Tottingham Hotspur vs Stoke RUFC 29.12.13

[NorseYid]

Paulinho weaves through 3 defenders like Messi, then goes on to smash the ball into the 2nd tier like a sunday league player

 

[HeartyCOYS]

Paulinho attending the Aaron Lennon class of finishing

 

[HeartyCOYS]

This surely is our chance to win by more than one goal

 

[Chucklevision82]

Do we think this free-flowing footy is a product of Tim having more time with the team, and Pauli being back, or the fact that Stoke are giving us so much space?

The difference between this half and the game against the Baggies is quite apparent.

Edit: Thinking about it, it's probably just Pauli being back.

 

[zin]

Happy with that half. Second half should open up as Stoke need to find a goal.

 

[moley]

Paulinho weaves through 3 defenders like Messi, then goes on to smash the ball into the 2nd tier like a sunday league player

Proper Spursy, even when we're good, we need a silver lining.

 

[Danoir]

Paulinho & Eriksen ninjas!

 

[welshiespursboy]

Decent performance in the first half. As usual though we need to take our chances...at least we're creating them though

 

[HeroesAndVillains]

I'm happy. Strange feeling.

 

[NorseYid]

What an annoying bunch of retards Stoke fans are.

Are the calling everyone winning a freekick "cheats"?

 

[Pyro_era]

Lucky not to concede a penalty, but I've been very pleased with how we've played, dominated the first half. Let's keep it going lads!

 

[pakistani-spur]

fantastic first half

 

[Swhap]

Did I hear booing?

 

[TDub]

We look fantastic. We just can't finish. Thankfully Soldado is an amazing penalty taker.

 

[SinghYid]

Paulo has been a delight to watch.
You know why he's preforming this well, right?

Spoiler

Cause he read yesterday's papers of him being linked with Real Madrid...

 

[Mad Yid]

Roberto Soldado

20 appearances 10 goals :soldadowatch:

 

[NorseYid]

10 attempts, only 2 on target. Spursy!

Jokes aside, THIS is the first time this season in any competition where we have consistently kept an opposition team under pressure, mostly in their third, for an entire half a game of football.

 

[Super Jan Fan]

Mark Huges is a weak manager and this Stoke side are pretty light weight. But, we look pretty good - perhaps the best team performance this season so far. Second half still to see of course, but we have players getting in to space, one-two's between players, confidence and skill in midfield, passing it around well, lots of crosses to our strikers (how radical !), Fryers looks good today - I think it highlights that the system we are now playing takes some of the pressure of the defence whereas earlier this season every time we lost possesion we were in trouble defensively. Ade did well to get that penalty, good control and acrobatic shot to win it. They should have had a penalty from Dawson's terrible challenge....that is the only real blight on the game for us, and its nothing new from Dawson unfortunately.

 

[AlyB]

10 attempts, only 2 on target. Spursy!

Jokes aside, THIS is the first time this season in any competition where we have consistently kept an opposition team under pressure, mostly in their third, for an entire half a game of football.

u havent been watching europa league brah?

Seriously i think we have done this before though

 

[GlosYid]

we need to finish them off or else they will score a lucky goal off a corner or free kick