Midweek Fixtures 27/28 November 2012

Tuesday 27th November:

Sunderland v QPR 19:45
Aston Villa v Reading 20:00

Wednesday 28th November:

Chelsea v Fulham 19:45
Everton v Arsenal 19:45
Southampton v Norwich 19:45
Stoke v Newcastle 19:45
Swansea v West Brom 19:45
Tottenham v Liverpool 19:45
Man Utd v West Ham 20:00
Wigan v Man City 20:00

Must-win game for us tonight. Vlaar being injured does not help, the defence worries me. Think we are capable of getting goals though:

Guzan
Lowton-Clark-Baker-Stevens
Westwood-Bannan
Weimann-Holman-Agbonlahor
Benteke

Bent not even on the bench again despite being reported fit. Perhaps seen the last of him for Villa. Certainly there's no way Lambert can keep the line that it is purely tactical when he's picking a kid we signed from Huddersfield on the bench ahead of him.

I'm sorry Debbie, Villa are absolute dross. You need to be relegated to rebuild ala Newcastle.

I like Benteke. But why isn't Bent playing at all? It's hardly going to help his value.

4 televised league games in a row 0-0. This league is grim.

Finished 1-0?

I wonder how many people made it to the 80th minute.

I didn't even start it.

Heard Bent left when he heard he wasn't starting? And that he stole Chris Herd's girlfriend

Luis wrote:I'm sorry Debbie, Villa are absolute dross. You need to be relegated to rebuild ala Newcastle.

Stupid comment. Might've made sense last season, but if you took the faintest bit of notice, you'd see we're already in the process of completely rebuilding - it's a new manager & the team is already almost entirely different from last season. We need to be patient with the young players, stay up and continue rebuilding.

Wasn't a great performance or a great game for neutrals, but we were decent in 2nd half and deserved the win. Beastly header from Benteke to win it. Lambert needed that 'cause certainly the absence of Bent would've been questioned a lot more had we not got a goal.

Debs

Who wants some Opta #FACTS re Tottingham vs The Scousers (red)?

-Tottenham have won the last five home games against Liverpool in all competitions.
-The Reds have failed to score in their last three matches against Spurs.
-Jamie Carragher has scored as many Premier League goals for Spurs as he has for Liverpool (3).
-Only Robbie Keane (5) and Teddy Sheringham (4) have scored more goals for Tottenham against Liverpool in Premier League history than Carragher (3 own goals).
-Spurs have scored a 90th minute goal in three of their last four Premier League games at home against Liverpool.
-Liverpool have lost five and won just one of the last seven away games where Phil Dowd has been the referee, including two defeats at White Hart Lane.
-Only Everton v Manchester United (7) has seen more own goals than the Liverpool v Tottenham (6) fixture in Premier League history.
-Liverpool have not drawn four Premier League away games in a row since 1996.
-Only Man City (0) have lost fewer Premier League away games than Liverpool this season (1).
-Jermain Defoe’s goals per game rate of 0.54 in the league so far in 2012/13 is his best-ever rate in a Premier League campaign.
-Spurs have led in more games than any other Premier League this season (11).

FACTS

Tottenham got 5 CL's less then Liverpool.

Opta #FACTS

Disco Benny wrote:-Jamie Carragher has scored as many Premier League goals for Spurs as he has for Liverpool (3).

We're unchanged which means Downing starts again .

I fully expect a loss tonight.

Fey wrote:Tottenham got 5 CL's less then Liverpool.

Opta #FACTS

No, only 1 less CL

FACTS on a technicality

Luis wrote:We're unchanged which means Downing starts again .

I fully expect a loss tonight.

We've got grandad gallas and flat foot Dawson at centreback tonight.

Likely to be rich pickings for Suarez if he's on form

Walcott scores for Arsenal in the first minute.

Lennon goal..............

Nice cross from Bale.

great start to the Spurs Liverpool game, Spurs look like they have more teeth and Lennon puts them one up. Bale is in the mood tonight.

Whatever arsenals little jet heeled winger can do, so can ours.

Lennon makes it 1 nil to Ajax minus the period

Bale again

Fuck off Bale

Katie Price Henderson really should have scored.

take Bale off, it's not fair.

Our diver is better than your diver

Robin van Persie has scored again. Arsenal are such a c**t.

What match should I watch! We are already leading, so that game is over. But Spurs are already 2-0 up, looks like that game is over already. Though with Spurs one is never sure of course.

OptaJoe @OptaJoe 4m 1 - Gareth Bale's goal vs Liverpool is only his second from a direct FK in the Premier League, and the first since September 2007. Rare

Surprised by that stat.