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· Sunderland 1 Spurs 2 - 12.02.11
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Full League Record against Sunderland
Premier Pl W D L For-Ag Pts
Home 11 9 1 1 23 - 9 28
Away 10 4 2 4 15 -14 14
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Total(Prem) 21 13 3 5 38 -23 42
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Football Lge
Home (Div 1) 37 14 12 11 57 -45 42
Away (Div 1) 37 8 11 18 31 -60 29
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Total(Div 1) 74 22 23 29 88-105 71
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Football Lge
Home (Div 2) 1 0 0 1 2 - 3 0
Away (Div 2) 1 1 0 0 2 - 1 2
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Total(Div 2) 2 1 0 1 4 - 4 2
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Total(Prem) 21 13 3 5 38 -23 42
Total(Div 1) 74 22 23 29 88 -105 71
Total(Div 2) 2 1 0 1 4 - 4 2
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Grand Total 97 36 26 35 130-132 114
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Last Six Premiership results:-
Sunderland
West Brom 4-0 S'derland
Newcastle 1-1 S'derland
S'derland 1-0 Liverpool
Blackburn 2-0 S'derland
S'derland 3-1 QPR
Man City 3-3 S'derland
Spurs
Arsenal 5-2 Spurs
Spurs 1-3 Man Utd
Everton 1-0 Spurs
Spurs 1-1 Stoke
Chelsea 0-0 Spurs
Spurs 3-1 Swansea
Pos P W D L F-A GD Pts
4 Spurs 31 17 7 7 56-36 20 58
9 S'derland 31 11 8 12 42-37 5 41
Time for an Easter Rising
There was a time when two games at Easter was the staple diet of all football teams, including the Premier League. The lower tiers do still maintain that feature in their football calendar as a rule, but it is 6 years now since the Premier League had such a week-end. In the 2005-06 season, Spurs approached Easter in fourth place, a position they had held since December. They won 1-0 on Easter Saturday at Goodison Park, thanks to a Robbie Keane penalty, but on the Monday, lost 2-1 at home to Manchester United. This was the season of "lasagne-gate", and we lost that fourth place on the last day.
Now we sit in fourth place again, after we had held third place for four months between November and March. However, thanks to our win over Swansea last week and Arsenal's defeat at QPR, we go into the week-end fixtures level on points with our local rivals. (As always, of course, I use the term "locals" loosely). Arsenal face title-chasing Man City on Sunday, and if they drop more points, and we better their result, we can regain that precious third place. A win at home to Norwich on Monday would cement that hold, before Arsenal travel to Wolves later in the week. Chelsea face Wigan at home, then have their Derby game at Craven Cottage on Monday.
All this hope depends upon Spurs coming away from Sunderland with at least a point, and hopefully a win. That won't be easy against a side which was leading 3-1 at The Etihad stadium last week until succumbing late in that game. Martin O'Neill was appointed in early December, and could not affect his side's first result at Molineux. His side showed resilience at White Hart Lane on December 18th, but fell to Roman Pavlyuchenko's last league goal for Tottenham Hotspur. It was in fact Pav's only Premier Leagaue goal this season. (Spurs 1 Sunderland 0 - 18.12.11)
After that defeat, O'Neill took the "Mackems" on a run which led to only one loss in 8 league games, and progress to the FA Cup quarter-finals. The locals were happy, but recent form has been somewhat indifferent, with a surprising 4-0 defeat at The Hawthorns, and defeats at Blackburn, and then at home to Everton in that FA Cup quarter-final replay. Last week, it looked as if Sunderland would become the first side to win a game at The Etihad this season. They might have won a league "double", but they do still have the honour of being the first this season to even take a Premier League point off Man City at their home.
Sunderland remain at times an uncompromising side. They face an FA charge of failing to control their players last week at The Etihad, when referee Phil Dowd was crowded by Sunderland players after he awarded a penalty to the home side. Sunderland are not the worst of teams when it comes to discipline though, standing mid-table in the Fair Play League, with 50 bookings and 3 red cards. 11 of those bookings are down to Lee Cattermole, who recently served a four-match ban. Striker Stephane Sessegnon has also had a recent three match ban, after getting sent off at Newcastle in the recent Derby game. Sessegnon has scored 8 goals for Sunderland in all games, 7 of which have been in the league. Level with him on the league goal tally are ex-Arsenal men Nicklas Bendtner, and Sebastian Larsson, who can take a mean free kick.
Sunderland have been missing one former Man Utd defender Wes Brown since January with a knee injury, and Titus Bramble since December. Bramble has non-football related issues to deal with too. Another former United man, John O'Shea should be fit to face Spurs.
Spurs have no new injury worries, and welcomed back Aaron Lennon, albeit off the bench, last Sunday. Spurs will surely go with their newly trusted 4-2-3-1 formation, which will probably mean that Lennon has to start on the bench again. Two games in two days should give several non-starters at The Stadium of Light a game against Norwich on Monday.
With our home win this season, we edged ahead of Sunderland in our head to head league match record. It was our 36th win. Our 35th win came here last February, when we had Modric, Bale and Van der Vaart missing. (Sunderland 1 Spurs 2 - 12.02.11) Asamoah Gyan (now playing his football in the United Arab Emirates) gave the home side an 11th minute lead. Michael Dawson equalised just before the break, then Spurs Odyssey man of the match Niko Kranjcar scored a cracking 57th minute winner. This was our third successive win, and a fourth came the following Tuesday in the San Siro, where Spurs achieved a simply fantastic 1-0 win against AC Milan.
It's games like that in the San Siro that we seek for Spurs next season. Every game means everything to us at the moment, but do not discount Sunderland, who will have their eyes on an outside chance of creeping into a potential Europa League spot, so they have more than just pride to play for. It's going to be tough, but I rate Spurs' chances so much that I'm going for a 2-0 win!
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