Sevilla Vs Spurs

This is the biggest game of the season against one of the best, if not the best team, in the UEFA cup. These are the type of games we should be involved in every season and it is great to see us hit some form in the league that is pushing us back into the European places.

These is going to be a tough game and we will need to play to our stregths - attacking with pace using the width to our advantage. Gardner is still out and Rocha is cup tied so that leaves us with one fully fit centre half in Michael Dawson. It is expected Chimbonda will start alongside him in the back four although King has travelled. I doubt he will play. Chimbomnda has played in that position before but he will need to be at his best to keep Kanoute and co quiet. All the talk has been about Kanoute but his goal scoring exploits have mainly come in the league - he has not been banging them in, as the press would have you believe, in the UEFA cup. However we all know he can be brilliant when he wants to be so Dawson will have a big job in controlling the back four. If Chimbonda starts at centre back Stalteri will play right back with Lee at left back. Although a makeshift back four the same three plus King last season was the fourth meanest defence in the Premiership - ok, a lot of that is to do with King but Lee is having his best season for us and Stalteri has played many times in the Champions League.

The midfield should pick itself with Lennon right, Malbranque left and Zokora and Jenas in the middle. I felt JJ was a bit deep against Reading so I hope to see more runs forward from him leaving Zokora to protect the back four. Up front will be Berbatov and probably Robbie Keane.

Defeat here is not the end of our UEFA cup campaign as we get them back to White Hart Lane next week but obviously we want to avoid it. The perfect result will be to make our run 9 wins on the bounce in the UEFA cup and extend our own British record of most wins in a row in European competition.

I came across this YouTube video, via FTL, to remind you of some other good times in Europe.



COYS!!!!