Hernanes in Pyjamas | Lazio at the Lane

God, did you scope out all the squares playing in the Champions League last night? How embarrassing. Chumpions League more like. Am I right? Who’s with me?

With their easy confidence, fashionable haircuts and breath-taking ability; who’re they trying to impress? Not me, that’s for sure. Messi, Pirlo, Scweinsteiger. BORING! Newsflash, poindexter. No-one likes you anymore. All the cool kids play in the Europa League now. Not that over-hyped, corporate fun-vacuum. The Europa Leag-

-oh I give up.

Yes, Europe’s premier club competition is obviously where we’d all like to be this season. At the turn of the year, Spurs were essentially in the limo, on the way to the prom with the loveliest girl in the school- and for reasons we haven’t got the bandwidth to go into here- we, not so much broke down, as flaming barrel-rolled into heavy on-coming traffic. A right old mess.

But you want to hear something good? Tottenham host Lazio tonight in a European competition our coach has not only won before, but has plans to do so again. Earlier in the week, Andre Villas-Boas’ mouth went and said this;

“If we can win a trophy, that represents a lot for Tottenham Hotspur’s history as well and would be something really special.”

The Rome giants arrive in London tonight, like us, on the back of a 3-1 away win from the weekend. While Jermain Defoe was making lean mince out of Brian McDermott’s slipshod backline on Sunday, 800-odd miles south-west in Verona, Hernanes, Klose and co. were wreaking similar such havoc against Chievo. Very unlike us, however, this latest victory comes in a line of three, having beaten Atlanta and Palmero in their opening two fixtures. This, then, a proper team. At that, it would seem, a proper bit of research. I must be ill.

Whether we can expect an all-guns-blazing, full strength Lazio to turn up is perhaps hard to guess. Their manager, Vladimir Petković, has gone down the familiar ‘I’m super serious about this competition’ track and it’s true Italy could do with the odd coefficient point or two. Whatever the case, it should be quite an evening under the lights.

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