Stoke City vs Tottenham Hotspur
Match pulse
STKAttacking pressure by 5 minutes
Who won: Stoke 2-1
Stoke City beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at bet365 Stadium. Goals for Stoke: Danny Higginbotham (19' pen) and Rory Delap (53'). Goals for Spurs: Darren Bent (25').
Play by play
- 100'
FULL-TIME: Juande Ramos will be a very worried man. An enthralling game but it ends With Spurs firmly rooted to the bottom of the table and with suspensions and injuries rocking their defence the immediate future looks grim. Well done Stoke though who deserved the points today.
- 100'
Yowzer! Fuller loves these posts. He has absolutely twatted the crossbar to complete his trilogy of struck wood with a long-range effort and that, my dears, is that....
- 98'
Oh dear. Michael Dawson now has been sent off. Spurs defence are having a nightmare today. Dawson is furious but the tackle on Sidibe was high and dangerous. In his defence he did appear to strike the ball initially. The referee is not interested in such intricacies though.
- 96'
Great tackle on Higginbotham by Hutton. Higginbotham may we wondering why he did not take the second penalty after the fine job he made of Stoke's first.
- 95'
Unbelievable!! The penalty taken by Ricardo Fuller strikes both posts before Delap, following up, crashes the rebound against the crossbar.
- 94'
Jonathan Woodgate, however, does not do well at all as he downs Tom Soares (again) to gift Stoke their second penalty.
- 93'
Michael Dawson does well to stick out a boot and put the ball behind for a corner.
- 92'
Gomes boots the ball out of play much to the delight of the Stoke fans and the undoubted annoyance of the travelling Spurs crowd.
- 90'
The clock is showing ninety minutes which usually means only one thing in football parlance. Not so here though. If a game is a day then right now we are just settling down for an early supper rather than brushing our teeth and heading to bed.
- 88'
Jenas, again, is wasteful with the ball and the intended target of his pass, Aaron Lennon, casts him a dirty look.
- 87'
Jenas hits a free-kick well over the Stoke bar and its hands on heads time for the frustrated Spurs fans behind the Stoke goal. And they haven't even got Sol Campbell to vent their anger on today.
- 84'
Soares is at the centre of a neat Stoke through the middle and Fuller then tries a bit of showboating before attempting his own Maradona moment. This is Stoke though and not the Aztec stadium circa 1986 thank you very much Ricardo. Spurs defenders are there to helpfully remind him of this fact.
- 82'
Ryan Shawcross has come on for Ibrahima Sonko.
- 81'
Woodgate remains calm to clear as a cross comes over and Spurs quickly get it up to Pavlyuchenko who almost manages to bundle his way past two Stoke defenders. Delap has other ideas though and wins the ball from the pricey Russian striker.
- 80'
Delap's throw is punched away by Gomes but Stoke come back and win a corner.
- 79'
Jenas wastes a free-kick for Spurs and they will need to do better than that if they are to get anything from this game.
- 77'
Plenty of stoppage time will be added on to this one. Can Spurs pull something out of the bag minus two of their starting line-up?
- 75'
An ambulance awaits as Corluka is carried off. Hopefully he will be on the mend soon. Our thoughts are with you after what looked like a painful encounter.
- 73'
The television replay shows Corluka having a knee firmly applied to his head and it would appear to have knocked him out cold. He is still being looked at on the pitch and is now in a head brace.
- 71'
Corluka is going to be stretchered off and there is a team of medics attending to him on the pitch. More bad news for Ramos but the immediate concern is Corluka at the minute.
- 69'
Corluka appears to have recovered from his chest complaints but has gone down quite alarmingly as he jumped for the ball. He is being looked at by two Spurs physios and hopefully they can get him back on his feet.
- 67'
This getting injured malarkey seems to be catching on and now Vedran Corluka clutches his chest and is in need of a bit of TLC in the form of a magic spray.
- 64'
Euww. Sorensen is pouring claret from the head wound Alan Hutton kindly, and free of charge, has provided him with. Sorensen is taken off to received some much needed knitting in his head and we now welcome Steve Simonsen to the field of play. Hello Steve. May your stay be less painful than that of your colleague.
- 61'
Gomes makes an important save from a long range shot from Olofinjana but Delap is on hand to pounce on the rebound. He ends up winning a throw-in rather than another goal and Spurs are able to deal with that. At the other end, Hutton has gone in late on Sorensen and receives a yellow card for his challenge.
- 59'
Modric comes so close to eqaulising as he hits a fine swerving drive which Sorensen was nowhere near. It's just wide though much to the horror of the Spurs fans behind that goal.
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