{"id":419257,"date":"2011-05-07T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/07\/team-news-defoe-starts-and-danny-rose-plays-at-left-back-for-tottenham-in-must-win-game-against-blackpool\/"},"modified":"2011-05-07T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T15:57:00","slug":"team-news-defoe-starts-and-danny-rose-plays-at-left-back-for-tottenham-in-must-win-game-against-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/07\/team-news-defoe-starts-and-danny-rose-plays-at-left-back-for-tottenham-in-must-win-game-against-blackpool\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM NEWS: Defoe starts and Danny Rose plays at left back for Tottenham in must-win game against Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h4>7 May 2011 16:57:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"78.0269922879\">\n<div readability=\"14.3333333333\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Danny Rose, Tottenham Hotspur (Getty Images) \" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/94700\/94798_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Danny Rose, Tottenham Hotspur (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"56.9742078113\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> have made two changes to the side who controversially lost 2-1 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Benoit Assou-Ekotto has a hamstring injury, so manager Harry Redknapp has resisted the temptation to put Gareth Bale at left-back and has instead given a start to Danny Rose, who scored a sensational volley against Arsenal on his debut last season.<\/p>\n<p>The winger, who has spent the season on loan at Bristol City, comes in for his second ever Spurs start, whilst Jermain Defoe replaced Aaron Lennon and will start alongside Roman Pavluychenko in a revamped 4-4-2 formation.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs will have been buoyed by Manchester City&#8217;s 2-1 defeat at Everton and they can close the gap on fourth place to four points.<\/p>\n<p>Blackpool have matched Tottenham&#8217;s set-up, as they bring in Belarussian striker Sergey Kornilenko to partner DJ Campbell up front, in place of Matt Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>One point will see Ian Holloway&#8217;s team leapfrog Wigan into 17th place, as they attempt to seal the double over the North London side.<br \/><strong\/><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham 4-4-2: Gomes; Kaboul, Dawson, Gallas, Rose; Van der Vaart, Modric, Sandro, Bale; Defoe, Pavlyuchenko. <strong>Subs:<\/strong> Cudicini, Bassong, Corluka, Jenas, Kranjcar, Lennon, Crouch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackpool 4-4-2:<\/strong> Gilks; Crainey, Eardley, Evatt, Baptiste; Southern, Adam, Vaughn, Taylor-Fletcher, Campbell, Kornilenko. <strong>Subs:<\/strong> Kingson, Cathcart, Phillips, Puncheon, Reid, Ormerod, Beattie<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/07\/2475772\/team-news-defoe-starts-and-danny-rose-plays-at-left-back-for\" title=\"TEAM NEWS: Defoe starts and Danny Rose plays at left back for Tottenham in must-win game against Blackpool\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TEAM NEWS: Defoe starts and Danny Rose plays at left back for Tottenham in must-win game against Blackpool<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 7 May 2011 16:57:00 Danny Rose, Tottenham Hotspur (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham Hotspur have made two changes to the side who controversially lost 2-1 at Chelsea last week. Benoit Assou-Ekotto has a hamstring injury, so manager Harry Redknapp has resisted the temptation to put Gareth Bale at left-back and has instead given a start to Danny Rose, who scored a sensational volley against Arsenal on his debut last season. The winger, who has spent the season on loan at Bristol City, comes in for his second ever Spurs start, whilst Jermain Defoe replaced Aaron Lennon and will start alongside Roman Pavluychenko in a revamped 4-4-2 formation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TEAM NEWS: Defoe starts and Danny Rose plays at left back for Tottenham in must-win game against Blackpool - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/07\/team-news-defoe-starts-and-danny-rose-plays-at-left-back-for-tottenham-in-must-win-game-against-blackpool\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"TEAM NEWS: Defoe starts and Danny Rose plays at left back for Tottenham in must-win game against Blackpool - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"7 May 2011 16:57:00 Danny Rose, Tottenham Hotspur (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham Hotspur have made two changes to the side who controversially lost 2-1 at Chelsea last week. 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