clubgowi schedule and Europa League stats .................
Apr 11, 2019
Thursday April 11th
Schedule for the weekend ahead..............
Friday 12/04: email @ 10.00 with main focus on Ligue 2 and the two Saturday J-League fixtures.
Saturday 13/04:
Email #1 @ 10.00 with English and Spanish football.
Email #2 @ 12.00 will cover MLS and the Sunday games from Japan.
Sunday 14/04:
Email #1 @ 10.00 with the day's football.
Email #2 @ 11.30 will be golf only and a look at the final round from Augusta.
UEFA Europa League:
Since the competition was rebranded as the Europa League, the 36 quarter final first legs have played out accordingly .......
Home 23/ Draw 7/ Away 6
Over/Under 2.5 goals ..........24/12
Over/Under 3.5 goals...........12/24
Both to score........... yes 27/ no 9
Home team to score 2+ goals ............yes 24/ no 12.
Away team to score 2+ goals.............yes 8/ no 28
Despite the high scoring nature of the games, 19 did not see a breakthrough goal until at least the 30th minute, although the last two seasons have seen 4 of the 8 games produce a first goal inside 10 minutes.
Today's newsletter included a look at three Europa League games , with a selection in two.
Of course, subscribers have to pay for those, about 1 euro per email (!!), but I offered all website followers the chance to get a copy of the free newletter on Tuesday. It contained a lot of interesting stuff, including a preview of the Tottenham- Man City game which is reproduced below.
Good Luck.
UEFA Champions League: Tottenham Hotspur- Manchester City
This will be the first Champions League match played at Tottenham's brand new stadium, which has been greeted with universal approval, it is only the second competitive game to be played here, first was last midweek's London derby with Crystal Palace, ahead of which I wrote ..............
Palace are the only one of the three away teams who have a weekend league fixture, playing at Newcastle United on Saturday, that is a long journey and very quick turnaround and it is fairly unusual to play Wednesday-Saturday in the Premier League and the Eagles have lost 7/8 on the last four occasions that they have. This is a derby and a big high profile game, but they will surely see the trip up North as more win-able and will not want to give everything tonight chasing a lost cause (once it is lost) and leave nothing for the weekend. This is so high profile because it marks the opening of Spurs brand new stadium, it has been a long time coming but seems well worth the wait and this is a big day for club and supporters alike.
Tottenham were devastaed by losing late at Anfield on Sunday after dominating the second half, they are now clinging onto 4th place and will lose it if Chelsea win, as seems likely and they fail to also take all three points. Palace are only 13th, but have an 8 point lead over Cardiff City, who will almost certainly lose tonight and, with just one relegation spot up for grabs and 7 teams below them, look safe and only one team has been relegated with 36 points since 2013. That is a long winded way of saying that this means far more to Spurs than Palace ! These h2h games are traditionally tight, but Palace have not scored in five PL visits, losing four, the last three all by the same 1-0 scoreline. Spurs have actually won seven successive top-flight games against Crystal Palace (home and away), six of them by a 1-0 scoreline. However, this is the first at the new White Hart Lane, it is almost on the same patch of land as the old stadium, where Spurs won their last 14 starts and it just feels like "one of those nights" and something special in the history of the club. It will also be the only chance for Tottenham to win in these new surroundings and refind some real confidence ahead of their Champions League home quarter final with Manchester City next Tuesday. Home win, Spurs by 2+ goals on this occasion.
Spurs won 2-0, it was a commanding performance and stats, which I will not bore you with on this occasion, were more inline with a 4 or 5 goal victory, the victors have had six days subsequently to bask in that ,rest up and prepare for this. City also played last Wednesday, but were back in action Saturday evening for a FA Cup semi final with Brighton where my notes spoke about their HEAVY schedule...............
...........it will be City's 22nd start of 2019 and the cup semi final will probably be the least important match the Sky Blues will play in the remaining weeks, they are going toe to toe with Liverpool for the title and above all else, are desperate to win a Champions League and travel to play Spurs in that QF first leg on Tuesday and that will overshadow the Brighton fixture....................and the truth is City would take a 1-0 win now and have eased off twice in the last week once they had a two goal lead.
City won 1-0 scored very early and this was the third game in a row we had seen the action/damage done early and then either a easing off, or drop in intensity and you could make a good case for the Sky Blues running out of energy, or just playing with the bigger picture in mind, regardless of which, I see value in the host this evening. In terms of starting eleven, if certainly not squad, on a going day Spurs are the equal of City/Liverpool, or at least close enough, it is just that they lack the depth and over 38 games that tends to leave them 10-15 points short. With money in the bank and that new stadium completed, they have a decision now to make about whether they want to make the next step up and try to compete at the highest level, which will mean spending big in the transfer market and paying top wages, both of which they have been loath to do, but that is for another day. In terms of h2h, if the two teams had played the last 10 Premier League seasons as CL fixtures, on aggregate, the 20 games would have resulted in 5 wins for each team and that alone should give Spurs more confidence than bookmaker odds. I said that City would take 1-0 on Raturday and I suspect they would accept 1-1 for tonight right now and save the likely expended energy. The visitors will also have that 3-0 first leg loss at Anfield to Liverpool at this stage of the competition 12 months ago at the back of their minds, three goals in 19 first half minutes ended that tie and those events might dictate how they approach this, especially early, with the new WHL crowd pumped and looking for something to further feed off.
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