Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Shamrock Rovers: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 29 September 2011
Result
Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Shamrock Rovers
Europa League · Thursday 29 September 2011, 19:05 UTC · half-time 0-0
Tottenham Hotspur · Shamrock Rovers · Europa League predictions
Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Shamrock Rovers: match report
Tottenham Hotspur beat Shamrock Rovers 3-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 29 September 2011. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Stephen Rice opened the scoring in the 51st minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Roman Pavlyuchenko (60'), Jermain Defoe (61') and Giovani Dos Santos (65'). Shamrock Rovers scored through Stephen Rice (51').
Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received no yellow cards; Shamrock Rovers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 67th on 5 points from 3 and Shamrock Rovers 87th on 4 points from 3. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Tottenham Hotspur lined up in a 4-4-2 and Shamrock Rovers in a 4-1-4-1.
Going into the match Tottenham Hotspur's last five read D-D-W and Shamrock Rovers's L-W-D.
Key events
- 18'Yellow card · G. McCabe
- 51'Goal · Stephen Rice
- 60'Goal · Roman Pavlyuchenko
- 61'Yellow card · R. Finn
- 61'Goal · Jermain Defoe
- 65'Goal · Giovani Dos Santos
Team news
Tottenham Hotspur line-up (4-4-2)
Carlo Cudicini, Sebastien Bassong, Vedran Ćorluka, Kyle Walker, Jake Livermore, Tom Carroll, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Giovani Dos Santos, Aaron Lennon, Jermain Defoe, Danny Rose
Shamrock Rovers line-up (4-1-4-1)
Richard Brush, Pat Sullivan, Craig Sives, Daniel Murray, Stephen Rice, Gary McCabe, Billy Dennehy, Ronan Finn, Gary Twigg, Stephen O'Donnell, Jim Paterson