2010–11 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season
2010–11 season | ||||
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Chairman | ![]() | |||
Manager | ![]() | |||
Stadium | White Hart Lane | |||
Premier League | 11th | |||
Champions League | Group Stage | |||
FA Cup | Third Round | |||
League Cup | Third Round | |||
Top goalscorer | League: Gareth Bale {2} All: Peter Crouch (4) | |||
Highest home attendance | 35,928 (vs Manchester City) | |||
Lowest home attendance | 34,709 (vs Bsc Young Boys) | |||
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The 2010–11 season is Tottenham Hotspur's 19th season in the Premier League. It is their 33rd successive season in the top division of the English football league system.
The campaign will feature Tottenham's first ever involvement in the UEFA Champions League, with the club entering via the play-off round after finishing fourth in the 2009–10 season.
Season 2010–2011
Transfers
Tottenham began their transfer movement for the 2010–11 season in mid-March, when Spurs completed the deal for young Brazilian midfielder, Sandro, joining the club from Internacional, a club whom Tottenham have a key affiliation, with Sandro linking up with squad following the 2010 Copa Libertadores. Early into the transfer window, Tottenham retained the services of a number of key players with club captain Ledley King putting pen to paper on a new two-year contract extending his role at the club,[1] followed swiftly by the former Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini signing a new one-year contract following his recovery from a serious road accident sustained in November 2009,[2]
Luka Modric was the next player to commit his future with the club by signing an extended Six-year deal, ensuring his services until 2016.[3] After two months of little transfer activity, Tottenham secured the controversial signing of William Gallas on a free transfer following his release from bitter rivals, Arsenal, as a result of the move, Gallas became the first Premier League player to play for Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.[4] On Deadline day, Early into the day, Spurs confirmed the loan signing of Croatian international goalkeeper, Stipe Pletikosa from Spartak Moscow,[5] This looked to be Spurs' only move of the day however, in the final few moments, news broke that Tottenham were in negotiations with Real Madrid midfielder, Rafael van der Vaart, following the closure of the transfer window, the club had to wait for the deal to be ratified by the Premier League, due to complications on the Spurs computer. The transfer was completed the next day, with fee believed to be around £8 million.[6]
During the transfer window, a number of player left Spurs, beginning with young goalkeeper Lee Butcher, leaving to join Leyton Orient on a free transfer after his contract expired at Tottenham,[7], followed a month later by defender Sam Cox signing a contract with Barnet, again, following the expiration of his Spurs contract. Soon after, a number of fringe and academy players, including veteran goalkeeper Jimmy Walker, left the club on free transfers.[8] In early August, QPR completed the permanent signing of Adel Taarabt for a fee believed to be around £1 million, Taarabt had spent to 2009–10 season on loan at QPR before sealing a permanent deal. Tottenham final permanent outgoing transfer of the summer transfer window saw French defender Dorian Dervite move to Spanish club Villarreal C.F. for an undisclosed fee.
The transfer window also saw younger player acquires loan move to gain regular football, The first loan move saw young goalkeeper David Button, fresh off of signing a new three-year contract, join Plymouth on a season-long loan,[9] followed by another young goalkeeper Oscar Jansson joining Northampton until September 2010,[10] and completing three loan moves in a week, England Under-19 international John Bostock left to join Hull for the duration of the 2010–11 season.[11] Six days later, Winger Andros Townsend signed a season-long loan for Ipswich after featuring for Tottenham in their pre-season tour of America,[12] On the same day, Dean Parrett joined David Button at Plymouth on a one-month deal.[13] The following day, Ryan Mason, who also featured in Spurs' pre-season, joined Doncaster on a one-month deal,[14] trailed a week later, with young striker, Jon Obika clinching a move to Crystal Palace for the season.[15]
Pre-season friendlies
Tottenham began their pre-season by facing Harry Redknapp and Kevin Bond's former team, A.F.C. Bournemouth, beginning the pre-season with a comfortable 4–0 win, A goal mid-way through the first half from Jon Obika established a Spurs lead, before a Roman Pavlyuchenko goal doubled the tally, Danny Rose made it three a minute later before another Roman Pavlyuchenko goal wrapped up the game and the winning start.
Spurs, then, began a tour of the United States of America, beginning in San Jose facing MLS outfit, San Jose Earthquakes with the game ending 0–0. Tottenham made the trip to New York, to compete in the New York Football Challenge, a tournament featuring Spurs, New York Red Bulls, Sporting Lisbon and Premier League rivals Manchester City. Spurs' first game saw them pitted against home side New York Red Bulls with their new signing, Theirry Henry making his debut, Henry opened the scoring against his old rivals, before goals from Robbie Keane and Gareth Bale in the second half gave Spurs the 2–1 win.[16] In Tottenham's final game of the tournament, Spurs faced Portugese side Sporting Lisbon, resulting in a 2–2 draw, which resulted in Sporting lifting the trophy of the New York Challenge. Tottenham took an early lead through Robbie Keane, finishing a one-on-one with the 'keeper. Lisbon hit back with goals from Chileans Matías Fernández and Jaime Valdés. Spurs equalised though, 20 minutes from time after Jon Obika ran on to a Keane through ball to earn the draw for Tottenham.
Spurs's first friendly at White Hart Lane in the pre-seaons saw them face Villarreal, mid–way through the first half, Villarreal took the lead with former Manchester United striker Giuseppe Rossi finishing a Santi Cazorla through ball, Villarreal doubled their lead ten minutes later with Rossi socring his second with clincial finishing following a slip from Michael Dawson, Early in the second half, an early goal from Giovani Dos Santos set up a possible comeback but this was extinguised later in the second half, with Rossi securing his hat-trick with a heavily deflected effort on goal, Villarreal wrapped up the game late on with Marco Ruben scoring a tap in to gave the away team a 4–1 win. Tottenham then traveled to Lisbon to play Benfica in the Eusébio Cup. Spurs ended up lifting the trophy after securing a 1-0 win, with Gareth Bale scoring the only goal of the game early into the second half. Tottenham ended the pre-season with a home fixture against Italian side Fiorentina early August.[17] In this game, a defensive error gifted Fiorentina the lead inside 10 minutes through Alberto Gilardino. Ten minutes later Spurs hit back though with an equalising goal from Roman Pavlyuchenko, scoring his 4th goal in pre-season. Fiorentina re-gained the lead though, with a shot from Adem Ljajić beating Gomes. Spurs, however, equilised early in the second half with Robbie Keane goal before earning the 3–2 win with a last minute Robbie Keane goal to end the pre-season with four wins, two draws and one loss.
August
Month summary
Tottenham began the new season against Champions League rivals Manchester City, Tottenham began the game brightly with goalkeeper Joe Hart producing a string of saves to keep the score level, Spurs continued to press but with Hart in inspired form the game finished 0–0 with Spurs beginning the season with a point.
Tottenham's first ever Champions League match followed, with the play-off stage needing to be ngotiatied aginst Swiss side Young Boys before entering the lucrative group stages. Young Boys took an instant lead through Senad Lulić, tapping home to give Young Boys momentum, The lead was doubled nine minutes later, with Cameroonian striker Henri Bienvenu pounching on a Michael Dawson mistake to slot home, amazingly, Young Boys made it three after just half an hour with Xavier Hochstrasser capitalising on a Sébastien Bassong mistake to seemingly put the tie beyong Tottenham, however, just before half–time, Sebastian Bassong earned some redemption, rising highest at a corner to head home. Spurs clawed another goal back late in the second half through a Roman Pavlyuchenko strike to give Spurs two away goals and hope for the second leg. Spurs returned to Premier League action, traveling to face Stoke. Tottenham took the lead early into the first half with Gareth Bale bundling the ball in the net on the 18th minute, Stoke equalised soon after with a Ricardo Fuller strike before mid–way through the first half, Bale scored his second, a stunning volley, to earn Spurs the points.
The Champions League returned to focus for Spurs with the second leg of match against Young Boys, with an 3–2 deficit to overcome, Tottenham took the lead early with Peter Crouch scoring an early header, Spurs made it two towards the end of the first half with Jermain Defoe striking home to make it two, Crouch earned his second and Tottenham's third on the 61st minute mark before wrapping up the game with the his hat-trick and the game's fourth, with a late penalty. The win earned Spurs a place in the Group Stage with a 6–3 aggregate win. Tottenham ended the month with a loss, returning to Premier League action, Spurs faced Wigan at White Hart Lane, the game remained scoreless with Tottenham pressing the home advantage before a break away goal from Hugo Rodallega earned Wigan all three points.
August league table
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August game stats
Month | Games | Won | Drew | Lost | Scored | Conceded | Points | Other |
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August | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | Progression to the Champions League Group Stages |
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