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Saturday April 26, 2008 Finished White Hart Lane

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Tottenham Hotspur

  • Malbranque 51’

Bolton Wanderers

  • Giannakopoulos 46’
  1. Desperate Bolton deny Spurs

    Desperate Bolton deny Spurs

    Bolton clung on for a desperate 1-1 draw at Tottenham, withstanding a monumental second-half onslaught to keep alive their hopes of Premier League survival. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Tottenham Hotspur
    • Bolton Wanderers
    • 90+4 And that's that. Bolton have somehow held on for a hugely important point. They didn't deserve it, but Spurs could not convert their possesion into goals.
    • 90+3 Berba with a FREE HEADER...over the bar!
    • 90+2 Zokora booked for diving.
    • 90' Bent's header!!! And Guthrie clears off the line. What an escape for Bolton.
    • 87' Time running out now for Spurs. Bolton are hanging on here, this would be a vital point in their fight against relegation.
    • 84' End to end stuff now. Diouf involved in the Spurs box, but it comes to nothing. Lennon breaks, but Al-Habsi cleans up the danger.
    • 81' Woodgate meets Keane's corner and heads JUST WIDE!! Spurs really deserve to be ahead here.
    • 76' Jamie O'Hara comes on to replace Spurs' goalscorer Malbranque.
    • 69' Bolton with some pressure. McCann's shot is blocked and Diouf blasts one wide.
    • 65' Lennon cuts in again and lays on Berba, whose shot is pushed behind for a corner. Zokora heads over.
    • 60' Keane crosses for MALBRANQUE...JUST WIDE!! He should have got his second there. Spurs are all over Bolton like the kind of rash you wouldn't want to have.
    • 59' Lennon cuts inside and curls a shot with his wrong-un' - it's weak.
    • 56' Keane pushed wide in the Bolton box, and Al-Habsi makes a vital save to deny him. Meanwhile, Birmingham are 2-0 up against Liverpool.
    • 54' The game has suddenly come alive! Both sides are flying into tackles and it's like the first half never happened. Much much better.
    • 51' Another half-time change to bring you up to speed with. Tom Huddlestone is on for Hutton.
    • 51' ALL SQUARE!!! Jenas into Keane, who turned to shoot...Steed Malbranque was in the right place, at the right time. 1-1!
    • 46' WHAT A START FOR BOLTON! Giannakopoulos had only just entered the action, along with El Hadji Diouf - with Campo and Grzegorz Raziak making way.
    • 46' WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT!!!! Guthrie crosses from the right, Cerny scrambles to get there, and Stelios Giannakopoulos slides the ball home under him.
    • 46' Here we go then. It can only get better.
    • 45+2 Half-time. Thank goodness for that.
    • 45+2 Oooooohhhhh!!! Gilberto's free-kick strikes one of Keane or Gretar Steinsson and hits the post.
    • 45+1' Great run from Hutton. McCann is forced to pull him down on the corner of the box.
    • 43' Free-kick to Spurs, 25 or so yards out. Jenas shoots...nowhere near. That just about sums up this first half.
    • 41' Gilberto sends over a cross and Gary Cahill concedes a corner. Jenas takes, cleared for another one. High drama in the context of this match. Al-Habsi leaps to claim the second one.
    • 39' Mix-up between Cerny and Jonathon Woodgate leads to a throw, then a corner to Bolton. FINALLY! Spurs clear, Keane breaks, finds Lennon and his shot is blocked by Campo.
    • 34' Campo booked for a crude lunge at Jenas. Good hair from Campo today by the way. Very rock n'roll.
    • 34' Nice long-range ping from Gilberto. Al-Habsi saves comfortably.
    • 33' Hang on a minute! Bolton have the game's first corner. No, it's a throw. Gavin McCann has a shot blocked and Spurs break. Lennon fails to find a team-mate.
    • 30' I haven't seen a piechart for possession yet, but if there was one the Bolton piece of the pizza would barely feed a family of ants for an afternoon...Berba with a free-kick 25 yards out, into the wall.
    • 27' MAJOR NEWS FROM WHITE HART LANE..Keane just had a shot for Spurs. It was harmless, but the closest we've come so far.
    • 25' Ivan Campo "does a job" on Hutton. Spurs attack from the free-kick, but Berba's touch lets him down.
    • 24' Bolton have barely touched the ball in Spurs' half so far, let alone built an attack.
    • 20' Bolton are forced to make an early change. Danny Guthrie enters the fray to replace Joey O'Brien.
    • 19' Jenas pings a Hollywood pass over to Lennon, who collects but can't get a ball into the box.
    • 17' Nasty fall for Alan Hutton, who bounded over the hoardings trying to keep the ball in play. He's ok now.
    • 16' Aaron Lennon with some neat wingmanship. The diminutive England midfielder whips in a decent cross, but Ali Al-Habsi gathers easily.
    • 13' Jermaine Jenas with a nice little dink over for Berba, but it's a touch too long.
    • 12' Still no shots on target to report. Or corners for that matter. All of which allows me to express again just how perfect the conditions are for flowing, ATTACKING football.
    • 9' Bolton are sitting very deep. They seem to have at least 15 men behind the ball, which of course they don't. Spurs are being allowed to play until the final third - when they hit a black wall.
    • 6' Glorious conditions. Dimitar Berbatov with a cheeky flick, which doesn't quite work. It looked good though.
    • 3' Spurs with the early pressure. Robbie Keane pulls the trigger from 18 yards, but it's mis-timed.
    • 1' And we're under way! Spurs in all white, with Bolton in all black. Furious pace to the only exchanges.
    • - BOLTON TEAM NEWS: Tamir Cohen was injured in last week's defeat of Middlesbrough and Joey O'Brien starts in his place. Otherwise, it's the same side.
    • - TOTTENHAM TEAM NEWS: Paul Robinson is dropped to the bench, with Radek Cerny starting in goal. Jamie O'Hara is at left-back and Didier Zokora starts in midfield.
    • - For Bolton this is a HUGE game. Gary Megson's side lie just a point outside the relegation zone and desperately need something here today.
    • - The sun is shining in north London, with Spurs entering the fixture on the back of three 1-1 draws.
    • - Good afternoon and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE!! coverage of Tottenham against Bolton at White Hart Lane.

  • Team Stats

    Tottenham Hotspur Stats Bolton Wanderers
    70% Possession 29%
    28 Shots 8
    8 Shots on target 1
    0 Saves 4
    12 Corners 3
    9 Fouls 6
    2 Offsides 1
    1 Yellow cards 3
    0 Red cards 0
    11 Tackles 14
    456 Accurate passes 143
    56 Bad passes 35

  • 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
      12 Radek Cerny 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0
      20 Michael Dawson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 3 1
      28 Alan Hutton 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 30 0 1
      39 Jonathan Woodgate 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 36 11 1
      8 Jermaine Jenas 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 87 9 0
      4 Didier Zokora 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 66 7 2
      11 Gilberto da Silva Melo 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 41 7 2
      25 Aaron Lennon 0 4 1 0 4 0 0 35 0 0
      15 Steed Malbranque 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 36 6 2
      10 Robbie Keane 0 6 2 1 1 1 0 27 5 0
      9 Dimitar Berbatov 0 4 1 1 0 1 0 18 1 1
      22 Tom Huddlestone 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 31 3 1
      6 Teemu Tainio 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Paul Robinson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Jamie O'Hara 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 0
      23 Darren Bent 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Bolton Wanderers
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      26 Ali Al-Habsi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0
      33 Gary Cahill 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0
      24 Joey O'Brien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
      3 Jlloyd Samuel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 8 1
      15 Grétar Steinsson 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 12 0 1
      32 Matthew Taylor 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 15 11 2
      31 Andy O'Brien 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 6 1 0
      19 Gavin McCann 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 16 2 8
      8 Ivan Campo 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 0
      4 Kevin Nolan 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 14 2 1
      47 Grzegorz Rasiak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 6 0
      17 Danny Guthrie 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 12 1 0
      12 Ian Walker 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      7 Stelios Giannakopoulos 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 17 1 0
      41 Jaroslaw Fojut 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      21 El Hadji Diouf 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 12 2 0

  • Summary

    • 90' Bent's header!!! And Guthrie clears off the line. What an escape for Bolton.
    • 51' ALL SQUARE!!! Jenas into Keane, who turned to shoot...Steed Malbranque was in the right place, at the right time. 1-1!
    • 46' WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT!!!! Guthrie crosses from the right, Cerny scrambles to get there, and Stelios Giannakopoulos slides the ball home under him.
    • 45+2 Oooooohhhhh!!! Gilberto's free-kick strikes one of Keane or Gretar Steinsson and hits the post.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Tottenham Hotspur

    Manager: Juande Ramos

    Captain: Robbie Keane

    On the Field

    • Cerny
    • Hutton Substitution Out (46′)
    • Woodgate
    • Dawson Substitution Out (53′)
    • Gilberto
    • Lennon
    • Jenas
    • Zokora Yellow Card
    • Malbranque Goal Substitution Out (76′)
    • Berbatov
    • Keane

    Subs

    • Tainio
    • Robinson
    • Bent Substitution In53′
    • Huddlestone Substitution In46′
    • O'Hara Substitution In76′

    Injured

    • King
    • Rocha
    • Bale

    Suspended

    None

  • Bolton Wanderers

    Manager: Gary Megson

    Captain: Kevin Nolan

    On the Field

    • Al Habsi
    • Steinsson
    • O'Brien
    • Cahill
    • Samuel
    • Campo Yellow Card Substitution Out (46′)
    • Nolan
    • O'Brien Substitution Out (20′)
    • McCann
    • Taylor
    • Rasiak Substitution Out (46′)

    Subs

    • Diouf Substitution In46′
    • Giannakopoulos Substitution In46′ Goal
    • Fojut
    • Guthrie Substitution In20′
    • Woolfe

    Injured

    • Gardner
    • Jaaskelainen
    • Hunt
    • Cohen

    Suspended

    • Davies