Tottenham/ Liverpool, 5.30pm, Setanta Sports, Free £10 bet
Spurs may be enjoying a good week and have won this fixture six times to Liverpool’s five but there’s no escaping that this encounter pits the best team in the country against the worst in the league. Here’s why the folks at chickendinner believe Harry Redknapp will taste defeat for the first time as Tottenham boss, and we will see Robbie Keane’s daft six-shooter celebration:
1. Liverpool are unbeaten in nine encounters with Tottenham, winning four of the last five.
2. Rafael Benitez’s side have won four straight league games and are unbeaten in all competitions this season. Their last away game saw them beat Chelsea, who had previously gone 86 home league games without defeat.
3. Since losing away to Reading last December, Liverpool have gone unbeaten and won every away game bar one against bottom-half clubs.
4. Spurs have failed to score in their last three home games against Liverpool. They have now gone four hours and forty-nine minutes since without scoring a home goal against the Reds.
5. And worryingly for Tottenham, their last three goals against the Reds were all scored by Robbie Keane.
Robbie Keane’s amazing record against former clubs
» Former Tottenham striker Robbie Keane has faced former clubs Coventry, Wolves and Leeds on seven different occasions and has scored in every game, managing nine in total.
» When Keane clashed with Wolves for the first time while playing for Tottenham he managed a hat-trick in a 5-2 win.
» In four of the seven games he scored the goal that broke the deadlock while six of his nine have come in the first-half.
» In terms of results, Keane has won six and drawn one of his seven games against former clubs.
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6 responses so far
1 Balls // Oct 31, 2008 at 5:51 pm
That’s a good article. Well worth taking the time to write it. Very clever. This site is very clever. I like being drawn to this site. I like reading it’s stuff. Clever funny journalism. On the web too, which lets face it is where it counts these days. Great stuff on here. They know their footy. And they can sniff out a sarcastic punter from a mile off… sniff.
2 name // Oct 31, 2008 at 7:51 pm
“Their last away game saw them beat Chelsea, who had previously gone 86 home league games without defeat.”
This should have been enough to disprove your “Liverpool will win based on past history” argument.
3 Johnny boy // Nov 2, 2008 at 4:34 am
Wrong again eh?? Unlucky… Does anybody actually remember when this site has made an accurate prediction?
Not saying I can do better but if you cant get it right at least half the time just keep quiet. Putting a bunch of random/biased facts together doesnt make a good article.
4 AnthonyOA // Nov 2, 2008 at 8:54 pm
“worryingly for tottenham”? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
worryingly for chicken dinner, you’ve been wrong on everything since day dot.
5 Upminster Iron // Nov 2, 2008 at 11:17 pm
They do get some wrong but if you go on the actual main chickendinner site they got everything else right this weekend - Man City to lose, Under 2.5 goals in the Bolton match, Everton to win, England to lose the cricket, Massa to win the Grand Prix and Hamilton the championship. I bet they’re pretty gutted that the one they put up ended up being the only one they got wrong!
6 607 // Nov 3, 2008 at 11:55 am
Congrats to most of the above for their superior forecasting wisdom. Everyone else should take note - if you want to make absolutely sure your predictions are right, don’t forget to first wait until the game is over.