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Sunday - 19 January - 13H30

Somewhere in Wales

4 - 4 - facking - 2

Ade and Soldado upfront. Lloris and a few other fellas behind.



Swansea are currently the worst team on form - having only picked up 2 points from their last 6 PL games. We are sitting 4th in the same league form table.

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/matchday/form-guide.html


Hard-fought 2:1 away win

Lets 'Ave It!


COYS

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Last season we went 0-2 up pretty early, although that was with verts and bale combining both times....verts won't be back will he? Anyways swansea pass quickly and accurately so this might be tough, especially since they've been underperforming and will want a win
 
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Swansea City host Tottenham Hotspur at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday 19th January (KO 13:30) in the 22nd round of matches in the 2013-14 Premier League season.

Swansea come into the game in 13th place on 21 points with Spurs in 5th place on 40 points. This will be the 43rd time the two teams have met.

Swansea City were founded in 1912 as Swansea Town (they changed their name to Swansea City in 1969) and joined the Second Division of the Southern League for the 1913-14 season. After World War One, The Jacks became members of the SL First Division and joined the Football League in season 1920-21 when the Southern League was incorporated to form the Third Division of the Football League. The following season the division was re-named the Third Division South.

The first meeting between Spurs and Swansea came in the Second Division in November 1928 at Vetch Field with the home side winning 4-0. The reverse fixture in March 1929 at White Hart Lane ended in a 1-1 draw.

The clubs met for a further eight seasons in Division Two between seasons 1930-31 and 1938-39 with 10 wins for Spurs, 2 wins for Swansea and 4 matches drawn.

During the Second World War, the clubs played two games in the Football League South with a win each.

The clubs played for two more seasons in Division Two after WW2 with three wins for Spurs and one for Swansea.

Spurs and Swansea have played five games in the Football League Cup, the first of which came in the second round in September 1970 with Tottenham winning 3-0 at the Lane with goals from Steve Perryman, Martin Peters and Roger Morgan.

Eight years later, Swansea drew with Spurs 2-2 at Vetch Field in the second round first leg and won 3-1 at White Hart Lane.

The most recent League Cup meetings came in the second round in 1991 with Swansea winning 1-0 at home in the first leg and Spurs winning 5-1 at White Hart Lane with goals from Paul Stewart, Vinnie Samways, Gary Lineker, Paul Allen and an own goal.

Swansea City won promotion to the Top Flight of English Football for the first time in season 1981-82 and were league leaders at one stage before finishing in 6th position. The match at Vetch Field in September 1981 resulted in a 2-1 win for The Swans with Glenn Hoddle scoring for Spurs, while the return match at the Lane in May 1982 was won 2-1 by Spurs with Gary Brooke scoring both goals.

A similar set of results came in Swansea's second season in Division One with a 2-0 home win in Swansea and a 1-0 home win in Tottenham.

The two clubs came in a friendly played in Swansea in November 1992, which resulted in a 3-3 draw.

Tottenham Hotspur and Swansea City have never met in the FA Cup. Swansea became the first Welsh club to play in the Premier League by winning the play-off against Reading at Wembley 4-2 thanks mainly to a Scott Sinclair hat-trick.

The fixture at the Liberty Stadium in December 2011 finished in a 1-1 draw with Spurs going ahead just before half-time through Rafael van der Vaart but Swansea salvaged a point with a late equaliser from Scott Sinclair. Rafael van der Vaart put Spurs 1-0 up at halftime in the match at White Hart Lane in April 2012 with a 19th minute goal. Sigurdsson equalised for Swansea in the 59th minute but a brace from Emmanuel Adebayor secured the three points for Spurs.

During the 2012 summer Tottenham Hotspur signed Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson from 1899 Hoffenheim but who had been on loan at Swansea City for the 2011-12 season. The game at White Hart Lane in December 2012 was won by a Jan Vertonghen goal scored in the 75th minute. Swansea won the first major trophy in their history in February 2013 when they beat Bradford City in the Football League Cup Final 5-0.

The game at Liberty Stadium at the end of March 2013 was won 2-1 by Spurs. Jan Vertonghen put Spurs ahead after 7 minutes and Gareth Bale added a second on 21 minutes. Swansea pulled a goal back through Miguel Michu on 71 minutes.

Tottenham won their opening home game of the 2013-14 season in August beating Swansea 1-0 thanks to a 28th minute Roberto Soldado penalty after Jonjo Shelvey had fouled Andros Townsend.

Overall, Spurs have won 24, Swansea have won 10 and 8 of the 42 matches played so far between the two clubs have been drawn.


Terry Boyle
Derek Brazil
Ivor Brown
Ron Burgess (also Swansea coach & manager)
Steven Caulker
Willie Davies
Gerry Francis (Swansea player, Spurs manager)
Roger Gibbins
Mark Gower
Charlie Handley
Percy Hooper
Jack Illingworth
Cliff Jones
Ernie Jones
Mark Kendall
Derek King
Doug Livermore (Swansea coach, Spurs asst. manager)
Terry Medwin (Spurs player, Swansea asst. manager)
Joe Meek
Paul Price
Wayne Routledge
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Micky Stead

Arthur Willis (Spurs player, Swansea coach)
Alan Woods

 
Lloris
Walker - Dawson - Vlad - Rose
Lennon - Sandro - Dembele - Eriksen
Lamela
Ade​

Naughton in for Walker if the latter is injured. Bentaleb for Sandro if he's still not fit. I suspect Soldado will be benched this time. Sherwood will probably pick Defoe, but if Lamela is match ready it would be interesting to see him up front with Ade.
 
I request a return to 4-2-3-1 and a start for Defoe. Ade and Soldado can't perform like they did against Palace and expect to still be in the side.

------------------Hugo------------------
Walker---Dawson--Vlad---Rose
---------Capoue---Dembele-------
Lamela----Eriksen----Townsend
-----------------Defoe-----------------

2-0 (Defoe, Lamela)

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We've played some good games with Swansea since they've come up. They don't make it easy on you.

Glad to catch them in a bit of poor form.

3-1 Spurs (Ade, Lamela, Dawson).
 
I request a return to 4-2-3-1 and a start for Defoe. Ade and Soldado can't perform like they did against Palace and expect to still be in the side.

------------------Hugo------------------
Walker---Dawson--Vlad---Rose
---------Capoue---Dembele-------
Lamela----Eriksen----Townsend
-----------------Defoe-----------------

2-0 (Defoe, Lamela)

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You know :sherwoodlol: is going to start Bentaleb.
 
Sandro or Capoue is an absolute must at Swansea.

The rest of the selection , have complete faith in TS. But let's hope he doesn't go the route of AVB and fail to adjust to an obvious outage A natural CDM in a 422 is essential
 
Sandro or Capoue is an absolute must at Swansea.

The rest of the selection , have complete faith in TS. But let's hope he doesn't go the route of AVB and fail to adjust to an obvious outage A natural CDM in a 422 is essential
Completely agree, but also thought we should have used one against the scum.
 
Completely agree, but also thought we should have used one against the scum.
You can away with it more if you have extra numbers in midfield, playing Eiksen or Lamela for example in the hole and just one forward, but a traditional 4-4-2 with Ade and Soldado means a Defensive midfielder is essential, Sandro is great at breaking up play and lets hope Capoue is allowed to come in. TS is still getting to know the senior squad so its not surprising he throws one or two of his talented youth players in the mix who he knows well but we do need a balanced side.
 
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