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Episode 53 - Spurs v Ipswich Town Preview
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Tom & Rob are on hand to preview Ipswich Town's trip to North London this Sunday as they take on Ange Postecoglu's side. Will the Premier League proven team do the job at home or can McKenna's men pull off the shock in the capital?
The Daily Ipswich Podcast, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network, is your new home of all your ITFC. Join us every weekday for the latest news, build-up and reaction in the club's first season back in the Premier League.
Host: Tom Crack
Guest: Rob Binns
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Podcast Introduction
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Daily Ipswich here on the Global Sports Podcast Network. Happy with you all here this Thursday. We're going to be looking at Town's away game this weekend against Spurs. Another tough fixture in the Premier League as they are all proving to be this season. Bit of a change of format this week as well as you can tell with our crossover which usually occurs on a Thursday is going to be taking place somewhere over our colleagues over at the Daily Spurs.
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're going to look at it from a town perspective moment mostly today. To help me do that,
Ipswich's Match Preview
00:00:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm once again joined by Rob Binns. How are you doing Rob?
00:00:41
Rob Binns
I'm all good, mate. I'm as optimistic as I can be for a challenging game at the weekend. I'll keep going to say on Saturday, because we never play another day, but we actually are Sunday this week, even though it's still not on TV.
00:00:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:00:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, very much the yeah overabundance of games on Sundays after a European week for a lot of clubs as well, which it seems to be the case this
Analyzing Spurs' Performance
00:00:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
season. and Yeah, we're going to get stuck into today's pod. We'll start with our opponents, Rob. Thoughts on Spurs as a whole this season? Seventh position? Obviously, maybe they want to be a bit higher, but I can't imagine their goals are and anything more than top four this season. But, you know, what's your thoughts on so far this season? Ten games through.
00:01:18
Rob Binns
Very, very inconsistent. Some weeks they look absolutely brilliant.
00:01:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:01:22
Rob Binns
I mean, the last two results are the prime example of that. But then some games they look absolutely dreadful, like the second half at Brighton, where they just didn't turn up at all, considered that just lost their heads when they let the first one in and got bad for the remaining 44 minutes of the half.
00:01:38
Rob Binns
And they're very much, they they always sort of have been for the last few years, especially the last sort of six months of last year, after a really good start, I'm then into this season.
00:01:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:01:51
Rob Binns
It's very much what Spurs turn up on the day as to how well they play. Like I said, if we get the Spurs that turned up against the second half against Villa on last weekend, we're in big trouble.
00:02:02
Rob Binns
But if we get we get the Spurs turned up at Palace, then we've got a good chance to go and get something.
00:02:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:02:07
Rob Binns
so know, they're hard to read because On their day, they're fantastic and they've scored the most goals in the league and we have a dodgy defense, so that's a problem.
00:02:17
Rob Binns
But then at the same time as that, they've only lost one less game than us. Everyone slags us off and says how rubbish we are, but we haven't won a game. We've lost five, they've lost four.
00:02:28
Rob Binns
So it's not that much.
00:02:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:29
Rob Binns
and like It just depends, like I say, if what Spurs turn up, because it could we could get battered or there could be a really big chance to snatch a result
00:02:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
Key Players to Watch
00:02:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Which, if they do turn up, which players do you think maybe the reason why they could come out with a win? I think I very much personally been impressed a lot this season with Brennan Johnson and obviously Slankey, who kind of brought in seemingly as the ah heir apparent to Harry Kane, maybe with Charlotte and wasn't there.
00:02:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Stryker, they were hoping could be the main number nine. Two players as well, I think, who I think you agree with me, have made an, I know that they've been Premier League players now for a couple of seasons, but obviously were championship players when it had their first big season with Bournemouth and Forest for both guys.
00:03:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now they've made that leap as players and are reaping the rewards. Like, mostly for me, stick out with the same for you or anyone else on the Spurs side of things.
00:03:22
Rob Binns
Yeah. So I mean, Solanke was fantastic last year, Bournemouth weren't he? And yeah he has been, like you said, the heir to Harry Kane, because he yeah he's been dropping in like him that he's almost been not getting up the pitch to score the goals because he's been dropping in too much and linking the play.
00:03:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:37
Rob Binns
And then typically for our sort of luck, as we were saying that we're going to be Rube Cameron's first game that suppose then he seems to decide in the last 45 minutes against Villa that actually they stick Solangi up front and let him score goals and then he scores a brace just before he has to come and play us and I'll leaky defence so that's going to be fun. but Just suppose the chat generally though, I mean Kouloszewski has been fantastic this year, he's shifted into that role in the number 10 role, we've moved him in from out wide because of obviously the form of Johnson and you're not going to dispose Son on the other side. He's sort of been forced into this
00:04:09
Rob Binns
more number 10 sort of role. And he's kicked Madison out the team who we know, we know the quality Madison's got. And he started, he plays more games on the bench and he does on the start now.
00:04:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Tough to do, yeah.
00:04:17
Rob Binns
And Koulis Eski has been fantastic in that number 10 role. And that has been the sort of position who has hurt us in other weeks. And that would say with our ever changing midfield, that we're going to be forced into a change again with Phillips's suspension, that those sort of tricky number 10s have been able to get big foothold in games and cause us problems.
00:04:38
Rob Binns
if if we don't turn up. And like I say, Koolis FC, the form he's in, set both goals up when they beat Man City in the League Cup the other week, set another one up against Villa. He is sort of the heartbeat of the attack at the moment on the creativity side.
00:04:52
Rob Binns
So we've singled them three out. And then the one with missed out is Son. So do we do we really need to say anymore that our only hope is that they're still managing his minutes and he might not play very long. Rather than that, like he's a huge threat.
00:05:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
He very much didn't seem... He very much didn't seem too pleased about being...
00:05:06
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:05:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was taken off on the weekend, I believe, the last league game.
00:05:11
Rob Binns
Yeah, he wasn't happy with us.
00:05:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he didn't seem... Yeah.
00:05:13
Rob Binns
He obviously thinks he's he obviously thinks he's flying, and obviously he was having a decent game, but then from manager's point of view, you've just had him injured for ages. He's come back, played two games, got injured again, had to miss another couple of games.
00:05:26
Rob Binns
So obviously he's going to take a bit more care of managing his minutes this time around, because games are at that point of the year now where the big teams, like Asperger's, who are in Europe, are pretty much playing every midweek now, between now and Christmas, as well as obviously every weekend.
00:05:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:05:41
Rob Binns
that they haven't got much break. So you can't be taking risks on people that have just come back from injury like son, because as we'll get to at some point, I assume that they have got some big injuries so and they don't want any more.
00:05:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. And he's only one of the few players who's north of 30 now and that in that team. And obviously he's been a fantastic servant for for many years. But as you've seen with the likes of Johnson's stuff, maybe the years in which him being the main guy on the wing could be fading away. I'm not sure, but obviously he's still one of their top players, one of the best players in the league on his day. That's for sure.
Spurs' Management and Strategy
00:06:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll touch on the manager now, Andrew Prostikoglou. I think he very much has won the Spurs fans over, not necessarily with, you know, I think we were Spurs are kind of always a bit of a ah joke when it comes to trophies and maybe some Spurs fans. on Obviously any fan would like to win a trophy, but it may not be their highest priority priority each season. They very much seem to have found the method of style play that they like. And I think a lot of fans do like after the likes of Kontin really you tried to play not the Spurs way, shall we say. But he definitely has won a lot of fans over from our other clubs, it maybe including some Arsenal or Chelsea fans, whether they'd like to admit it or not.
00:06:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
but What do you think of his goal should be this season? He did obviously mention how he's won a trophy in all his second seasons at his other clubs. Big pressure saying that the start of season. Obviously through to the next round of the EFL Cup, I don't think the prem is really logistical. Aim for them. But obviously they're in plenty of competitions this year. What do you think of him as a manager and then just how far he can take this team? He seems like a good man to be leading a couple of experts, doesn't he?
00:07:14
Rob Binns
Yeah, he's a project sort of manager, isn't he? and e They started well ahead of schedule last year and then sort caught up with themselves a bit as it played on, because all sorts of records he broke last year early on.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Yeah.
00:07:26
Rob Binns
I think they i think this time last year, the 10 game period, I think they were top of the league with nine wins and one draw. should This is an unbelievable start for someone who's only really managed in smaller leagues before without disrespect in Australia, Japan, and Scotland.
00:07:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:43
Rob Binns
it was a big step up for him to come to Spurs. He's had a very impressive first year, got some big results in there, a few dodgy ones and started to maybe tail off towards the back end of the season.
00:07:53
Rob Binns
They'll probably feel that they should have been finishing the top four ahead of Villa. They sort of threw that away towards the end. So imagine the aim this year, like I say, make the first aim, they're not going to be unrealistic and say win the title this season, but I think they'd been wanting top four and ideally a trophy, like you say, that
00:08:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:08:12
Rob Binns
quarter-finals of the League Cup. They have got Man United, which is a tough one for them, but they've already knocked City out, so you never know how it's going to go. that That one feels the most realistic for me, that the League Cup, not just because they're already, there's only there's already down to the point, and there's only seven other teams in it, but I just think the FA Cup has so many twists and turns and it ultimately, and the Ober League is a lot of quality there, but ultimately it's just luck of the draw fair and they've
00:08:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Hmm.
00:08:38
Rob Binns
I've actually been fairly unlucky with the draws I've had in the League Cup and they've got through so far. So that's the one for me.
00:08:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:44
Rob Binns
But yeah, I think top four is the aim. I don't think they'll be aiming any higher than that. And and it's got they've got a sort of consistency out first.
00:08:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolutely. I think, yeah, like you said, EFL Cup, a lot of fans do kind of besmirch it a lot. Maybe some people paraphrase it as the Mickey Mouse Cup, which I think is a bit unfair to some clubs. I mean, Newcastle fans have bit your hand off a year or so ago to win that trophy as they were sort of building their project. And I think for a club like Spurs, to get that sort of trophy monkey of your back, so to speak, this is the tournament for that. But they very much have had a sort of like 50-50 start to the season with a few wins and few losses there. But yeah, I think fourth would definitely be their aim as the season goes on. We're going to take a break now. When we come back, we're going to discuss Town's chances this weekend, as well as how the side may look as they head to North London.
Ipswich's Midfield Dilemma
00:09:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
and we are back here on the daily up switch previewing town's away trip to Tottenham this Sunday this Sunday not Saturday guys remember that yes a lot of changes for town as they seem to be every single week coming into this weekend one of the things I'll start with Rob is the central midfield pairing due to Calvin Phillips' suspension after that red card last week, it looks like we'll be getting the pairing all things considered injuries-wise if nothing rears its head in the next next few days of Sam Mosey and Kajuse, however pronounce the lad's name, bless him, that seems like the pairing we're we're going to get.
00:10:26
Rob Binns
Hmm.
00:10:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
What do you think of that? I'm bringing that up just because they seem to be playing a 4-3-3 at the moment Spurs, so to have maybe could get overwhelmed or a bit more freedom. I don't know, there's a few to unpack there, isn't there?
00:10:41
Rob Binns
Yeah. it's in It's not a partnership we've seen much of, really, is it? more There's no beens not been a secret that Morsy and Phillips is the ah is is the preferred two. We've had Phillips and Caduce.
00:10:53
Rob Binns
I think it was just Southampton, I think, that's the one time we've seen Morsy and Caduce together.
00:10:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
I believe so, yeah.
00:10:58
Rob Binns
And it wasn't a great game, was it? Obviously, we nabbed the last minute equalised, but ultimately, we were we struggled against who I would say are the worst team in the division for the majority of the game and their midfield.
00:11:12
Rob Binns
It should be fair, I was going to say, isn't great, but it's one of the better areas of their team can for Southampton. But it's certainly an unproven partnership. And like you say, you look at the quality Spurs have got, and I said, you got sort of Kuleszewski, I said, I highlighted earlier that I worry about as being a problem. But then even if he doesn't, it if he can manage to keep him quiet, then he'll just come off and they'll put Madison on who's going to cause problems in that area. He's got likes of Busumah, Saar, Bentankor, lots of quality in the midfield for Spurs. I do worry, like I said, just because they haven't had a chance to build. The only the only partnership we've had a chance to let build and start working together is Mausie and Phillips, which has actually been working, but through suspension, we are forced to break that up. And I'm not sure how, ah ah so they haven't had much time to play together to bounce off each other's strengths. And Caduceus hasn't had too much time in general that we're not going to see the best. I'd be shocked if he comes in and we see the best of him really, just because he has had a bit of a lack of game time and he's still adapting to Premier League football.
00:12:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree. What do you think about He obviously touched on Caduce there. He did start, I believe, with Phillips, and obviously he's going to be a Phillips on the weekend. It was against Brentford, which that first 30 or 35 or so, I think, from the whole entire team was arguably the best performance for season up to that point. Do you see, I think, you know, coming from Napoli, it's Swedish international. It was obviously a good player there, almost joined Brentford in the summer, which, you know, at this moment in time are a better club than us on the pitch.
00:12:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you see like him potentially usurping one of those two if he can prove it on the pitches? Because he seems like he has a decent hand.
00:12:49
Rob Binns
Yeah, I think we just need to see more of him, don't we? like Obviously everyone, I say he's adapting to Premier League football, but most of our squad is adapting to Premier League football for the first time. but he's He's the sort of outlier that has come to a new country, because we don't recruit many players.
00:13:05
Rob Binns
and There's something Ashton brought up in his interview earlier this week that we don't tend to recruit from foreign countries very often.
00:13:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, yeah.
00:13:11
Rob Binns
We go down the solid sort of English academy route a lot of the time, if nothing else, or eat or just go and sign and sort of regular starters from teams below us and try and bring them the step up that we don't sort of venture into the foreign market very often and so we're not sort of, we're almost not used to having these sort of players that have to come over and adapt to English football that it probably is going to take a longer time than it would have took him to adapt at Brentford or somewhere just because it'd have people that knew the experience but we don't really so he's sort of an outlier in the squad even though like i say the whole squad generally is playing Premier League football for the first time most of them but he stands out as having the hardest way to adapt really but he's is's obviously quality there because they you don't get in and around a big clean a big team like Napoli especially the way they've been the last couple of years without being a decent player
00:14:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
What do you think about, just going on a slight tangent here, but you wrote what a good point there, because obviously, like Ashley said, this interview hasn't really gone for players outside of the UK and Ireland this previous transfer window, or in recent years, let's be honest. Do you think that was the case this year of just because, you know, it's our first season back in the prem, best to get players who are used to the quite and quite English game, shall we say, and then if we do survive this season, do you see that more of a possibility of maybe looking around the rest of Europe and the rest of the world and bringing those sort of players in? We haven't really been known for many international players in recent years, but do you think that should be something the club should explore in the years to come?
Recruitment and Market Strategies
00:14:42
Rob Binns
Yeah I think it depends how things go on the pitch because I don't think at the moment we have the pull to, but if I'm being honest, to go and nab players or the money because Premier League itself is quite a big pull to draw draw people in but you've then got to have the money to back it up which we don't we sort of need at least, we need to stay up this year at least and just
00:14:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:15:04
Rob Binns
I'm like the the longer time you spend in the Premier League, the more attractive it ah option option you look for people from outside of England. And I don't think it's something to exploit it just because I think it's going to lead to a lot more rejections. Whereas we give, we continue what we're doing. We're, we're going to get a decent squad of players together on top of what we've already got. I think only there's something you have to do. You can't, the way the games evolve now, you have to Well, you have to incorporate the foreign markets as well as the English one if you're going to build a top squad that wants to compete at the highest level because there's just simply more and avenues to explore.
00:15:41
Rob Binns
So you look at Brighton going scout random leagues in South America and pull out these world-class players. There's markets there to to be looked at and taken advantage of.
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Moving on to back to the game. Sorry, I kind of went a bit of a tangent there, but you raised a good point, so I wanted to explore that. With the game on the weekend, we'll get on our predicted lineups in the later on in the show, but Do you see our front three remaining the same as what it was last week? I mean, you know obviously injuries may be playing a factor as to who we may start there, but do you see it being the similar one of Hutchinson, Chaplin, Schmodix, or maybe Jack Clarke, or even Burns come into that spot? how do you see if Is those same three, how do you see them fairing this weekend?
00:16:25
Rob Binns
that's a tough one, really. I think Chaplin and Hutchinson, a definite. These, the slot is on that left hand side.
00:16:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:16:33
Rob Binns
That's well, it's up for debate because I still don't like Smodik's on the way that he's had his, he had probably his best game against Brentford. And he was sort of shifted to a fair, actually, to be fair, he did actually play but a decent chunk of the Brentford game on the wing, but he drifted a bit more centrally.
00:16:52
Rob Binns
And I'm not sure he'd be allowed to do that against Spurs.
00:16:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:54
Rob Binns
I think I'd rather have out and out wingers in Amari and probably Clark to try
Ipswich's Attack Strategy
00:16:59
Rob Binns
and stretch. so We know their fullbacks like to get up as well. So if we can, and that will leave space behind them.
00:17:04
Rob Binns
And they've got their two second choice centerbacks out unless there's some miraculous recoveries in the next couple of days from van de Ven and Romero that you want to be able to sort of bait the fullbacks into running forward and then run at these centerbacks who don't play overly much football.
00:17:19
Rob Binns
And they're not the first choices where there might be so bit of nerves there and I'd say I want actual wingers that are going to sort of hug the touchline and run in behind rather than someone like Smodik's who's going to drift a bit more central.
00:17:31
Rob Binns
Then naturally that benefits with having Chaplin there as well, the way he links the play and gets involved and those sort of balls.
00:17:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:17:38
Rob Binns
There is space behind Spurs as Forback's Poirot especially but because we know he likes to get forward and he's a goal threat, which is something we have to watch at the other end. but I wouldn't like Smolik. I feel like Smolik's against Poro would be a bit of a waste. I'd want someone like a Clarke or Hutchinson over there and then Burns on the other side to try and make the most of those gaps Poro does leave.
00:17:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's weird with Schmonix. I think, you know, because Chapman has put in two good performances back to back now against Brentford and Leicester. So I feel like if you're going by form, he does deserve to have his spot this weekend. But Schmonix is a weird one because I agree with you. I think he's better in the middle. His best performances so far for the club have not been maybe necessarily started on paper on the middle of the park, but whereas performed best is in that part of the field. Do you feel like you know, one of them, hit him or Chapman has to make way. It seems a bit unfair because I feel like they both can provide something good for the team, but it seems difficult to have them both on the pitch at the same time, doesn't it? I don't know.
00:18:36
Rob Binns
Yeah, but I just think it's tough because in my opinion Boatwell, obviously we know Chaplains is, but in my opinion Smodix's best position is in the 10 and we've got two players who are on form, you get the best out of them in the same position and we can't really with the system we play get them both in about someone being asked to play out of position which I think it depends who you play against though because
00:18:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:00
Rob Binns
It's worked, like Smodix has been drifting a bit more central on Support and Chaplin, and it's worked in the last two games, but I don't think that suits us against Spurs as much as it has done against Brentford and Leicester.
00:19:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Quality of opposition.
00:19:13
Rob Binns
Yeah, because like Leicester, obviously, you think, if imagine Smodix on the left, I'm trying to think who he's up against. You had Pereira last week, who drifts in and plays Centimid, as we knew from the championship.
00:19:24
Rob Binns
So then that sort of helps with Smodix there, that sort of doesn't upset the flow of the game that he goes there as well, whereas Poirot runs up and down the wing the whole time, he doesn't tend to invert as much.
00:19:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:36
Rob Binns
So then the space is out wide, which Smodix isn't going to go and take advantage of, whereas someone like a Clarke would.
00:19:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:43
Rob Binns
I don't know, I wouldn't be against him because he had two good games now. I can't i wouldn't can't argue with that same front four playing again because they are all, they arguably the one in the weakest form is actually Hutchinson, but I know he's not going to lose his place anytime soon.
00:20:01
Rob Binns
So I wouldn't be against those four, but for me, Clark for Smodex would be my one change in attack.
00:20:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:20:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it seems difficult. I think it's maybe a game by game basis with those two in terms of, like you said, what kind of suits the style of play.
00:20:12
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:20:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think you made a great point there, the fullbacks as well. I think you do do that pace on the side. I touched on it slightly there. Spurs seems to be playing a 4-3-3 at the moment. How do you see us sort of faring against formation like that, because it seems like, I don't know, ah maybe maybe you can tell me otherwise, but it seems like a formation is becoming less frequent these days, four, two, three, ones, or maybe seems to be the more preferred style from a lot of clubs. But yeah, I don't know, how do you see us faring against formation of it and how can we potentially exploit that in certain areas?
00:20:46
Rob Binns
I think it's just trying to analyze where Spurs leave gaps really. Midfield isn't really one of them with the bodies they've got in there. There's not the sort of team you can break through the middle and maybe more so with the centre back. So the other thing Spurs have as well and we will normally have, I should say, with van de Ven is a centre back who loves to bar the field and creates options that way as well, which then you do get a bit of space in the middle.
00:21:15
Rob Binns
I don't think Dragison or Davis will fill that goal.
00:21:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
that goal against United.
00:21:18
Rob Binns
Yeah, exactly. But for me, for the way to get the area for Spurs is out wide because their fallbacks are so advanced. that trend i say it feels like I have to say every week, our best chance of transitions with the attackers we've got.
00:21:30
Rob Binns
But Spurs are a team you can hurt on the transition because if you win it in the right place, you'll catch a doggy in Poro 15 yards out of position. And then there's space to work with there before they get bodies back.
00:21:43
Rob Binns
For me, I'm not a tactician by any stretch of the imagination. For me, if I was if i look at Spurs, I don't want to try and play through the middle. I'm trying to work it wide and then come inside afterwards. I don't think you're going to get as much much joy going around the likes of Vesuma, Bentank or Saar, whoever plays in there. And then the two centre backs behind them, where and you can sort of quash the threat of a doggy in Poro one way. and and make them out and then catch them in the transition the other way. I think that's the area to target really.
00:22:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think Dilap could have some, I know obviously that you know Davis and Dragison aren't exactly any slouches, but do you think Dilap could have some more fun, shall we say, than it's good that Romero and van de Ven aren't around this week, and by the looks of things, I think they may be by the time we get to Sunday, but by the time they don't, they're going to be in Spurs starting lineup even on the team that weekend.
Exploiting Defensive Weaknesses
00:22:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
So do you think Dilap could have some fun against those two? I think the way he plays against centre backs is quite bullish, which is rare to see from Stryker's these days, only a few seem to do that. I think this could be a game from where it could cause a bit of nuisance.
00:22:49
Rob Binns
Yeah well I think I think so yeah naturally you're going to be more confident when you know you're playing third and fourth choice center half instead of first and second choice that although the advantage Spurs have with playing Europa League is that these two have actually played each other with each other a few times already this season because they have been sort of the regular Europa League pair and a lot of the time they will rotate both center backs and
00:22:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:23:13
Rob Binns
but some of the games they've been playing with their Dragison got sent off in the first five minutes or something in one of their games. So he probably is that... Dragison and Romero strike me as fairly similar players from the limited things I've seen of Dragison since he signed. the The difference is Davis and Van de Ven, because Van de Ven's biggest outlet is his pace and Ben Davis just simply doesn't have that. He's never had that pace and now he's in his early thirties, he definitely doesn't have that pace.
00:23:38
Rob Binns
And that's where the, that's the best drop-off is.
00:23:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:41
Rob Binns
He's still a very good player in his own right, but he's not, but he's not Van de Ven. They have to change the way they play to get the best out of Davis compared to having Van de Ven. there So that's probably where the lap would be leaning.
00:23:53
Rob Binns
I imagine someone of his attacking intelligence.
00:23:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very interesting to see. I'm intrigued how we're going to be against them. It's going to be a tough game this week, and that's for sure. We're going to take a final break of today's show. When we come back, we're going to offer you our predicted lineups, as well as our prediction for the overall score, as well as looking to any international clubs that have reared their heads as we head towards the international break in the coming week.
Ipswich's Predicted Lineup
00:24:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
and we are back here on the final part of today's daily Ipswich previewing town's trip to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this Sunday. Predicted line-up to time, Rob. We'll go through the goalkeeper and back four. I'll start off with mine and then you can tell me if you've gone any different. So I think it may likely will be of the usual suspects of last weekend, injuries-wise and to an extent form-wise as well. but mech Johnson, O'Shane Burgess has a sense about pairing then Leif Davis with likes of Greaves and Twanzavi still out unfortunately. it Looks as if we can have a maybe not a full strength defense again but is that what your head's leaning towards as well?
00:25:21
Rob Binns
Yeah I don't see any reason to change it from last week because we said Johnson and O'Shea had their best games for the club against Leicester and obviously Burgess has been brilliant since you've been brought back in and Davis is Davis so there's no enough said there really if he's fit he's playing.
00:25:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:25:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Touching Bird is there, like, I know you guys touched it on Monday's show after when you were recapping the Leicester result on Tuesday's show, sorry, I should say. But, you know, I think we all kind of, I'm sorry for rehashing content here, guys, but I just want to sing his praises a bit more, because I've been like, yeah, been really impressed with the past few games. We saw with Greaves and Wolfie as the potential parent, and it was Greaves and O'Shea for a few weeks before Greaves and 40 went out. And we were kind of like, hmm, what do we do now? Because we haven't really got a proven player there. But, you know,
00:26:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
he's He's Australia international, whether you want to rank Australia's a decent international side is up to you, but he's played at a top level outside of the Premier League against some big sides and he's definitely put in a decent performance for the past weeks. I can't really fault him for and really any of the errors towards goals, I think. He seems like a really reliable hand, and we've said this many times, but having that sort of familiarity with your surroundings, players and pitch and stuff, it's it's all good stuff. um What are your thoughts on him and how he's fared recently?
00:26:39
Rob Binns
Yeah, hes he's been a surprise, isn't he? I don't think any there's many people that thought he would adapt this well, and he was always the one that was going to make his way out the team and when the signing of Greaves was announced.
00:26:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:26:51
Rob Binns
No one felt that Wolfie would be the one displaced, particularly obviously Greaves, preferring to play on the left-hand side as well, where Burgess had been playing. He's always is's going to be the backup choice
00:27:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:27:04
Rob Binns
for Greaves that's that's his role now if he wants it and it's up to him whether he's happy with that role and try and maybe fight his way onto the right centre back slot or be the cover when Greaves is injured or whether he does want to move on but he's certainly a very valued deputy to have for Greaves as we've seen so far but he's been fantastic but I don't think he when Greaves is back fit I don't think I think he comes straight back in rather than Bird just holding up holding the spot really but
00:27:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:34
Rob Binns
He's a fantastic deputy to have, and he's the ideal candidate really, and he's shown that in a couple of games he's played.
00:27:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:27:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, very much so. I'm missing grooves a lot. I don't know about you. Like, I don't know if we've got a timeframe yet, unfortunately, to club the hole in their cards close to their chest.
Striker Choices Against Spurs
00:27:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Have you seen anything? it Unless you can give us a scoop here, but I don't think I've heard anything about, oh, you know, eating.
00:27:52
Rob Binns
I just knew, I've always known it's going to be after the international break, but obviously the international break is after this weekend, so I don't know how far after the international break.
00:27:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Yeah, it's in the in the future.
00:28:04
Rob Binns
yeah
00:28:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm missing the guy over here, a really good start. and I really hope he gets back soon. We'll go through the midfield pair and we obviously touched on them early in the show, so we won't go into too much detail here, but because you used to Mausie, seems like the only pair we can really offer unless Jack Taylor surprisingly comes through.
00:28:15
Rob Binns
yeah yeah don't know i still think regardless of taylor being back fit or not i think they'll be the two that start i think they're the
00:28:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, we've got those two there. Then front three. Yep, sorry, gone.
00:28:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:28:30
Rob Binns
I think the way I saw it, I think it's Morsy and Phillips are the preferred two. I think we've gathered that now. They've started the most games together and then could use his first backup. And then the one going Taylor there is almost injury cover or subs really.
00:28:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Long go.
00:28:42
Rob Binns
I don't see them start on many games.
00:28:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree. I forget about long go. I thought I had about doing that, but it's a lot of players in that team right now. Front three. Tell me yours first, because you we've we kind of dissect them how they may line up this weekend.
00:28:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, where where's your head out of that?
00:28:59
Rob Binns
Well, I've got two different answers here. I've already told you mine what I would do, but I think if we're doing predicted, I think Smolix will play again.
00:29:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. Okay.
00:29:08
Rob Binns
I think it'll be the same four.
00:29:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
So Amara in the right, Chaplain Middle, Schmodak's left.
00:29:13
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:29:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:15
Rob Binns
And to that through the middle, obviously that one's nailed on.
00:29:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I'm in agreement with you. Yeah, I'm in agreement with you. I think it's, you know, obviously last week was a heartbreaking way to not come away with all three points, but you know, the performances are slightly better the past couple of weeks than they have been prior to that.
00:29:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think keeping that same 11 is probably the best foot forward and obviously we'll end with who I assume is going to start. top with Mr Lee in the lap.
00:29:43
Rob Binns
Yeah, you'd have to hope so. Unless he's got some sort of injury.
00:29:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
00:29:47
Rob Binns
Although Hearst did do very well in the one game he starred.
00:29:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah we've we've touched on both of these guys, I think heading into the Leicester game a week or so ago, saying how you know it's good to have two strikers who are confident and it's a position we really are very happy with at the moment. But yeah, I really want to see a dilapco. It's been a few weeks now since you've seen well we saw him against Brentford, but didn't see one last week. If it's not a goal one week, it seems like a long time because he was banging him in, to be fair, isn't he? Bless him.
00:30:15
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:30:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Score prediction, Rob. Where are you going with this? I know you're a bit more of a pessimistic member of our team here, but where has he had it?
00:30:21
Rob Binns
Yeah, but I mean, if we look at it, we try and be as positive as we can be, but we saw the very subtle things we're trying to hold on to really that we suppose the last two games have been fantastic.
00:30:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a tough game.
00:30:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:30:35
Rob Binns
I mean, the city result is one you could see coming. because we know their records against Man City at home is very good, but they still have to go and get the job done.
00:30:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:30:46
Rob Binns
And second half, especially, but generally against Villa, they're superb. but First half, fairly even, probably actually quite a dub, especially in comparison to the second half, but they blew Villa away, and Villa were not a bad team at all.
00:30:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:31:00
Rob Binns
We saw their quality when we and they came to our place. They had an off day and still were 2-1 up within half an hour. We know they're they're no team they're not a team that rolls over like they did to Spurs in the second half, but I say that they're quite menial things, but there is things that obviously to hang on to, maybe more hope than expectation, but it'd be so Spurs to follow that Villa performance by losing to a team that hadn't won a game all season.
00:31:28
Rob Binns
and the
00:31:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:31:28
Rob Binns
Imagine that screenshot of the last four results and it would be like losing the palace, beating C, beating Villa, losing the whip suits. That would just be prime spurs. And I've done my research this morning.
00:31:41
Rob Binns
They haven't won consecutive, they've only won consecutive Premier League games once all season.
00:31:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:31:47
Rob Binns
And obviously they won at the weekend. So if we're going to run on that fact, they're due a draw or a loss this weekend, the way they've been going. And the
Game Predictions and Expectations
00:31:55
Rob Binns
other factor in our favor,
00:31:58
Rob Binns
that is sort of probably the most the best thingss and the best argument I've got really. I'm just f throwing stats and hoping for the best is that they're playing Galatasaray tonight when this when you would be listening to this.
00:32:12
Rob Binns
And not only is that, yes, and away from home.
00:32:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Is that away or at home?
00:32:16
Rob Binns
So like not only is that, we know what the atmosphere is like in Turkey, it's gonna be a horrible place to go.
00:32:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Tough game.
00:32:23
Rob Binns
But obviously also that's,
00:32:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:32:25
Rob Binns
they and They're not going to get back from Turkey until the very early hours of Friday morning. So they don't get too much prep time to turn around for the game. And depending on how that game goes, they're going to get a big result and they won't need it. But if they get like it beaten tonight, and they just then they have to do that long flight back early hours in the morning where they're all tired and down, then that's not exactly the best way to set yourself up for a game on a Sunday. So ultimately, I It ends the same way as I started when you asked me the first question today. It depends what spurs turn up, and I'm going to hope that it's to not as impressive spurs that turn up and say that we can k nick a 1-1 draw.
00:33:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's exactly what I've gone for. You've hit the nail on the head there with it, it'd be very, very spurs. This is the unfortunate thing I think a lot of their fans probably hate, but there's jokes fired their way for a reason, because history does kind of show that they are very good one week.
00:33:21
Rob Binns
No, exactly that. It's just why it is for me. It's such a nailed on Spurs win, but I don't i don't think it will happen.
00:33:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, what?
00:33:30
Rob Binns
ah ah It's so obvious that Spurs should go and win, which is exactly why I think they won't and we can get something.
00:33:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I really, really hope so. That's going to do it for today's show. Thank you so much for listening, rob everyone, and of also Rob as well. Thank you so much for listening and Rob for joining me as well. Join us tomorrow for our crossover with the Daily Spurs where we're going to go back and forth about Saturday's game, maybe get an answer to the Spurs way of playing as well from our colleagues over at their podcast as well. But yes, thank you so much for listening and we'll see you guys tomorrow.