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Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Everton: Baines great free-kick, Van der Vaart scored
Tottenham Hotspur climbed to third position Premier League standings, past Arsenal and Manchester United (MU), after a 1-1 draw with Everton at White Hart Lane on Saturday (23/10/2010). This happened thanks to a single goal from Rafael van der Vaart.
Playing as the host, Tottenham left earlier due to Leighton Baines scored in the 17th minute. Believed to execute a free kick, Baines sent a ball into the corner over goalkeeper Gomes.
The advantage did not last long. In the 20th minute, Van der Vaart managed to Peter Crouch grabbed the bait and fired the ball into goalkeeper Tim Howard.
The position of equilibrium makes the game more heat. Besides frequently involved grabbing the ball, both camps also are equally trying to launch an attack once mastered.
Unfortunately, both sides are not balanced aggressiveness and cooperation careful calculation. In some occasions, they made a mistake in the feed, so the attack did not complete the execution.
Opportunity goals from dead ball also failed to put to good use by both camps. In minute 52, for example, Van der Vaart's free kick is believed to execute and send the ball to Crouch in the penalty box. However, Crouch failed to reach the ball.
Over 90 minutes, Tottenham had the ball as much as 53 percent and accurate off four shots from 13 businesses. Meanwhile, Everton created the two golden opportunities of five experiments.
Tottenham are now collecting 15 points or one point ahead of Arsenal and Manchester United in the fourth and fifth place and four points from Chelsea at odds on the top of the standings.
Team Line-ups:
Tottenham: 1-Gomes, 32-Benoit Assou-Ekotto, 4-Younes Kaboul, 13-William Gallas, 2-Alan Hutton, 3-Gareth Bale, 14-Luka Modric, 12-Wilson Palacios (30-Sandro 45), 7 -Aaron Lennon (9-Roman Pavlyuchenko 69), 11-Rafael van der Vaart, 15-Peter Crouch
Everton: 24-Tim Howard; 3-Leighton Baines, 15-Sylvain Distin, 6-Phil Jagielka, 18-Phil Neville; 7-Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, 20-Steven Pienaar, 5-John Heitinga (2-Tony Hibbert 78), 23 -Seamus Coleman (16-Jermaine Beckford 84), 17-Tim Cahill, Yakubu Aiyegbeni 22-(8-Louis Saha 63)
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