Lloris and Adebayor go head to head
Nearly 200 votes were cast in the post-Newcastle match survey, and from the outset it was clear that the man of the match award would be between goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, and leading league goal-scorer Emmanuel Adebayor.
Adebayor has now scored 8 league goals in 11 starts, all of which have been under Tim Sherwood's management. Adebayor needs just twow more goals in all competitions to overhaul the 10 goal totals of Roberto Soldado and Jermain Defoe.
In our last five games, the man of the match vote has gone to either Adebayor or Lloris. Hugo has led the vote in three of our last four games.
These two players are the current front runners for our Player of the Season vote.
Nabil Bentaleb won his best vote of the season so far (7.9) and continues to justify Sherwood's faith in his 19 year old protege. I maintain that Bentaleb looked out of his depth against Yaya Toure and Manchester City, but I have often sung his praises in his blossoming Spurs career. Bentaleb can claim two direct assists for the Newcastle game, and clearly thrived in a more attacking role.
This was Hugo Lloris's 20th clean sheet for club and country this season, and the third in the last 6 games. Such a performance against Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool in March would be more than welcome!
· See the spursometer for this game in full
Results 11-12.02.14
Cardiff 0-0 A. Villa
Hull 0-1 S'hampton
West Ham 2-0 Norwwich
West Brom 1-1 Chelsea
Arsenal 0-0 Man Utd
Everton P C. Palace
Man City P S'derland
Newcastle 0-4 Spurs
Stoke 1-1 Swansea
Fulham 2-3 Liverpool
Barclays Premier League
P W D L F-A GD Pts
1. Chelsea 26 17 6 3 48-21 27 57
2. Arsenal 26 17 5 4 48-26 22 56
3. Man City 25 17 3 5 68-27 41 54
4. Liverpool 26 16 5 5 66-32 34 53
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5. Spurs 26 15 5 6 36-32 4 50
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6. Everton 25 12 9 4 37-26 11 45
7. Man Utd 26 12 6 8 41-31 10 42
8. S'hampton 26 10 9 7 37-29 8 39
9. Newcastle 26 11 4 11 32-38 -6 37
10. Swansea 26 7 7 12 33-36 -3 28
11. West Ham 26 7 7 12 28-33 -5 28
12. A. Villa 26 7 5 12 27-36 -9 28
13. Hull 26 7 6 13 25-31 -6 27
14. Stoke 26 6 9 11 27-41 -14 27
15. C. Palace 25 8 2 15 18-34 -16 26
16. Norwich 26 6 7 13 19-39 -20 25
17. West Brom 26 4 12 10 30-38 -8 24
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18. S'derland 25 6 6 13 25-38 -13 24
19. Cardiff 26 5 7 14 19-44 -25 22
20. Fulham 26 6 2 18 26-58 -32 20
