We are punished by our failure to beat Birmingham at home,and now we are force to score as many goals as possible or wait for Devils to drop points.
Chelsea try to give their fight for the title with their 2-0 win over Spurs,despite the absence of their African strikers Kalou and Drogba because of the recent African Cup.
Liverpool,despite holding the last Champions League qualification spot,are threatened heavily by Man. City,Everton and Aston Villa thanks to Man City who lost 1-0 to Everton to enable the 4th place competition to be so exciting.
Blackburn came from behind to make Trotters suffer with 2-1 defeat at home ,Black Cat surprisingly stole 2 goals and three points from Pompey….
West Ham hammers from behind to beat Fulham 2-1,and the top loser this week is Newcastle for sure after they lost 6-0 to roaring Devils,and Arsenal may be 2nd loser for this week.
Reading failed to take advantage from Chelsea’s victory,all caused by Aston Villa who seems to be more determined to play Champions League this season.
Wigan managed to beat EPL bottom Derby to stay out from the relegation zone.
I’m absolutely disappointed with this result.We should grab full three points from this game.Yes,Birmingham did their job well on defending but we should do a better job than them because we are the EPL leader at that time.
Now,we are forced to wait Devils lose points,or score as many goals as possible.
I did watch the first-half replay,and the main problem is we can’t penetrate them good enough to score a goal and our possession were mainly focused on midfield game only,instead of going into the penalty box.
I didn’t mean our players wants to waste time,I mean we can’t find a proper strategy to score.And with our opponent’s hope to only draw this game,we are pressed for trouble.No wonder Devils only squeezed a 1-0 win over them even in Old Trafford.
I will comment further 12 hours later from this post.See you later.
Now,we are going to defend our place this weekend against Birmingham.Hopefully it would be easy game for us
Players
Senderos,Hleb and Adebayor is fit for this game.But Persie is out for this game due to flu.All our regular players can play this game when required.
Technical Details
Nothing but the usual 4-4-2.As Persie is out,the most probably striker pair is Dudu and Ade.If everything goes well,Bendtner could play as well but I don’t sure whether he has completed the match ban or not after being red-carded in the game against Everton.
Overall
It should be easy game for us if we take it seriously.We can’t afford to drop points in every match in this stage.
Other EPL match preview
Of course the most interesting matches this week are the match Newcastle vs. M.United and Chelsea vs. Spurs.As Magpies just fired Sam two days ago,it could be easy game for Devils if there are no managers to take over them in two days.
It’s different now in the other game.Tottenham has recovered very well under Ramos’s control.I think he has the process to change almost all his player.Chelsea on the other hand just hanging over their thread in all their wins recently,but it hangs at least.
Let’s see if Tottenham could cut their hanging thread
I think the result is quite fair for both teams;Spurs dominated the game at first-half and we pressed back at second-half,though we didn’t really manage to create some chances to score.
In fact,I think we had only one chance to score and thats where the equalizer came from.
Players
I’m quite surprised that Persie played first,instead of Dudu.Persie didn’t really managed to break through Tottenham’s tight defending and in fact,the whole team can’t really dominate the game.
Persie was substituted by Dudu at 2nd-half,and Djourou was substituted by Sagna at the same time.But we already down 1-0 that time.
The Game
We can’t create enough chances to score,I think we only created only one pure chances to score and thats where our goal came from.
We had to pay the price of playing our 2nd team midfielder.We somehow get bullied by more experienced players and we were controlled from the 10th minute onwards till the 1st half break.
I’m not saying that we should not play our youngsters in this game.In fact,this is a very good chance for them to see how typical EPL team could be.
Tottenham too created far more chances than we did but thankfully we defended it quite well and the luck was in our hands again.Their finishing was average.
I don’t think we would field 1st team players,although we are going to face full-forced and high flying Spurs.It’s our 2nd team players that gets us in semi-final and they should finish it,and hopefully they could get us the first silverware in this 2-3 seasons.
But as Persie has recovered now,he could use this match too to regain his feel on the field but I don’t think he would play for full 90 minutes.
Denilson is facing match suspension,as he got a red-card during the game against Blackburn two weeks ago.
Technical details
Again 4-4-2 is the best choice now,Dudu and Bendtner could be the strikers,and of course the team that played against Blackburn could be played against them.
Overall
This match is considered must-win match for us,for we need to have some sort of advantage to get into White Hart Lane.But our players matters the most,and we must trust them to win the game.
I’m worried about this game,because our 1st team just win luckily 2-1 against Spurs last month and now we are going to play our 2nd team against the same opponent.But again,we must have faith with our squad and I think it’s quite OK if we could give a good fight to them,at least.
