Half time and what a controversial half.Manchester City have been continually getting lucky through goals that have been ruled out because of fouling,impeding or offside (etc. etc.) but Spurs have held firm in defence,with King,Dawson and Kaboul all doing their bit to keep out Adebayor and Tevez,as well as not making Gomes too busy.
Defoe has been as quiet as a mouse upfront and really hasn't put on the style as he has before.He needs to come deep for the ball,because staying up field is just going to get him skinned by Toure and Kompany.They are too strong for him even though his quick.
Modric has been poor as well,and is finding it difficult to make a good impact through the centre.He will need to drift wide and overlap Bale in crosses to make a dangerous attack in the boxes for Crouch to latch on or Huddlestone to come in from deep to belt one past Fulop,who has not been too busy lately.
If Wright-Phillips comes on for a dissapointing Johnson,then I'm sure that Bale wouldn't handle him very well because of his ventures forward to contribute to Spurs' attacking moves.Zabaleta could just stay back and not have to multi-task,whilst also knowing that SWP can counter the threat of Lennon with the same pace,skill and ability to get past their man.
I have to say,Dawson hasn't been as good as I would thought he would be.King has done the majority of the work,especially when it comes to closing down Tevez.When Adebayor was through on goal,Kaboul was the man to come back and clear.Brillaint defending.Dawson apologised but knew he was lucky to get away with it.King should show now why he deserves a spot on the plane to South Africa with a solid performance tonight.
After that,Spurs should be winning 1-0.