Tottenham Hotspur FC - Man City Mercenaries

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Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester City at White Hart Lane on Wednesday 29th January (KO 19:45) in the 23rd round of Premier League matches in the 2013-14 season.
Spurs come into the match in fifth place in the Premier League on 43 points with City in second place on 50 points. This will be the 148th time the two teams have met.
The first meeting came on 16th January 1909 in the FA Cup 1st round (today's 3rd round) at Hyde Road in Ardwick (City's original name) in a match which Spurs won 4-3.
The first League meeting came in the First Division in December 1910 at White Hart Lane and resulted in a 1-1 draw. Walter Tull, who was the first black outfield footballer to play League football scored Tottenham's goal. City won the reverse fixture in January 1911 2-1.
All the League meetings between Spurs and City up to season 1934-35 took place in the First Division.
The clubs were drawn together in the 1913-14 FA Cup 2nd round with City wining 2-1 at Hyde Road (City would move to Maine Road in 1923 and stay there for the next 80 years) and also met in the 1921-22 FA Cup 3rd round with FA Cup holders Tottenham beating City 2-1 at White Hart Lane.
The only League meetings between the clubs outside the Top Flight took place either side of the Second World War with City winning both Second Division matches in the 1938-39 season and taking three points out of four off Spurs in the Second Division matches played in 1946-47.
Spurs and City resumed their Top Flight meetings in the 1951-52 season.
The clubs contested the 1956 FA Cup Semi-Final at Villa Park with City winning 1-0 with a goal scored by Bobby Johnstone. City would go on to win the FA Cup that season, beating Birmingham City 3-1 in the Final at Wembley.
Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City contested the centenary FA Cup Final in 1981. The match finished in a 1-1 draw after extra time after Tommy Hutchison had put City ahead but also scored an unfortunate own goal.
The replay was the first to be played at Wembley and Spurs won 3-2 with a brace from Ricky Villa and a goal from Garth Crooks. City goals were scored by Steve MacKenzie and Kevin Reeves. Ricky Villa's second goal was voted Goal of the Century and the match is one of the best remembered Finals of all-time.
The first of three Football League Cup meetings came in the 1992 3rd Round with Spurs winning 1-0 at Maine Road with a Vinny Samways goal. Tottenham also won the other two matches - a 4th Round match in 2003 3-1 and a 5th round match in 2007 2-0.
City had an amazing comeback in the 2004 FA Cup 4th Round replay at White Hart Lane after going three goals down to goals from Ledley King, Robbie Keane and Christian Ziege in the first half. City, who had been reduced to ten men after Joey Barton received a second yellow card, scored four second half goals from Sylvain Distin, Paul Bosvelt, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Jonathan Macken to win a memorable game 4-3.
Both Spurs and City were founder-members of the Premier League, although City have only competed in 17 of the 22 seasons played in the competition so far, while Spurs have been one of seven ever-present clubs.
Spurs have generally had the upper hand during this era with twenty wins to City's seven wins and five matches drawn. The 65 points Spurs have taken off City is second only to the points taken off Everton.
In 2009-10, Spurs did the 'double' over City with a 3-0 win at the Lane with goals from Nico Kranjcar (2) and Jermain Defoe followed by a vital 1-0 end of season win at Eastlands, which secured fourth place and Champions League football for Spurs thanks to a Peter Crouch goal.
The 2010-11 fixtures featured an opening day of the season match at White Hart Lane which finished in a 0-0 draw and a late season game at Eastlands which City won 1-0 thanks to a Peter Crouch own goal. During the summer of 2011, Spurs secured the services of Manchester City's Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor on a season's loan.
The match at White Hart Lane in August 2011 ended in a comprehensive 5-1 win to Manchester City with Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko scoring four goals for the visitors, who were 2-0 up at half-time. Sergio Aguero also scored for City while Tottenham's goal came from Younes Kaboul.
The game at Etihad Stadium in January 2012 resulted in a 3-2 win for Manchester City. After a goalless first half, City scored twice through Samir Nasri and Joleon Lescott before Spurs made things level with goals from Jermain Defoe on the hour mark and Gareth Bale five minutes later. But a last minute penalty from Mario Balotelli secured the points for the home side.
Emmanuel Adebayor made his move permanent to Spurs during the summer of 2012. The teams met in Manchester in November 2012 and a Steven Cauker header put Spurs ahead after 21 minutes. City equalised through Sergio Aguero in the 65th minute and substitute Edin Dzeko secured the three points for the home side two minutes before the match ended.
Spurs beat City 3-1 in April 2013 with Clint Dempsey, Jermain Defoe & Gareth Bale all scoring for Spurs and Samir Nasri scoring for City.
Jesus Navas scored in the opening minute to put City ahead at the Etihad in November 2013 and Sandro put through his own goal on 34 minutes. Sergio Aguero scored in the 41st minute to give City a 3-0 lead at half-time. He added another goal five minutes after the break and Alvaro Negredo scored City's fifth in the 55th minute. Jesus Navas completed the scoring in the last minute for a throroughly comprehensive 6-0 City win.
Overall, Spurs have won 58 games, City have won 55 games and the remaining 34 matches played have been drawn.

Complete Results of Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City Matches 1909-2014

They Played for Spurs & City....

Emmanuel Adebayor
Clive Allen (Player with both clubs, Spurs development manager)
Jamie Atwell
Kevin Bond (City player, Spurs asst manager)
Ivor Broadis
Michael Brown
Jock Chaplin
Vedran Corluka
Bill Felton
Márton Fülöp
Foster Hedley
Chris Jones
Neil McNab
Bobby Mimms
Joe Moffatt
John Sainty (Spurs player, City coach)
Bert Sproston
Alex Steel
Paul Stewart
Perry Suckling (City player, Spurs coach)
Ben Thatcher
Paul Walsh
Charlie Williams
Clive Wilson
Alex Young

Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2013-14

Manchester City Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2013-14

 

[paddy spur]

According to www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php all of our players will be back from injury in time for this game. Granted, they may not be match fit and need a week or two extra to get there - but it sure makes me wish for:

Lloris
Walker-Chiriches-Vertonghen-Rose
Sandro
Dembele Paulinho
Lamela Ade Eriksen

Lamela instead of lennon? never gonna happen you need proven premiership players in this match Lamela is just not there yet play him the europas and ease his way in in cameo roles as a sub in tier 2 premiership matches. Then next season he will be ready to fly. Swearing in English reading Shakespeare an aficionado of the great British breakfast sending black puddings back to Argentina.

 

[Rosie47]

If TS places the returning Vertonghen at LB I forsee a transfer request being put in before too long.

 

[docomospur]

I've got a feeling Timmy won't drop Daws and Bentaleb.

 

[Nutter-Naylor]

I've got a tenner on Dembele & 2-1 at 125-1. Free money.

 

[jimmyriggle]

Just read that it looks like negredo won't be fit to play against us

Aguero had to play 90 mins yesterday and pellegrini said he was only supposed to play 60.

It's all set up for another dzeko goal bonanza isn't it?

 

[ArtyB]

“I know there’s a lot of talk about holding midfield players, and I’m always arguing with Tim and Chris about this – and they agree"

Why is he always arguing if they agree?

 

[ArcspacE]

Bentaleb off - Capoue on, please

 

[HeartyCOYS]

Replays there, Dawson is well onside.

Fuck

 

[JDK]

Of course we actually show some heart, battle back into the game. Then we have a goal disallowed wrongly and have a wrongly given red card/penalty. Totally destroys all the effort we put in.

So fucking #spursy. I feel ill.

 

[1882]

Thought you were at the game?

No, unfortunately, I couldn't get a ticket 'cos of all the people who wanted to sit silent for 80 minutes and leave early!

Some of our fans don't DESERVE to be let anywhere near the ground sometimes!

 

[zin]

Conceding 5 at home with a player sent off, some managers get the sack for that.

 

[JDK]

I really hope Sherwood has a go at the officials in his postgame comments. Shambolic stuff today from them.

 

[1882]

£500 million team, some paid match officials and still they need to injure Dembele and cheat to win. Utter scum, can't believe I'm saying this but I hope Chelsea or Woolwich beat them to the title.

I wouldn't go that far!

 

[John Thomas]

the last time we conceded 5 at home we sacked the man in charged the following morning. On that basis, I'm fully expecting, and hoping, to see van gaal in charge for this weekends game at Hull

 

[AlMacca_]

Imo we really haven't improved under Sherwood at all, the team has benefited from Adebayor coming in with a point to prove and Rose offering better balance at left back. We've played a few teams at very favourable times as well (Stoke, Utd, Swansea). But aside from that we are now starting games with no idea what the plan is. If we can make to half time then we seem to sort ourselves out.

We were battered again in the first half today, which is no great surprise as Crystal Palace did the same. Defensively we were chasing shadows with no shape to the team and offensively we barely completed a pass. There's no way watching that game you would believe that we actually had the extra man in midfield. The Bentaleb experiment has to end now, the boy doesn't actually fill any role within the team.

The match seemed very similar to the Liverpool home game, after that game all every went on about was the players heads going down and the lack of fight - that was all still evident today.......it probably doesn't actually mean all that much, it's just difficult to keep a spirited tempo to your play for nearly half a game with 10 men against a really in form team.

jesus christ. we've clearly improved under him. saying otherwise is just plain retarded. United were in their best form of the season when we played them so I;d hardly call it a favourable time to play them.

for what it's worth i don't think bentaleb should have started unless he started with capoue.

cheers for posting the biggest load of shite ive ever read online.

 

[Shnadsy]

Just want to chuck it out there, as much as he is criticised, Chadli would have been the best option on LW today.
Lennon had a dire performance too, Lamela for Hull please!

 

[Mick Cooper]

How fucking sad are some people - that they use a loss to possibly the best side in the world (certainly top 3) to either hobbyhorse their irrational dislike for the manager, individual players or the board of the club?
We don't get to compete with clubs like city, because they are no longer city - they are Middle East Oil United, playing in our league.
Deal with it, and be thankful you support a team at the top of the premier, and not Accrington Stanley or Worksop Town.
Some of you need to grow up.

 

[sammyspurs]

You may have something there Sammy..
The reason i opted to rest Bentaleb was due to him being young and inexperienced. I wouldn't want him to have a torrid game and lose any confidence he has built up.

This is not a game for the feint hearted and could ruin a sensitive player..

Id have nothing against dropping Bentaleb to bolster the middle....imo though, starting Lamela in this game would not be strengthening us.

 

[cahspur]

If we win, Woolwich potentially go 4 points clear.

Just saying

Yes, it is because of this I see this match as a win-win.

We win: Excellent bonus three points in our push for fourth with a superb confidence boost as a kicker.

We draw: Every point is valuable, and a point against this City side is nothing to scoff at.

We lose: It helps to keep the title out of the hands of les Arse and Chelsea.

Nothing but good results from a Spurs perspective, but of course we favor the win. Should be an enjoyable occasion to watch how our lads handle a far stronger team at home under Sherwood.