs made the trip to St Mary’s to take on a Southampton side that have lost a bit of form of late. With no AVB in sight, it was up to Tim Sherwood to try and turns things around for Spurs and attempt to get them back up the table. Things did not start well for them though as after 13 minutes Adam Lallana opened the scoring for the Saints with a lovely turn and clinical finish. Danny Fox was credited with the assist as he passed the ball to his skipper to open the scoring. Then from absolutely nothing, Spurs equalised as Roberto Soldado chased down a pass from Adebayor that was heading for the corner flag, he then delivered a swirling right foot cross that perfectly found Adebayor again who stabbed the ball home in mid flight.Just a note here, this was Spurs’ first goal by a striker in their last 665 minutes of premier league action. Frightening that! After the break and Spurs took the lead as Danny Rose fizzed in a low cross which Jos Hooiveld turned into his own net. Soon after however and the scores were level once again as Rickie Lambert passed the ball easily into the net, this after Lloris made a horrible mess, misjudging a cross by Jack Cork which then fell to the feet of Lallana at the far post who squared it up to Lambert. The scoring was not over yet though as Adebayor got his second of the game and the three points for Spurs. He found himself free on the right hand side and made his way into the box before neatly finishing into the far corner from a narrow angle. Spurs really could have made it more after that but Soldado missed a couple of very good chances. It was enough to see them over the line though in what was an entertaining five goal thriller.
Bonus Points: Adebayor(3), Lallana(2), Lambert(1)
Swansea 1-2 Everton
Another great opportunity here for Everton to carry on with their remarkable form and keep up with the front runners in the league. It was a bit of a slow start with a couple of chances here and there for both teams but nothing too concrete. In fact that was the theme of the half as it seemed both teams were a bit tentative and as a result a number of passes went astray. The only potential talking point was a tackle by Ashley Williams in the Swans box on Ross Barkley that could actually have resulted in a penalty but nothing came of it. Things got slightly better in the second half as a lot more chances were created but still no breakthrough. Then up stepped the most in form defender at this time, Seamus Coleman, with an absolute screamer of a finish. He picked the ball up from James McCarthy, drove forward a little bit and then unleashed a thunderbolt from far out which flew into the top corner. All of a sudden this game kicked into another gear. Soon after that Swansea found the equaliser, as a cross found Tiendalli at the far post and his effort deflected off Everton’s Oviedo and crept into the goal. This could well go down as an own goal which now puts own goals as Swansea’s highest goal scorer for the season. Everton then found themselves with a breakaway which resulted in James McCarthy being fouled. Up stepped Ross Barkley with a peach of a free kick that deserved to see the three points go the way of the blue side, and see them move into the top four.
Bonus Points: McCarthy (3), Barkley(2), Williams & Tiendalli (1)
This article was written by Migs
Nice work, Migs !
Cheers, mate :beer:
Good work migs, still don’t get the bonus pts for the swans game though.
Thanks Migs, great read!
Cheers Migs , Top Read , Thanks
Just FYI :
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-Mauricio Pochettino confirms that Luke Shaw absence from today’s game is down to illness.
-Luke Shaw confirms via twitter that he could’ve played but wasn’t risked and will be fit for the game on Thursday.
-Pellegrini confirms Joe Hart will keep his place in Manchester City’s side for their game against Liverpool on Boxing Day.
-Paul Lambert: Christian Benteke is struggling with his knee
-Manchester United’s Marouane Fellaini may have a wrist operation that would rule him out for six weeks (not that he was playing regularly till now
-50% of Top 50 managers in the TotalFPL league have transferred in Wayne Rooney for GW17.
-99% of Top 100 FPL Managers captain Suarez. 31% transfer in Negredo.
-Roberto Martinez alludes to rotation over the Christmas period.
-Sunderland keeper Westwood may need a shoulder operation
-Dempsey is having a medical at Fulham ahead of a return to the Premier League side on loan from Seattle Sounders
-Laudrup confirms Michu is a doubt for Everton game and will need an operation at some stage.
-Moyes says Nani has a hamstring injury and might be out for a few weeks.
-Pellegrini says Zabaleta’s hamstring injury is ‘not big’ and may only be out for a week or two, the doctor will decide.
-Pellegrini says he hasn’t decided who will play at right-back but options are Clichy, Kolarov, Boyata and Milner.
-Wenger rules Koscielny out of Chelsea game but Everybody else should be available.
-Vorm has undergone successful surgery and is likely to keep him out of action for around four weeks.
And the Most Important News for us all, maybe :
-The Met Office has issued a shock forecast for the Christmas period putting the Boxing day EPL games in doubt !!!
Cheers !!!
HL
Cheers for this HL, lots of useful information, much appreicated – anything on Welbeck, did he go off yesterday with an injury? If any games were to be cancelled on Boxing day with the weather could mean a few dgw’s with Jan wc available – could be intresting but maybe getting ahead of myself!!
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#Moyes on #Welbeck “Danny came off with a sore knee” the player is currently being assessed #MUFC
this is the latest, I’m afraid…
Again thanks for that, just thinking if Welbeck was out for a few weeks, may mean Rooney will play a more advance role.
Rooney = 2 assists. not knocking it but was he withdrawn role again?
brilliant information and very useful….regulat post HL?…these things are the real nuts and bolts of picking the right team, and to have all that info in one place is triffic…ta
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Thanks HL! Were you bored?
Seriously though – great stuff, thank you :thumbup:
Migs, thank you for a great write up as always :popcorn:
Pretty much, yeah :p …
HL, thanks for your research mate, good to know. I hope the last one is a joke!?
Hope so…
The UK guys on this site should tell us more about this, though…
whether it is true or not…
The weather is forecast is bad for tomorrow but should calm down for Christmas day and boxing day so would feel it is probably unlikely but I wouldn’t rule it out. A few games in the lower leagues were postponed yesterday I think?