Spurs Away - 28th October

[Eddie]

I'm sure that between foreign tv, radio rovers and the text updates on various websites that everyone will have at least basic stuff.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Tottenham appeals handball in area but nothing given.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Bentley curls one 5 yards past the post.

Good play from Rovers!

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Brad keeping us into this game with 2 vital saves in the last couple of mins.

[ABBEY]

good job he didnt step back then

[Cocker]

God this is shocking. How are we not loosing (Brad is the answer to that) they have so much space

[Nelsta]

Sav injured

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Hopefully see a different Rovers side second half. We don't look the same lively side as we did against Reading.

[Cocker]

Sav injured

No he's ok

If we get anything here it will be a miracle

(Dunny has got a number 0 haircut by the way - and a yellow card)

[Tim Southampton Rover]

Savage off - The Axe on

[Eddie]

No he's not, he's off and Mokoena is on. Don't know why we don't bring MGP on and push Dunn into the middle.

[ABBEY]

limped off poss knee lig damage

[Tim Southampton Rover]

H/T Stats:

Spurs Rovers

Goal Attempts 5 : 3 Goal Attempts

On Target 3 : 1 On Target

Crosses 11 : 5 Crosses

Corners 6 : 1 Corners

Offside 1 : - Offside

Fouls 3 : 10 Fouls

Free kicks 10 : 4 Free kicks

Yellow cards - : 1 Yellow cards

Red cards - : - Red cards

% Possession 55 : 45 Possession %

0 - 0

[tony gale's mic]

started well, since then we've been rubbish. given them too much space, given the ball away too much and looked a bit dodgy at the back. thank god for brad.

[budha]

No he's not, he's off and Mokoena is on. Don't know why we don't bring MGP on and push Dunn into the middle.

Cause we're after a draw, not win.

[philipl]

I guess that dumb booking for David Dunn when he needlessly kicked the ball away just before Sav went off meant that Hughes could not risk him playing centrally.

HT

[Mr. E]

We're gonna get beat like this. Spurs have decided to play good football again, and we can't get the ball at the moment. Friedel and Bentley have been our best so far.

Another good talk needed by Hughes.

[modes98]

Very lively start from rovers and we should have really created more. A few scattered chances in between the spurs play and the odd chance.

Hopefully spurs get tired in the second half after the european adventure and rovers can step it up a level.

I agree that the sub is a negative one and i would have preferred the width that MGP would offer us.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

I thought it was for the shirt pull, not the kicking away?

First 5-10 minutes we nearly scored 3 times and looked Arsenalesque.

Then we went crap again.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

I reckon we'll come out and have a good second half. Hopefully the team talk at HT will be a kick up the arse style talk and we'll come out flying. Normally if we are playing great at WHL, we tend to lose so let's hope this is a different approach!

[Flopsy]

maybe hughes thinks that as we're getting overrun a bit that a defensive midfielder who tackles is better than two attack minded midfielders, who cant.

MGP to come on with 20 minutes to go. I'd prefer 30 minutes but Hughes doesnt like to give subs chance to get in the game

[ABBEY]

hughsie knows best flops surely??

[Nelsta]

bum...spurs penalty

[Eddie]

Pentaly Spurs.

[Nelsta]

Goal keane