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Happy Spursday, Spursland! Today, Tottenham Hotspur welcome Olympique Lyonnais to White Hart Lane in the UEFA Europa League. Lyon are Hugo Lloris' old team, but he's not in net tonight. AVB's doing that rotating goalkeepers thing. Brad Friedel's the man in between the sticks.
We've started a very strong team, except William Gallas is playing, so lol? Not that I hate Gallas or anything, but he's the team's fifth best central defender. It's odd. I'm a bit disappointed that Gylfi Sigurdsson and Tom Carroll didn't get run-outs in this game, but worse things could happen. Here are the lineups.
Our starting team: Friedel, Walker, Gallas, Vertonghen, Assou-Ekotto, Dembele, Parker (c), Lennon, Bale, Dempsey & Adebyaor #COYS #THFC
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) February 14, 2013
La compo pour #spursol : Vercoutre, Réveillère, Bisevac, Lovren, Umtiti, Gonalons, Malbranque, Fofana, Lacazette, Lisandro, Gomis. #teamol
— Olympique Lyonnais (@OL_officiel) February 14, 2013
That's almost Lyon's first choice team. Kickoff is at 8 p.m. local, 3 p.m. ET. You can catch the game on FOX Soccer in Murrica and ITV 1 in the UK.