Big win 4-0 over Ludo today in Europa League. Not many saw it I'm sure in the middle of T-giving and NFL



1 Venicius scores his first goal for Spurs

https://streamja.com/ewPlq

2 And his second on a gift from Dele

https://streamja.com/P3rZE

3 Check out this Winks goal from 50+ yards out

https://streamja.com/7akRp

4 Lucas gets the 4th goal

https://streamja.com/OnKRb


Also Dane Scarlett played becoming the youngest ever at 16 year +247 days old.


Win moves us into a tie with Antwerp in Group play with 2 games left.

Really dominant. Don't remember seeing them touch the ball in our box

Huge game today. Starting at 10:30 at Chelsea. NBCSN

A win would put us in first alone after Liverpool tied Brighton yesterday.
A tie would leave us tied with Leicester for 1st.
A loss would move Chelsea into a tie with Liverpool one point ahead of us.

Startin Rodon.

A draw away was good enough to go back to the top, and unless Leicester scores a ton tonorrow, we'll stay on top thanks to the very nice goal differential we've put together so far.

Bryan98 said:

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A draw away was good enough to go back to the top, and unless Leicester scores a ton tonorrow, we'll stay on top thanks to the very nice goal differential we've put together so far.

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It was a pretty good game.

We actually looked good on possession when we had it and counter attacks getting several good chances. Their best chance was an offsides. Otherwise we mostly held them to low percentage chances at best and not too many free kicks or corners. Reviews said Chelsea had more chances although I didn't feel that way. Lo Celso should have scored late - a low shot to either side or even another pass it's probably a goal. His weird lofted touch shot was the worst choice there.

We caught quite a break in the FA Cup draw.

We play Marine the second week of January....they are at level 8 (EIGHT) of the EFL and the lowest by far remaining team. There is one level 6 and one level 5 club the rest are al level 4 or above.

That's in the Northern Premier League Division One Northwest.

The game is in Crosby at their 3,100 seat stadium.

I love the huge clubs going to tiny clubs in the cup. Can you imagine if you were a lifelong fan of the Northfarthingshire Rovers FC and they are having a once in a generation run into the tournament? Your grandfather played for NRFC. Your best mate Nigel who works at the mill with you plays for them. And one of the biggest clubs in the world is going to come to your tiny ground in Northfarthingshire and change in your tiny changing room and play on your pitch.

That's magical.

Domestic cups are awesome. I was very fortunate to see the Houston Dynamo win the US Open Cup a couple of years ago - which I believe qualifies as the biggest trophy I've ever seen one of my teams win in person.

I think of it more from the players point of view.

these hometown unsung heroes that nobody knows gets to share the pitch with Bale or Kane or Son - likely not all of them as we would rest a few that need it. But still.

It's like a local semi pro team getting to play the Packers. You likely get annihilated but you got to play with Aaron Rodgers

I'm glad this thread exists. I'm just getting into soccer and I know absolutely nothing lol. But learning!

How about Rodon? Had two scary mistakes but otherwisse was excellent....can't believe Davison Sanchez has fell so far out of favor

ODraconianDevil said:

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I'm glad this thread exists. I'm just getting into soccer and I know absolutely nothing lol. But learning!

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What made you pick Tottenham (if you have picked a team)? If you need info and history read their team pages or the wiki page on the club. Great stuff.

I know personally I went through that process around 2006-07. I didn't want to just be a bandwagon jumper on one of the Big4 at the time (ManU, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea) who always seemed to be the title teams and cup winners until ManCity broke through. It's a lot more wide open now with Leicester winning a few years ago. although now it seems to be among those Big4 and ManCity making a Big5.

Tottenham have had their good years and plenty of top 4 or 5 finishes of late but breaking through to win the league or one of the cups would be surreal to me. Lots of joy but plenty of heartache in being a Spurs fan. But we sort of revel in it.

I definitely gravitated to Spurs after researching them - so much in common with the Aggies - the yells, the outcast sort of status, the pride in their blue collar image, fanatical devotion, and then of course unfortunately their lack of breaking through to the top. Spurs have a BAS-like condition as well. But like the Aggies now the new stadium, one electric player that has galvanized them, a deep roster, and a championship coach.....maybe this year or very soon.

COYS!!!!!

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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ODraconianDevil said:

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I'm glad this thread exists. I'm just getting into soccer and I know absolutely nothing lol. But learning!

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What made you pick Tottenham (if you have picked a team)? If you need info and history read their team pages or the wiki page on the club. Great stuff.

I know personally I went through that process around 2006-07. I didn't want to just be a bandwagon jumper on one of the Big4 at the time (ManU, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea) who always seemed to be the title teams and cup winners until ManCity broke through. It's a lot more wide open now with Leicester winning a few years ago. although now it seems to be among those Big4 and ManCity making a Big5.

Tottenham have had their good years and plenty of top 4 or 5 finishes of late but breaking through to win the league or one of the cups would be surreal to me. Lots of joy but plenty of heartache in being a Spurs fan. But we sort of revel in it.

I definitely gravitated to Spurs after researching them - so much in common with the Aggies - the yells, the outcast sort of status, the pride in their blue collar image and then of course unfortunately their lack of breaking through to the top. Spurs have a BAS-like condition as well. But like the Aggies now the new stadium, one electric player that has galvanized them, a deep roster, and a championship coach.....maybe this year or very soon.

COYS!!!!!

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Haha those were basically all of my reasons too! This summer I was just missing sports and thought might as well jump into soccer, so I did some research on PL teams and that was kind of the conclusion I came to! Just felt right.

I've mainly just been following scores and kind of familiarizing myself with names and all that so far, I'm picking it up...slowly.

And thanks for the warm welcome haha!

Have a newborn. Great way to realize that live sports at 6am can really grow into an obsession.

t - cam said:

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Have a newborn. Great way to realize that live sports at 6am can really grow into an obsession.

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Yep mine are grown now but used to love watching games before anyone was up. Saturday and Sunday then has morning soccer and afternoon football....and when it is not football season my sports day is done early.

Also midweek games are usually primetime over there which means afternoon at work - I ran a dual screen for years mostly so I could have a game up on the second monitor.

Ya'll newcomers (although I'm only a 13 year watcher) are lucky. 10 years ago finding games was so much harder. Televised ones were less common and without streaming services you were beholden to your cable or satellite package and generally had to have the top level packages for all the odd sports channels. Spent a lot of time finding pirated streams but even those were not as easy or common and often a weird foreign language. Lucky if you actually got to see 50% of games (especially the domestic Cup games FA Cup or Carabo Cup)

Now I see about 95% of games probably with my streaming package and I have both Peacock and CBS AA right now. Paying a few bucks a month more to get all the games is so nice. All of it is still much less than I used to pay for cable with the monster sports packages to get as much as possible.

Anyway I am happy about the exposure though I think it is bringing more fans to the game. I know a lot of soccer fans now where I used to feel like one of the few.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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t - cam said:

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Have a newborn. Great way to realize that live sports at 6am can really grow into an obsession.

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Yep mine are grown now but used to love watching games before anyone was up. Saturday and Sunday then has morning soccer and afternoon football....and when it is not football season my sports day is done early.

Also midweek games are usually primetime over there which means afternoon at work - I ran a dual screen for years mostly so I could have a game up on the second monitor.

Ya'll newcomers (although I'm only a 13 year watcher) are lucky. 10 years ago finding games was so much harder. Televised ones were less common and without streaming services you were beholden to your cable or satellite package and generally had to have the top level packages for all the odd sports channels. Spent a lot of time finding pirated streams but even those were not as easy or common and often a weird foreign language. Lucky if you actually got to see 50% of games (especially the domestic Cup games FA Cup or Carabo Cup)

Now I see about 95% of games probably with my streaming package and I have both Peacock and CBS AA right now. Paying a few bucks a month more to get all the games is so nice. All of it is still much less than I used to pay for cable with the monster sports packages to get as much as possible.

Anyway I am happy about the exposure though I think it is bringing more fans to the game. I know a lot of soccer fans now where I used to feel like one of the few.

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I've been a spurs fan for about 9 years but my obsession hit its stride when we had our son almost 7 years ago. I'd happily get up with the baby at the crack of dawn. Didn't really even have to be spurs. Started watching whatever game was on.

FYI

Tottenham at LASK Thursday 11:55am

A win and we clinch advancing out of the Group Stage in the Europa League.

I find this to be a great site for seeing upcoming games.

https://www.livesoccertv.com/

Click Thursday on the nav bar to see those games. Click on the game to see details including broadcast info.

This one is on CBS AA and Fubo TV.

You can also click Tottenham on there or under the Teams link at the top to see all Spurs games. Most broadcast info isn't decided for soccer until a week or so ahead of time.

LASK started very aggresive here....Spurs are reeling a bit. LASK have to win or they are eliminated.

Our lineup is a mashup of regular starters and bench players.

Very cold there: 30 degrees F but clear skies in Linz Austria tonight (7pm there).

Thought you said it was NEGATIVE 30 degrees there at first.

jeffk said:

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Thought you said it was NEGATIVE 30 degrees there at first.

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lol...i'll edit that

It was on-brand for your screen name...

awww crap. We had gotten momentum back and had scoring chances including a free kick from a handball just outside the box and a couple of corners.....

But LASK scored with the first half winding down. Turnover in our end and they raced the other way. We actually got back ok. But they got off a blast of a shot from 10+ yards outside the box to the lower right corner.

Ugh.

BOOM

In added time of first half Ndombele got a shot off and a handball inside the box for a penalty kick.

Bale boots it in on the penalty kick.

1-1

Halftime

Son scores at 55'

midfield turnover and Ndombele feeds Son on the run who finishes perfectly.


2-1 Spurs

Antwerp just conceded a goal and we're now in lead of group

Ugh. LASK just scored to level it 2-2.

HART should have done better. The shot was just to his right and he easily got an arm on it but it deflected into the goal. Grrrr.

83'

Holy Hell..... LASK conceded a penalty in their box.......

Delle Alli chips it in softly.

3-2 SPURS!!!!!

86'

This game is bonkers. 4 goals in the last 14 min + added time.

LASK just leveled again. a blast from outside the box 2+ minutes into added time.

3-3

Ugh. I mean this eliminated LASK anyway as we have the win over them and a tie and the GD.

The standings in Group J now.


ANT 12
TOT 10
LASK 7
LUDO 1

We play ANT next week on Dec 10. We have to win to win the group but we will advance regardless.

I hate the way Jose played this. The 5 in the back invited the possession and shots.... Was hard to watch

You new fans be sure to check out Amazon Primes Spurs special on last year.

I was really hoping that show wouldn't change my opinion of mourinho but it did. I love him now.

I was very loyal to pochetino.

Same. It helps that he has the team in a good place, but I do find it interesting that Levy has seemingly misplaced the purse strings all of a sudden. Wonder how much of the recent success is attributable to the "winning mentality" and how much is due to having a side so strong Dele barely makes the bench in Europa league. Hope Poch finds success (preferably not at Man U)