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Saturday August 18, 2007 Finished White Hart Lane

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Tottenham Hotspur

  • Malbranque 2’, 6’
  • Jenas 14’
  • Bent 79’

Derby County

  1. Spurs batter Derby

    Spurs batter Derby

    Tottenham beat Derby County 4-0 with two goals from Steed Malbranque and a goal each from Jermaine Jenas and Darren Bent. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Tottenham Hotspur
    • Derby County
    • 90+2 That is it! Spurs have thrashed Derby 4-0 and the Spurs boss will be a jolly happy man!
    • 86' Shot from Defoe flies high over the bar.
    • 79' Chimbonda makes way for Zakora.
    • 79' Pascal Chimbonda heads it back across goal and Bent heads it over the line.
    • 79' GOOOOAAAALLLL! 4-0 to Spurs and it's Darren Bent who nods home his first Premiership goal for his new team.
    • 72' Taarabt has entered the fray (along with Defoe) and is entertaining the crowd with great skill.
    • 71' GREAT strike from Teale from the edge of the area and an equally top class save from Robinson.
    • 68' Keane finds himself in acres of space and tries to curl into the top-right but Bywater saves and holds at the second attempt with Darren Bent following up.
    • 60' Moore finds himself in the ref's book for a foul on Bent.
    • 59' Good play from Derby as they pass the ball nicely around the Spurs defence but the cross is disappointing and Spurs clear they're ranks.
    • 55' A foul on Routledge gives spurs a free kick on the right but Jenas floats one straight to Bywater.
    • 48' Awful shot from Robbie Keane flies wide wide wide.
    • 46' The second half is underway and Spurs will be hoping for more of the same.
    • - It's half time and Spurs take a commanding 3-0 lead into the break.
    • 45+1 A back-heel from Bent finds Keane but he is dispossessed on the edge on the area.
    • 44' Keane is through on goal but the onrushing Bywater saves and it's another Spurs corner.
    • 43' A rasping drive from Keane hits the right-hand side netting.
    • 42' Bent thought he should have had a penalty but Foy waves play on.
    • 41' Their passing has been Spurs' highlight in this half with Keane looking to drop deepa nd play one-two's and Huddlestone spreading the play.
    • 38' Spurs close to another as Malbranque managed to square it into the 6-yard box but there was no one there to convert for spurs.
    • 36' Jenas is having a blinder! A curling shot from the edge of the area goes narrowly wide of Bywater's left-hand post.
    • 34' Good passing football from Spurs as Keane drops deep.
    • 30' Repalys show that it was a BAD decision from the linesman, Routledge was not offside.
    • 30' Disallowed goal for spurs from Routledge. Bent's shot fell into the little wingers path and he taps in but was adjudged offside.
    • 29 More good play from Jenas... a one-two with Keane, a little flick and he was nearly through but the Derby defence put it out for a corner.
    • 28' Three consecutive corners come to nothing for Spurs.
    • 26' Great pass from Jenas opens up the Derby defence and a Bent cross is put out for a corner. Spurs players appeal for a penalty... no pen!
    • 22' Derby free kick from the right is easily cleared by Spurs but the ball is knocked back in and an Earnshaw effort nearly loops over Robinson... oh, it was a foul anyway.
    • 20' Chimbonda's cross from the right just evades the onrushing Bent who can't leap quite high enough.
    • 17' Spurs look to be playing with so much more belief and although Derby are battling hard, Tottenham look in control.
    • 14' A great run from Jenas as his takes it from midfield and runs straight through the Derby defence to slide it past the onrushing Bywater.
    • 14' GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!! It's Jenas with a great solo effort to answer his critics!
    • 10' Derby are not going to roll over here. A danderous cross followed by a corner from the right have the Spurs defence panicking put it's a goal kick to Tottenham.
    • 6' Bent found Malbranque in space with a cross from the right and Steed curled another beauty into the righ hand corner of the net! What a start from Tottenham, Jol must be pinching himself!
    • 6' It's another GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!!!! Malbranque again. It's 2-0 Spurs.
    • 2' It was Jenas' free kick from about 30 yards. He found Steed with a simple pass and the Frenchman placed it beautifully into the left corner.
    • 2' What a START!!!!!!!! It's an early goal from a Spurs free kick!!! Steed Malbranque scores from 18 yards. 1-0 Tottenham and Jol can breathe a sigh of relief already!
    • 1' The referee Chris Foy gets the game underway.
    • - For Derby Robert Earnshaw returns to the starting line up.
    • - Spurs bring in Routledge and Huddlestone to add some much needed life to their midfield. While Lee Young-Pyo returns at left-back.
    • - Follow all the action right here from 15:00 BST.
    • - A very warm welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE commentary of Spurs V Derby. Who would have thought that so early in the season a game could mean quite so much! But this one really does! Both managers have the unenviable total of 0 points from two games and for Martin Jol this one is apparently a MUST win if he wants to keep his job.

  • Team Stats

    Tottenham Hotspur Stats Derby County
    55% Possession 45%
    25 Shots 6
    8 Shots on target 2
    0 Saves 0
    9 Corners 3
    13 Fouls 8
    1 Offsides 1
    0 Yellow cards 4
    0 Red cards 0
    31 Tackles 25
    328 Accurate passes 274
    52 Bad passes 41

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Tottenham Hotspur
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Paul Robinson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 0
      33 Ricardo Rocha 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 27 1 0
      3 Young-pyo Lee 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 43 16 2
      2 Pascal Chimbonda 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 31 1 3
      30 Anthony Gardner 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 35 6 3
      8 Jermaine Jenas 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 31 2 5
      22 Tom Huddlestone 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 39 8 4
      21 Wayne Routledge 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 21 3 4
      15 Steed Malbranque 2 3 2 0 2 0 0 28 5 6
      10 Robbie Keane 0 8 3 0 1 0 0 14 2 1
      23 Darren Bent 1 4 1 2 1 0 1 23 1 0
      12 Radek Cerny 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      7 Paul Stalteri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Didier Zokora 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 2
      19 Adel Taarabt 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 10 4 1
      18 Jermain Defoe 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0
    • Derby County
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      43 Stephen Bywater 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 2 0
      23 Darren Moore 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 17 0 2
      17 Andrew Todd 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 13 1 2
      4 James McEveley 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 38 14 4
      24 Tyrone Mears 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 3
      5 Dean Leacock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 1
      8 Matt Oakley 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 38 3 2
      25 Stephen Pearson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 11 5
      10 Robert Earnshaw 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 17 8 1
      9 Steve Howard 0 2 1 3 3 0 0 13 1 1
      11 Craig Fagan 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 11 1 1
      16 Gary Teale 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 16 0 0
      7 David Jones 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Lewis Price 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 Benny Feilhaber 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      18 Andy Griffin 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 26 0 3

  • Summary

    • 30' Repalys show that it was a BAD decision from the linesman, Routledge was not offside.
    • 6' It's another GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!!!! Malbranque again. It's 2-0 Spurs.
    • 2' What a START!!!!!!!! It's an early goal from a Spurs free kick!!! Steed Malbranque scores from 18 yards. 1-0 Tottenham and Jol can breathe a sigh of relief already!
    • - A very warm welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE commentary of Spurs V Derby. Who would have thought that so early in the season a game could mean quite so much! But this one really does! Both managers have the unenviable total of 0 points from two games and for Martin Jol this one is apparently a MUST win if he wants to keep his job.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Tottenham Hotspur

    Manager: Martin Jol

    On the Field

    • Robinson
    • Chimbonda
    • Rocha
    • Gardner
    • Stalteri
    • Young-Pyo
    • Routledge
    • Huddlestone
    • Jenas
    • Malbranque
    • Keane
    • Bent

    Subs

    Injured

    • King
    • Berbatov
    • Kaboul
    • Assou-Ekotto
    • Lennon
    • Dawson
    • Bale

    Suspended

    None

  • Derby County

    Manager: Billy Davies

    On the Field

    • Bywater
    • Mears
    • Moore
    • Leacock
    • McEveley
    • Fagan
    • Todd
    • Oakley
    • Pearson
    • Earnshaw
    • Howard

    Subs

    Injured

    • Barnes

    Suspended

    None