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Spurs v Madrid....part deux

 
DAVE400 2017-11-01 14:26:19 

What's in store?

 
DAVE400 2017-11-01 16:26:57 

Quality team this Spurs squad

 
DAVE400 2017-11-01 16:58:22 

Gooaaaaallllll

2 - 0

 
DAVE400 2017-11-01 17:06:54 

Ninesy ....come eeennnnn!!! big grin

 
JohnBull 2017-11-01 17:18:46 

Nines at his local buying pints for every puss and dog that come in.

Where is that arsehole who was saying that Spurs is a one horse town ...?

 
DAVE400 2017-11-01 17:21:56 

Madrid pulls one back

 
tops 2017-11-01 17:45:43 

In reply to JohnBull
U know JB, this Spurs team has improved this year, esp when Harry is in it. Huge win this, I'm happy for my bro Nines.

 
tops 2017-11-01 17:47:08 

In reply to JohnBull
O btw, I C your team missed another pen. Why don't they give the German E C to take them... lol lol

 
NineMiles 2017-11-01 17:53:06 

In reply to DAVE400

Ninesy is at Wembley.... Can't express how happy I am right now
So so proud of the lads

Real who?

Come on you Spurs lol lol lol lol

 
NineMiles 2017-11-01 18:08:25 

In reply to JohnBull

Dats the idiot Halliwell... He's facking clueless, just a wannabe!

Tough group everyone said and we breezed through to the knockout stages.

Proud of my boys! lol lol

 
NineMiles 2017-11-01 18:09:03 

In reply to tops

Thanks bro! lol

 
DAVE400 2017-11-01 18:13:50 

In reply to NineMiles

Well played indeed

 
Maispwi 2017-11-01 19:10:03 

In reply to DAVE400

Ninesy glad bag buss

 
Oilah 2017-11-01 19:41:08 

English clubs doing great in Europe so far smile

 
JohnBull 2017-11-01 23:01:11 

In reply to tops

Man City, Spurs and Liverpool are the teams that play the most attacking football in the league and of the three, Spurs have the best defence. They are the best balanced team in the league and have done so by spending the least of the so called "big six". The only thing phucking them up is squad strength in depth. In that regard, they are the weakest of the big six. But when Pochettino can pick his best XI, they can play football with anybody.

 
JohnBull 2017-11-01 23:08:55 

In reply to tops

Milner took all pens last season and missed only one. Now that he is no longer a sure starter, Klopp has been trying to find a replacement. So far neither Firminho nor Salah have been able to make the role their own.

 
NineMiles 2017-11-02 04:06:24 

In reply to JohnBull

They are the best balanced team in the league and have done so by spending the least of the so called "big six".


Yep...many managers claim they are the best by spending millions and buying players - Pep, Mourinho, Conte just sign cheques.

Spurs and Pochettino develop and make them stars while playing beautiful game and yes, depth in the squad can be our downfall!

Woke up this morning and it wasn't a dream...Sensational football last night by Spurs! lol lol

 
Halliwell 2017-11-02 07:43:05 

In reply to NineMiles

Very good football indeed

Kane plays- Tottenham wins

One man outfit

A la Kante in ANY side

 
DAVE400 2017-11-02 08:38:03 

Goal.com tore Madrid a new one.

 
DAVE400 2017-11-02 08:39:04 

In reply to Halliwell

Steups...did you see Alli and Ericksson boss the game?

 
NineMiles 2017-11-02 09:32:09 

In reply to DAVE400

Not to mention the defenders. Even after Alderweireld went of injured after 20 mins or so, Eric Dier slotted at the back and together with Vertonghen and Davidson Sanchez kept Ronaldo and co out until the 80th min.

Trippier and winks were also immense!

And we need to keep hold of Pochettino for the future success of the team!

 
NineMiles 2017-11-02 17:55:54 


Shortly before half-time on a thrilling, boisterous European night, there was a moment of rare comedy at Wembley. Tackling back in his own half, Harry Winks let an arm trail lightly across Casemiro’s shoulder, only for the Brazilian to reel back, stunned, tumbling over backwards desperately. Casemiro didn’t want the ball. He wanted a break. He wanted his free‑kick.

Ten minutes into the second half something similar happened. As Marcelo rumbled upfield Dele Alli sprinted 40 metres in an arc to harry him and eventually concede another foul as Marcelo crumpled gratefully. Marcelo didn’t really want the ball, either.

Alli bellowed at the fourth official, then at his manager. A minute later, still running on anger, he did something both wicked and beautiful to Casemiro just outside the Real Madrid box. Picking up a loose ball Alli slalomed forward, put Casemiro on his backside again with a lovely playground feint, then drove a shot into the back off the net via a deflection off Sergio Ramos.

Spurs were 2-0 up. Alli had his second goal. The stadium gurgled and bellowed, consumed by the most engrossing night of elite-level football involving a bunch of Englishmen this place has seen since its re-inception as modern Wembley.


Tottenham’s English core put Real Madrid stars in the shade

A beautiful write up!

 
Halliwell 2017-11-02 17:58:42 

Congrats to Tottenham
They are at the level of Girona now, who also beat Real this week

Maybe a play off is in order

 
NineMiles 2017-11-02 17:59:30 

And here is another:

It was one of the greatest nights in Tottenham’s history. It was better than beating Internazionale 3-1, probably the equal of those fraught nights in 1983-84 when Bayern Munich, Austria Vienna, Hajduk Split and Anderlecht were overcome on the way to the Uefa Cup. Almost whatever happens over the next three decades, it is safe to assume that in 2050 Christian Eriksen’s goal will still be included in the pre-match White Hart Lane montage as Danny Blanchflower’s voice, the crackle of time even more pronounced, explains once again that the game is about glory.

And this was glorious. The European champions were humbled. As Eriksen pointed out, if Spurs had shown a little more composure, they would have had more. If Harry Kane had been fully fit, perhaps, they would have had more. If Spurs had been able to believe quite what was happening, they would have had more. Dele Alli admitted he was astonished by the amount of space Madrid had allowed them.


Tottenham’s defeat of Real Madrid is a warning to Europe’s super-clubs

 
NineMiles 2017-11-02 18:01:03 

Real Madrid in crisis after Spurs defeat