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Full Record of Spurs -v- Blackburn Rovers
Prem Pl W D L For-Ag Pts
Home 17 9 3 5 25- 22 30
Away 16 6 4 6 18- 14 22
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Total(Prem) 33 15 7 11 43- 36 52
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Football Lge
Home(Div 1) 24 16 4 4 63- 30 36
Away(Div 1) 24 5 5 14 23- 50 15
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Total(Div 1) 48 21 9 18 86- 80 51
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Football Lge
Home(Div 2) 6 5 0 1 22- 8 10
Away(Div 2) 6 2 2 2 9- 7 6
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Total(Div 2) 12 7 2 3 31- 15 16
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Total(Prem) 33 15 7 11 43- 36 52
Total(Div 1) 48 21 9 18 86- 80 51
Total(Div 2) 12 7 2 3 31- 15 16
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Grand Total 93 43 18 32 160-131 119
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Last Six Premiership results:-
Blackburn
Blackburn 0-2 Stoke
West Brom 1-3 Blackburn
S'derland 3-0 Blackburn
Blackburn 3-1 Liverpool
Chelsea 2-0 Blackburn
Blackburn 2-0 West Brom
Spurs
A. Villa 1-2 Spurs
Spurs 2-0 Newcastle
Spurs 1-0 Fulham
Everton 2-1 Spurs
Spurs 0-0 Man Utd
Newcastle 1-1 Spurs
Pos P W D L F-A GD Pts
5 Spurs 23 10 8 5 32-26 6 38
8 Blackburn 24 9 4 11 31-37 -6 31
Gobber's gone to Glasgow!
The phrase has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? One of the hate figures of football, El Hadji Diouf, has left Blackburn for Glasgow Rangers in the recently closed transfer window. Diouf, who leaves a namesake Mame Diouf at Ewood Park, won himself no friends in and outside of Blackburn, when standing over and taunting QPR's Jamie Mackie in their recent FA Cup tie, after the QPR player suffered a broken leg. Diouf had not played since that game, and may perhaps be able to pass on a different type of "Glasgow kiss" over the border. Mind you, "Gobber" will be popular at Rangers, as it was Celtic fans that he spat at in 2003 when playing for Liverpool. He's been around a bit in the North of England since then.
Enough of notoriety. This match will be keenly contested by two teams who were despatched from the FA Cup last week-end. Rovers lost 3-1 in front of only 26,000 fans at Villa Park, and their recently re-signed Paraguayan striker Roque Santa Cruz suffered a hamstring injury that will force him to miss this game and two or three to come.
It was a Sam Allardyce Blackburn side that came to The Lane in November and lost 4-2. A month later he was out of Ewood Park, given his cards by new owners The Venky Group, whose chairman stated they had set a target of reaching the Premier League's top four. Coach Steve Keane was appointed caretaker and has since been given the job on a full time basis, with a contract until June 2013. Under Kean's leadership, Rovers have continued to have an up and down season, but they are in the right half of the table, and a win today would put them within 4 points of Spurs, so European football is a realistic target for them, although the top four is surely out of their reach.
Blackburn recently achieved their first league "double" of the season over West Brom, who they beat 3-1 on 28th December at The Hawthorns, with two goals by Nikola Kalinic, and 2-0 in the return, with goals either side of half-time. Last season, Rovers were one of our "Double" victims. Goalkeeper Paul Robinson will be greeted with the usual raucous cheers by the visiting fans.
Apart from the absence of Santa Cruz, Rovers will give late fitness tests to Ryan Nelsen and Gael Givet. Brett Emerton is hardly likey to feature after his return from Saturday's Asian Cup Final in Qatar. Blackburn's goals come from various quarters, including the ever dangerous Morten Ganst Pedersen, who has played more minutes of Premier League football than any of his team-mates this season.
The already publicised team news for Spurs is not good. Michael Dawson will serve his one match suspension following the red card at Fulham on Sunday. That leads to a reported crisis in defence, with Ledley King and Younes Kaboul having gone under the knife this week. William Gallas is reported as doubtful with his hip injury, but i expect him to start in favour of Jonathan Woodgate, who has been quoted as a possible starter by Harry Redknapp, but is likely to start on the bench. Bale is out and Tom Huddlestone remains out, possibly for a longer time than we already knew.
What has not been made public is the report (on a Croatian site) that Luka Modric has had to have an appendix operation, so he will also be absent, and will surely miss the next few games. I also understand that Steven Pienaar may have suffered an injury in training today.
All this injury news, if confirmed, gives us more than usual to worry about, on top of the poor form displayed on Sunday. However, there is no reason why we should not see a 4-4-2 with Van der Vaart on one flank and Lennon on the other, with Jenas and Palacios in the middle, behind two of our three remaining strikers - Defoe, Crouch and Pavlyuchenko.
All in all, it's enough of a worry to make me less confident than usual about our chances, and I think we may have to settle for a draw. There will be goals, of course!
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