Rovers Versus Tottenham

[Lathund]

Samba and Vogel in. Zurab and Dunn (Injury) out. With Samba's recent form I'd have prefered to see either Emerton in with Ooijer in the centre, or keeping Zurab in there. I wonder what Zurab is thinking when Samba plays poorly, and then Zurab plays well when deputising for him, and then gets dropped again as soon as Samba is back.

ROVERS: Friedel, Ooijer, Samba, Nelsen ©, Warnock, Bentley, Reid, Vogel, Pedersen, Roberts, Santa Cruz. Subs: Brown (GK), Emerton, McCarthy, Mokoena, Derbyshire.

TOTTENHAM: Cerny, Chimbonda, Dawson, Woodgate, Hutton; Lennon, Zokora, Jenas, Malbranque, Keane ©, Berbatov. Subs: Fortune (GK), Tainio, Gilberto, Huddlestone, Bent.

[rovers1993]

lets see how vogel can cope with jenas...

come on rovers!

[RibbleValleyRover]

Samba and Vogel in. Zurab and Dunn (Injury) out. With Samba's recent form I'd have prefered to see either Emerton in with Ooijer in the centre, or keeping Zurab in there. I wonder what Zurab is thinking when Samba plays poorly, and then Zurab plays well when deputising for him, and then gets dropped again as soon as Samba is back.

ROVERS: Friedel, Ooijer, Samba, Nelsen ©, Warnock, Bentley, Reid, Vogel, Pedersen, Roberts, Santa Cruz. Subs: Brown (GK), Emerton, McCarthy, Mokoena, Derbyshire.

TOTTENHAM: Cerny, Chimbonda, Dawson, Woodgate, Hutton; Lennon, Zokora, Jenas, Malbranque, Keane ©, Berbatov. Subs: Fortune (GK), Tainio, Gilberto, Huddlestone, Bent.

Samba in!

Interesting that Vogel is starting. He hasn't played a competitive match for a long time and to play him from the start in a must win game against a decent side he must of impresed Hughes. I just hope it doesn't backfire.

[rock steady]

would have liked to see benni in the team today. oh well...

[krislu]

With Samba's recent form I'd have prefered to see either Emerton in with Ooijer in the centre, or keeping Zurab in there. I wonder what Zurab is thinking when Samba plays poorly, and then Zurab plays well when deputising for him, and then gets dropped again as soon as Samba is back.

Agree, this is a very strange move by Hughes! We had a good chance of winning this game, but with Samba back in the starting XI...You better get yourself ready for another horror show by the blackburn defence!

[FourLaneBlue]

Samba´s best performances have usually been alongside Nelsen in defence who may have been helping him out as a mentor. Maybe Hughes is thinking that is what Samba needs to settle him down and get back into form.

[RibbleValleyRover]

I'm still a bit shocked that Vogel is starting

[Rovers in America]

Guess we shall see what Vogel has. Looking forward to that today.

[tchocky]

Damn Canal+ for not showing this game!

[Lurid Coat]

I'm still a bit shocked that Vogel is starting

I'm both shocked and excited, to be honest. I've always been a big fan of Vogel's, so I'm ecstatic that he's getting his Rovers debut so soon, but this might also just be a testament to how Hughes rates Tugay and the Axe (i.e not at all)

[RibbleValleyRover]

I'm both shocked and excited, to be honest. I've always been a big fan of Vogel's, so I'm ecstatic that he's getting his Rovers debut so soon, but this might also just be a testament to how Hughes rates Tugay and the Axe (i.e not at all)

I guess i'm feeling the same. I'm not expecting anything major from him, as its his first game but its nice to see a DM with a pedigree in the side.

[rovers1993]

0-1 ffs....

[Rovers in America]

Well that was crap

[RibbleValleyRover]

0-1 ffs....

FFS, against the run of play.

WE PLAYED Jenas onside, bad defending

[rovers1993]

berbatov is a diving ####! trying to get penalty! we need instant reply to get back into the game...

why do we need to concede first everytime?

[tony gale's mic]

85 minutes to save our season.

[RibbleValleyRover]

85 minutes to save our season.

Villa 1-0 up against Bolton

[rovers1993]

well at least man city is 1-0 down... we need a win badly! if not then say good bye to europe.

[Mr. E]

if the team which lost 4-1 to the worst team in the league stop us today....well....well what. We're Rovers. It's what we do.

and this is what I'm talking about. Santa Cruz gets the ball 1 on 1 vs the last defender, and he doesn't go for it. He runs out of the area, waits for support and the entire Spurs defense floods back in.

[BRFC1995]

poor, really poor at home! need pompey to win cup and villla to f£££ up against bolton or season is looking over considering liverpool and united to come, the sentiment ffs never more apt!!

[tony gale's mic]

if the team which lost 4-1 to the worst team in the league stop us today....well....well what. We're Rovers. It's what we do.

They lost 4-1 to Derby?!

This is very disappointing but no need to be so melodramatic.

[krislu]

with Samba back in the starting XI...You better get yourself ready for another horror show by the blackburn defence!

Didn't take long before our defence played the brilliant "lets-get-them-offside" card....

Bentley getting frustrated, can't blame him..

[rovers1993]

last game they went 1 - 0 up and lost 1-4 so we'll just have to see...

it's not over until the final whistle is blown.

[Tango]

Samba's all over the place at the moment, Berbatov's running rings round him.

[rovers1993]

spuds looks like a world cup winning team against us now... they are ripping our defence apart again and again.