Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Fixture Focus - Spurs (5 Jan 2011)



Everton FC vs Tottenham Hotspur










We had started off the-year-that-ends-with-a-1 brilliantly with a narrow win over Fulham on New Year's Day. Now we are travelling to Merseyside to face the blue half of Liverpool.

With Keane, Bentley and possibly Krancjar moving out in this January transfer window, it is very likely that they will not be going to Goodison Park (not on the first team anyway). With Kaboul and Defoe still suspended for their red cards, we could probably see the same team on New Year's Day with at most 2 or 3 changes, especially at the back.

Everton is without Cahill as he is involved in Australia's Asian Cup campaign, so the Toffees may field Saha and/or Yakubu as their strike force.

This game will mark the end of the Premier League's "Christmas Crunch" period and so far we had secured 3 wins out of 3. Could we go for the 4th one? Even Manchester United, in their recent run, only managed to secure 3 wins and 1 draw out of 4 games (and it's already considered very good, judging from the number of games played in a short time).

On a side note, it seems the much-hyped arrival of Beckham may not be materialising at all, as LA Galaxy are still mulling over the loan move and had a bad experience when Becks went to AC Milan the last time round.

Come on you Spurs!


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