No matter how bad things is at the moment, for some strange reason I always expect we do something against Spurs especially when things is going too well for Spurs at the moment, as our most in-form player Cahill is away for couple of weeks I believe each of our player would believe they would have to step up there game to get results and this would have a positive effect on the team performance.
With Jagielka missing and Heitinga might not be ready I would rather give Duffy a chance rather than Hibbert, honestly I don't want to see VDV or Bale ripe him to pieces, this would be a line-up I did like to see tonight;
---------------------- Howard -------------------------
--- Neville --- Heitinga(Duffy) --- Distin --- Baines ---
--- Coleman --- Arteta --- Fellaini --- Pienaar ----
-------------------- Billy(Rodwell)--------------------
-------------------- Yakubu(Beckford) ---------------
I would like Billy to play in Cahill position, he did look pretty good when he came on for us recently and I believe he did bring us some goal from mid-range, I am fed up seeing Saha upfront no matter how great his movement is? Unless he can score any goal he is useless to us and should only be allow subsititue appearance until he actually found some scoring form.
I would start with this formation and probably around 70mins mark, replace Arteta with Rodwell, Yakubu with Beckford & Billy with Saha and play with this formation for the last 20 mins or so, I believe we could win this game, as I was pretty accurate with the Stoke game, I just know we did lose to them and if lucky we did get a draw.