Spurs v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[Somniloquism]

Romero banned.

Oh bugger, that strengthens them.

Saves some of our players from potential injury though.

[Sexual Ealing]

Even more inexplicable is how many of them hate us. Guess it's a compliment!

I think it's mainly because we have the High Wycombe Goikoetxea playing at right-back (a lot of the recent stuff genuinely is that, weirdly).

[paul_e]

Surely most people hate them because they snuck into the big 6 based entirely on location. They've won almost nothing, been pretty average for huge parts of the premier league era and have no real right to be lumped in that group but try to act like they belong.

[Rigadon]

That and that fucking slow song.  ******. 

[Villa Lew]

That and that fucking slow song.  ******.

And it's not even their song!

[PaulWinch again]

It’s a curious one - they’re in a bad place, we’ll probably rotate and this is very obviously lower priority. Quite hard to call.

[BoVillan esq]

Seriously hope we don't make the grave mistake of not taking this seriously, everything else is very far from done, I hope we don't rotate ourselves out of the competition and certainly not against a Premiership side, think we can win this, Spurs are not doing well.

Still a huge tournament which is why in spite of there true intentions you will see the big clubs fighting like F*** for that lovely summers afternoon at Wembley and the promise of silverware.

Come on Villa lets do this. 

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Meanwhile, January signing Alysson could be involved at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Emery said: “Today, we are training now and we expect to be ready for tomorrow, but we need to check him in the training session.

“Of course, he did a few training (sessions) with us and he had a small stop for one small injury.

“But he trained yesterday, he has to adapt in everything, but we want to try and include him as soon as possible in our meetings, in our moments gathering for dinner, lunch, breakfast.

“Try to get close with his team-mates and hopefully he can travel to London and be in the match tomorrow against Tottenham.”

Meal times are taken in reverse ?

[Sexual Ealing]

I think they might be on heroin.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

It’s a curious one - they’re in a bad place, we’ll probably rotate and this is very obviously lower priority. Quite hard to call.

Yeah. I'm going for a narrow defeat for this one.