APOEL vs Tottenham CL Match Thread

[mpickard2087]

APOEL FC 0 - 3 SPURS
Kane (3)​

Spurs: Lloris (C), Trippier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Davies, Aurier (Llorente), Dier, Winks, Sissoko(Georgiou), Son, Kane (Nkoudou).

Apoel FC:

Official Site Match Centre
84 mins Yellow Card: Winks
83 mins Sub: Georgiou for Sisoko
74 mins Sub: Nkoudou for Kane
66 mins GOAL APOEL 0-3 SPURS : Harry Kane
Davies broke forward, Kane took over 35 yards out, played it wide to Trippier, continued his run and timed it to perfection to meet Trippier's cross and head home.
61 mins GOAL APOEL 0-2 SPURS : Harry Kane
Trippier played in Sissoko right side, measured cut back to Kane who controlled and buried from the edge of the box.
56 mins Sub: Llorente for Aurier
50 mins Yellow Card: Vinicius for foul on Winks.
38 mins GOAL APOEL 0-1 SPURS : Harry Kane
Alderweireld picked out Kane's run, ball into his path, took it on a couple of strides and slotted one-on-one.



The Occasion:
2017/18 Champions League, Group Stage – Matchday 2.

Who:
APOEL FC (Nicosia) vs. Tottenham Hotspur

Who the fuck are they!?:
Can’t help you I’m afraid, I am also unfamiliar with this ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ …

When:
Tuesday 26th September 2017
7.45pm Kick-off (BST).

Selected other Worldwide Kick-off times:
It’s a Tuesday, anybody who has a radically different timezone to the UK time should be either a) at work, or b) fast asleep….. So you don’t need them.

Where:
GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus
Capacity – 22,859

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

Why:
Because there is 3rd place and a Europa League spot to battle for.

How to watch it:
UK – BT Sport
Rest of World – I don’t care.
Other options may also be available……

Squads:
Tottenham’s CL squad is:
Hugo Lloris, Michel Vorm, Paulo Gazzaniga, Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen, Davinson Sanchez, Eric Dier, Juan Foyth, Kieran Trippier, Serge Aurier, Danny Rose, Ben Davies, Victor Wanyama, Mousa Dembele, Moussa Sissoko, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, George-Kevin Nkoudou, Heung-Min Son, Harry Kane, and Fernando Llorente

The supplementary ‘List B’ of youth players is TBC, though will include the likes of Harry Winks and Tashan Oakley-Boothe.

Manager – Mauricio Pochettino

Apoel:
Some Waiters, Some plate-smashers, Some Kebab sellers, Dodgy bar owners, Fishermen, Barbers, and Zeus himself.

Team News:
No Lamela, no Rose, no Wanyama. No Alli, no Vertonghen. No Dembele. No Eriksen. No hope…

Match Officials:
Referee – Pavel Kralovec (CZE)
Assisted by – Ivo Nadvornik (CZE) and Roman Slysko (SVK)
4th Official – Martin Wilczek (CZE)
And those two prats on the goal line – Petr Ardeleanu (CZE) and Karel Hrubes (CZE)

Weather Forecast:
Dry, Temperature of 26c.

Score Predictor:
Apoel 0 Spurs 344

 

[hughy]

I think this is going to be another nervy one considering injuries/illness/suspensions.

I know nothing about them, or whether they're an attacking team, but I hope they come out and play instead of putting 10 men behind the ball. I don't fancy trying to break them down with the likes of Son, GKN or Sissoko playing. I feel we'd be better on the break.

 

[Bulletspur]

You do make the match day thread interesting to start!

 

[Bulletspur]

I think this is going to be another nervy one considering injuries/illness/suspensions.

I know nothing about them, or whether they're an attacking team, but I hope they come out and play instead of putting 10 men behind the ball. I don't fancy trying to break them down with the likes of Son, GKN or Sissoko playing. I feel we'd be better on the break.

Have faith!

 

[Twizzle]

Apoel currently 11th in the Cypriot League

http://au.soccerway.com/national/cyprus/1-division/20172018/regular-season/r41683/

We maybe in with a show

 

[TheChosenOne]

From The Guardian, today -

Apoel, the Cypriot champions, have proved a tough nut to crack at their home ground in recent times. They have won nine of their last 11 European ties there, losing only one, to Anderlecht in the last 16 of the Europa League last season, and they have conceded just five goals during the sequence. The scalps they have taken include Olympiakos and Athletic Bilbao. The atmosphere promises to be hostile.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Unfortunately for me the Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid tie has been chosen for the free to air slot on TV3 here in Ireland, with BT/ESPN showing ours. ( I don't got that )

Highlights for me on TV3 after 10pm then.

 

[hughy]

Have faith!

Don't get me wrong, I'm massively excited and I'm not trying to be a Debbie downer, but with our depleted squad playing against a team we know very little about it feels like one of those very tricky, cagey Europa League games we used to have to endure.

Either way, as soon as the CL music plays and Harry bags a couple I'm sure I'll be as happy as anyone else.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

We should beat them, Inexcusable if not. It's just one of those types of matches. I'm in on the 442 suggestions with Llorente and Kane, would love for it to happen.

 

[dontcallme]

We've been concentrating so much on Real Madrid and Dortmund that I wonder if we are writing them off too easily.

Everyone is saying we need to win both these games. Their home record suggests this could be tougher than we had assumed.

 

[thebenjamin]

this is going to be just like all the Europa League away games against terrible sides on bad pitches with appalling officials.

 

[JimmyG2]

The Occasion:
2017/18 Champions League, Group Stage – Matchday 2.

Who:
APOEL FC (Nicosia) vs. Tottenham Hotspur

Who the fuck are they!?:
Can’t help you I’m afraid, I am also unfamiliar with this ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ …

When:
Tuesday 26th September 2017
7.45pm Kick-off (BST).

Selected other Worldwide Kick-off times:
It’s a Tuesday, anybody who has a radically different timezone to the UK time should be either a) at work, or b) fast asleep….. So you don’t need them.

Where:
GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus
Capacity – 22,859

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

Spoiler

Why:
Because there is 3rd place and a Europa League spot to battle for.

How to watch it:
UK – BT Sport
Rest of World – I don’t care.
Other options may also be available……

Squads:

Tottenham’s CL squad is:

Hugo Lloris, Michel Vorm, Paulo Gazzaniga, Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen, Davinson Sanchez, Eric Dier, Juan Foyth, Kieran Trippier, Serge Aurier, Danny Rose, Ben Davies, Victor Wanyama, Mousa Dembele, Moussa Sissoko, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, George-Kevin Nkoudou, Heung-Min Son, Harry Kane, and Fernando Llorente

The supplementary ‘List B’ of youth players is TBC, though will include the likes of Harry Winks and Tashan Oakley-Boothe.

Manager – Mauricio Pochettino


Apoel:

Some Waiters, Some plater-smashers, Some Kebab sellers, Dodgy bar owners, Fishermen, and Zeus himself.


Team News:
No Lamela, no Rose, no Wanyama. No Alli, no Vertonghen. No Dembele. No Eriksen. No hope…

Match Officials:
Referee – Pavel Kralovec (CZE)
Assisted by – Ivo Nadvornik (CZE) and Roman Slysko (SVK)
4th Official – Martin Wilczek (CZE)
And those two prats on the goal line – Petr Ardeleanu (CZE) and Karel Hrubes (CZE)

Weather Forecast:
Dry, Temperature of 26c.

Score Predictor:
Apoel 0 Spurs 344

Doing better than I expected mp2087
but there's at least 50 games to go.
My money is still on complete breakdown of mind body and soul
probably before Xmas.

 

[spursfan77]

From The Guardian, today -

Apoel, the Cypriot champions, have proved a tough nut to crack at their home ground in recent times. They have won nine of their last 11 European ties there, losing only one, to Anderlecht in the last 16 of the Europa League last season, and they have conceded just five goals during the sequence. The scalps they have taken include Olympiakos and Athletic Bilbao. The atmosphere promises to be hostile.

A few years ago they only lost 1 nil away to Barcelona and PSG in their group games too (although Ive no idea how many players remain) so I think it won't be easy. Real Madrid only beat them 3 nil so they won't be a piece of piss to play against.

We just need to be sensible with our passing and respect them and we should hopefully be ok.

 

[spursfan77]

this is going to be just like all the Europa League away games against terrible sides on bad pitches with appalling officials.

Its Europe so its a given.

I know its terrible, but we need to learn to fall over to get free kicks. All the opposing teams do it and we need to wise up quickly.

 

[dondo]

Looking at the TVs listings the match is shown on bt sport/espn channel, is that on freeview?
Remember one of our champions league matches was shown on freeview last season and can't remember what channel it was

 

[TheChosenOne]

Looking at the TVs listings the match is shown on bt sport/espn channel, is that on freeview?
Remember one of our champions league matches was shown on freeview last season and can't remember what channel it was

Where is the fingers crossed emoticon ? Hoping.

 

[DiscoD1882]

If you are reading this please take note. - THIS WONT BE A WALKOVER!

Please temper your expectation.

Many Thanks. Disco D

 

[JimmyG2]

If you are reading this please take note. - THIS WONT BE A WALKOVER!

Please temper your expectation.

Many Thanks. Disco D

True
But it's definitely only a two horse race.

 

[mark87]

Expect to be at work for the first half and home for the second half. I fully plan on watching the first half on my phone through the bt sport app though, and if anyone from work has a problem with that then they can SUCK MY MOTHER FUCKING DICK.

 

[Gambler]

From BBC Sport:

• Apoel have lost 10 of their past 12 Champions League games (W1 D1). They have also failed to score in 10 of their past 13 outings, remaining goalless in each of their most recent five games.

• Apoel have never kept a clean sheet at home in the Champions League group stages (nine games).