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Spurs v Manchester United Opta Preview

Fri 28 September 2001, 12:00|Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) Football Club is located in North London. The club is also known as Spurs. Tottenham's home ground is White Hart Lane. The club motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do).

Tottenham
White Hart Lane
Saturday 29 September
Manchester United
7 Games 6
ATTACKING
8 Goals scored 17
1.14 Ave goals per game 2.83
33% Shooting Accuracy 58%
9% Goals to shots % 19%
PASSING
3,007 Passes 3,374
75% Pass completion % 83%
DEFENDING
73% Tackle success rate % 74%
8 Goals conceded 10
1.14 Ave goals conceded per game 1.67
DISCIPLINE
96 Fouls 89
11 Yellow cards 4
11 Red cards 1
9,644 Opta Index Score 9,953

Tottenham v Manchester United

Manchester United need to dust themselves down and attempt to bounce back at the weekend following their devastating last-gasp defeat at the gleeful hands of Deportivo La Coruna on Tuesday night.

But a trip to White Hart Lane will evoke further bad memories as the champions crashed 3-1 at the same venue on the final day of last season. An irrelevant result for all concerned on the day admittedly, but a psychological boost to a Spurs side that has yet to produce back-to-back wins this term.

However, the north Londoners more than matched Liverpool in their last league outing, despite leaving Merseyside empty-handed, and are showing signs of improvement under Glenn Hoddle's watchful gaze.

The former England manager remained philosophical about the team's future after the narrow defeat at Anfield: "What we have to do is become more clinical. We played well here and against Chelsea but we've got nothing out of the games. That's the next piece of the jigsaw."

Les Ferdinand posed the greatest threat on the day and tested Jerzy Dudek with two drives, but he also fired the same number wide of the mark and has now landed just a third of his shots on target this season- the same disappointing rate as the entire Spurs team.

The hosts would do well to take a leaf out of the visitors' book when it comes to finishing power. United have scored twice as many goals as Tottenham and have forced the'keeper to try and stop an unrivalled 58% of their efforts.

In a bid to stop the Red Devils in their tracks, Hoddle now has defender Dean Richards at his disposal. The former Saint made half-a-century of defensive actions for the south coast club and won 82% of his tackles, proving that he will be a valuable asset to a side that has conceded as many goals as they have scored.

However, Richards may find himself under persistent pressure should he make his debut on Saturday, as United are far superior in possession than the Lilywhites. In fact only Arsenal have recorded a better pass completion rate in the opposition half than Alex Ferguson' s side this year.

Mark Willis

Match referee: J. Winter

This ref has handed out two red cards and 19 yellow cards in just four games. The refs say they are just following ze orders; the players get cards rescinded; the managers have an excuse as to why they lost, leaving the paying fans to suffer as games are ruined by dismissals. The beautiful game eh?



Referee's Name Fouls Penalties Yellow Cards Red Cards Ave Disc points
J. Winter 153 1 19 2 56.25
PLAYER HEAD-TO-HEAD
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Sheringham v van Nistelrooy

TEAM NEWS

Spurs' new signing Dean Richards will make his debut in the centre of defence where the club have injury problems. Gary Doherty, Goran Bunjevcevic and Antony Gardner are all out, and are joined on the injury list by Stephen Carr, Ben Thatcher, Tim Sherwood, Willem Korsten and Stephen Clemence. Steffen Iversen and Chris Armstrong are a long way from returning to the team. Wes Brown is injured so Ronny Johnsen and Laurent Blanc are expected to continue in central defence, while Nicky Butt should replace suspended captain, Roy Keane, in midfield. Dwight Yorke is injured, while David Beckham may be rested with a groin problem to be replaced by Luke Chadwick.

MATCH BETTING
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Match Result
Tottenham 5/2
Draw 9/4
Man Utd 10/11
Correct Score
Tottenham 1-0 8/1
Tottenham 2-0 14/1
Tottenham 2-1 12/1
Tottenham 3-0 40/1
Tottenham 3-1 33/1
Tottenham 3-2 33/1
Tottenham 4-0 100/1
Tottenham 4-1 100/1
Tottenham 4-2 100/1
Draw 0-0 8/1
Draw 1-1 11/2
Draw 2-2 14/1
Draw 3-3 50/1
Man Utd 1-0 6/1
Man Utd 2-0 7/1
Man Utd 2-1 7/1
Man Utd 3-0 14/1
Man Utd 3-1 14/1
Man Utd 3-2 25/1
Man Utd 4-0 40/1
Man Utd 4-1 33/1
Man Utd 4-2 50/1
Man Utd 5-0 100/1
Man Utd 5-1 100/1
Double Result
Tottenham/Tottenham 11/2
Tottenham/Draw 16/1
Tottenham/Man Utd 25/1
Draw/Tottenham 13/2
Draw/Draw 7/2
Draw/Man Utd 7/2
Man Utd/Tottenham 33/1
Man Utd/Draw 16/1
Man Utd/Man Utd 9/4
First Goalscorer
T Sheringham 6/1
L Ferdinand 13/2
S Rebrov 7/1
G Poyet 12/1
D Anderton 14/1
O Leonhardsen 16/1
T Sherwood 16/1
S Davies 20/1
C Ziege 25/1
Etherington 40/1
D Richards 40/1
L King 40/1
S Freund 40/1
C Perry 50/1
A Thelwell 66/1
M Taricco 66/1
No Goalscorer 8/1
V Nistelrooy 7/2
A Solskjaer 5/1
A Cole 5/1
D Yorke 5/1
P Scholes 6/1
D Beckham 9/1
J Veron 10/1
R Giggs 10/1
N Butt 20/1
L Chadwick 20/1
L Blanc 33/1
M Silvestre 40/1
D Irwin 40/1
R Wallwork 40/1
P Neville 50/1
G Neville 50/1
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