On Saturday,
Tottenham drew at home 2 - 2 against Stoke City, a team we didn't get a single point off last season, and if you didn't know any better, judging by the social media reaction, you would have thought the world was about to end.
Not exact matches
The Northumberland - based official will be taking charge of his fifth Everton match of the season, having overseen a win
home win over Stoke City, away
draws with Manchester United and Manchester City and an away defeat
at Tottenham Hotspur.
And the other 2 co-leaders dropped points against teams we've beaten:
Tottenham drew at Burnley: we won there (with the ugliest goal ever... but we won) City
drew at home to Southampton: we won our
home game against Southampton
It is hard to root against them as they've done well, but to date in the league they've only played
Tottenham and Arsenal from the top 6 clubs and they
drew to the Spurs
at home and lost 2 - 5
at home to the Arsenal.
Tottenham won 17 of 19 Premier League matches
at White Hart Lane last season —
drawing the other two — but they must now get used to playing their
home games
at Wembley Stadium.
Tottenham Hotspur missed the chance to go top of the Premier League table for the second time in a week as they
drew 2 - 2
at home to 10 - man Arsenal in the North London derby.
We
drew at United, contenders sure, lost to Chelsea, eventual champions, but we also lost to Stoke, Southampton, Swansea
home and away and
Tottenham drawing to Everton and Liverpool.
The Swans come into the match on the back of four losses from their last five in all competitions, but
at the same time, they have only conceded one Premier League goal away from
home this term, including 0 - 0
draws at Southampton and
Tottenham.
You can hope and fight all you want though you should know it is written, Stoke away is always a loss, Man utd
at home is always a
draw,
Tottenham anywhere is a
draw, only Everton and Leicester are the games we can get 3 points out of.
all we have to do is win 29 games, lose 6 games,
draw 3 games... 90 points.We can still and probably will lose against Chelsea, man utd, mancity all away and
draw them
at home and lose against Liverpool once more and we will still win the title... as long as we beat all other small teams... assuming
Tottenham are a small team.
INSHAA ALLAH this season we will the win the league of we just keep focus, treat one game
at a time, don't be afraid of man city, man utd,
tottenham, Liverpool, Everton when we we play them away just be patient and respect them
at their
home grounds sit deep and work hard and we wil get the important results in our favour in these games and also don't underestimate small sides because these games can give you points and if we you lose or
draw against these sides then it can cause huge dent in our title ambitions... COYG!!!
After running out to a quick 2 - 0 lead
at home, Juve was surprisingly outplayed by
Tottenham Hotspur over the final hour of the first leg, and eventually
drew 2 - 2.
2013/14, the year that started our winning run, we did actually get all
home draws again, but they were hardly against easy teams and we had to beat
Tottenham, Coventry, Liverpool and Everton
at home, before perhaps easier games against Wigan and Hull in the Wembley games.
He has shown that he can set up his team to match the Big Teams
at home, as proven by beating Man City and
drawing with
Tottenham in their last two games
at Turf Moor.
Manchester City's game is the only
draw this season, in addition to the opening day victory over Crystal Palace
at home; but, with other Premier League heavyweights in Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United,
Tottenham and Everton to visit, Arsenal need to raise their game and get those 3 points, more often than not.
Liverpool and
Tottenham both slipped up
at home and
drew against inferior teams, cashing big lines for
draw bettors.
This season's Champions League has already thrown up some interesting results, with
Tottenham managing to
draw away
at defending champions Real Madrid before comprehensively beating them 3 - 1
at their temporary
home of Wembley, while their White Hart Lane ground is... Read more
Excellent results such as a 0 - 0
draw at the Etihad and a 1 - 0
home win against
Tottenham have been contrasted by 4 - 1 defeats to Aston Villa.
Everton, under Allardyce, have only won four of their last 17 games and have succumbed to heavy losses against Arsenal and
Tottenham, whilst also losing to the likes of Bournemouth, Watford and Burnley, as well as
drawing 1 - 1
at home to rock bottom West Bromwich Albion.
It is worth noting, however, that the Swans have picked up two good road
draws at Southampton and
Tottenham, though maybe picking up points
at Wembley isn't something worth writing
home about?
Concerns were raised with successive
draws at home to
Tottenham and then away
at Everton, but they bounced back emphatically when Chelsea arrived
at Highbury only to be sent back to South West London on the wrong end of an assertive 4 - 1 loss.
After a 0 - 0
draw at home to Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool, Tom Scholes takes a look
at some of the
Tottenham players who played the best, and some who weren't quite as good.
Burnley
at home won 27 matches and
Tottenham Hotspur won 8 games, and other 14 matches were
drawn.
Tottenham drew a dire game away
at Burnley and lost last week
at home to Aston Villa, so as per usual for
Tottenham, the play the out of form team in the league who are in need for a win.
The defence of Burnley has been rock solid so far this season and they have three clean sheets in their last three and they held out for a 1 - 1
draw at Tottenham earlier in the season, so could be value to get something out of this back on
home soil.
• Zinédine Zidane's charges collected seven points
at home in this season's competition, beating APOEL 3 - 0 and Borussia Dortmund 3 - 2 either side of a 1 - 1
draw against
Tottenham.
The Argentine has steered his
Tottenham side into contention for the Premier League title this term, although Spurs» 1 - 1
draw at home to West Brom on Monday night has left the club sitting seven points behind league leaders Leicester City.
There were some memories for Stags fan to cherish, especially a 3 - 3
draw at home to
Tottenham on 25 March 1978, featuring a Syrett hat - trick, and a last minute equaliser from a free - kick by Glenn Hoddle.
That followed a turgid span on five games in which
Tottenham laboured to
draws against West Brom, Leverkusen and Bournemouth away and Leicester City
at home, as well as a loss away to Liverpool in the EFL Cup.
In their other games against top four opposition this season, they lost
at home against
Tottenham and played out a 1 - 1
home draw with Liverpool.
There have been some encouraging performances as well, such as during the 2 - 2
draw with West Ham United
at home and the narrow 1 - 0 defeat to
Tottenham Hotspur
at the Wembley Stadium.
With a
home draw to London rivals
Tottenham the high point of their season last time around, a lack of European football means that Chelsea will be expected to throw everything
at a charge for the title.
Even though the Gunners have been
drawn at home in every round,
Tottenham, Liverpool and Everton have represented some tough challenges.
Both
Tottenham and Arsenal — the teams either side of Chelsea in the table — both
drew 1 - 1
at this ground, with the Saints securing seven
draws at home this term.
More worryingly perhaps, for a team who had high hopes, they have had four
draws at home against Everton, Southampton, Middlesbrough and
Tottenham.
In the big encounters this season, up against those expected to finish in the top - six, United have been very impressive as victories over Liverpool and
Tottenham Hotspur, both
at Old Trafford, as well as a 0 - 0
draw away to locals Man City, help give them the edge considering the Gunners failed to beat Liverpool
at Anfield and were beaten by both
Tottenham Hotspur
at home and Chelsea away.
They were frustrated
at Craven Cottage over the weekend when
drawing 0 - 0 in the FA Cup, but back
at home is where
Tottenham play their most entertaining football,
at a venue they clearly prefer playing
at.
There will also be the Champions League last 16, second - leg trip to
Tottenham on March 7
at Wembley to fight after
drawing the
home leg 2 - 2.
Leicester haven't been seeing off the big sides
at home, they scrapped a few
draws with
Tottenham and United, but they lost to Arsenal.
Away from
home Tottenham are unbeaten in three games winning two of them before only managing a 1 - 1
draw in their last away game which was
at Southampton.
Aston Villa's 2 - 2
draw at home to QPR on Wednesday, in which they fought back from two - goals down, extended their unbeaten run in the league to three matches, while they've not been beaten on their travels since a 2 - 0 loss to
Tottenham on 21 November, 2011 − winning three of five away league games since, including high - scoring victories
at Chelsea (1 - 3) and locals Wolves (2 - 3).
However, after beating West Ham 4 - 2, they've completely «Pulised» their way to three 1 - 1
draws in a row, the latest of which being a credible point
at home to
Tottenham.
A controversial 2 - 1 win over
Tottenham Hotspur
at home extended Chelsea's unbeaten run in the Premier League to ten — 8 wins and 2
draws — with Carlo Ancelotti's side the hottest property in English football right now, having registered 25 points from a possible 27.
-- Last Monday's goalless
draw at home to
Tottenham meant Liverpool remained in seventh in the league, four points behind Chelsea in fourth and those sought - after Champions League spots.
The bad news: consecutive
draws against
Tottenham, Manchester United and Paris Saint - Germain have seen us lose ground
at home and in Europe.
And, despite two disappointing results against
Tottenham,
drawing at home and losing on the road, Madrid progressed fairly comfortably out of their group.