Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool Match History 1894-2012

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Liverpool host Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Monday 6th February 2012 in the 24th round of the 2011-12 Premier League season.

Liverpool come into the match in 5th place on 38 points, while Spurs are in 3rd place on 49 points.

This will be the 161st time the two teams have met.

The first meeting came on Boxing Day in 1894 when Liverpool, who had been established just two years earlier after a dispute with Everton, played a friendly at Tottenham Marshes in a game won 3-0 by Spurs. A further visit from Liverpool was even less successful in Easter 1895 with Spurs winning 6-0.

The first Football League meeting between the two clubs took place at White Hart Lane in November 1909 with Spurs winning 1-0 thanks to a Bert Middlemiss goal. He became the first Spurs player to score against both Merseyside clubs.

The reverse fixture that season was won by Liverpool at Anfield 2-0. Anfield had previously been the home of Everton before their move to Goodison Park.

All 134 League meetings played to date between Spurs & Liverpool have taken place in the Top Flight of English football.

Tottenham's 2-1 First Division win at Anfield in March 1912 would be their last at the ground for 73 years with the jinx finally being broken by a Garth Crooks goal in 1-0 win in March 1985.

The first FA Cup meeting came in the 5th Round in March 1968 and resulted in a 1-1 draw at the Lane. Liverpool won the replay 2-1.

To date, the clubs have met 7 times in the competition with Tottenham's only win coming at Anfield in the 6th Round in March 1995 when goals from Teddy Sheringham and Jurgen Klinsmann earned a 2-1 victory.

The teams first met in the Football League Cup in 1972 and have played 7 times in the competition with Spurs winning four games with two draws.

Liverpool's only win came in the 1982 Final at Wembley which was won 3-1 after extra time. Steve Archibald put Spurs ahead but Ronnie Whelan's brace and a goal from Ian Rush ensured that the Reds lifted the silverware.

The teams contested the Charity Shield in August that year with League Champions Liverpool beating FA Cup Winners Spurs 1-0.

Liverpool are one of three English clubs Spurs have played in European Competitions to date - the other being Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Spurs beat Liverpool in the 1973 UEFA Cup Semi-Final 2-1 with a brace of goals from Martin Peters but a 1-0 win to Liverpool in the second leg at Anfield meant that the Reds progressed to the Final on the away goals rule.

Two matches were played in Swaziland in June 1984 reulting in a 5-2 win for Liverpool and a 1-1 draw.

In December 1985 and January 1986 the clubs met in the Screen Sport Super Cup - a competition played due to English club's being barred from European competition - with Liverpool winning both matches 2-0.

Both Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur were founder-members of the Premier League in season 1992-93 and are two of the seven clubs who have been ever-present in the competition for the past 20 seasons (Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton and Manchester United are the other five).

The home fixture at White Hart Lane last season in November resulted in a 2-1 win for Spurs. Liverpool went ahead just before halftime with a goal from Martin Skrtel but Spurs came back in the second half with an own goal from Skrtel after 65 minutes and an injury-time winner from Aaron Lennon.

The reverse fixture at Anfield in May proved to be the UEFA Europa League decider with Spurs winning 2-0 with goals from Rafael van der Vaart and a Luka Modric penalty.

During the summer, Spurs added former Liverpool goalkeeper (1997-2000) Brad Friedel to their playing staff.

The game at White Hart Lane in September 2011 was won 4-0 by Spurs with goals from Luka Modric, Jermain Defoe and a brace from new loan signing Emmanuel Adebayor. Liverpool had both Charlie Adam and Martin Skrtel sent-off.

Liverpool have won 17 of the 39 Premier League matches played so far with Spurs on 12 wins and 10 draws.

Overall, Liverpool have the upper hand over Spurs with 73 wins to 48 with 39 of the 160 matches played so far drawn.

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Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool Matches 1894-2012

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They Played for Spurs & Liverpool....​

Nick Barmby
Keith Burkinshaw (Liverpool player, Spurs manager)
Harry Bradshaw
Joe Brough
Ray Clemence
Peter Crouch
Brad Friedel
Charlie Hewitt
Robbie Keane
Oyvind Leonhardsen
Doug Livermore (Liverpool player, Spurs official)
Danny Murphy
Jamie Redknapp
Ronnie "The Rocket" Rosenthal
Neil "Razor" Ruddock
John Scales
Tom Soulsby
Graeme Souness (also Liverpool manager)
John Stephenson
Paul Stewart
Paul Walsh
Christian Ziege

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Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2011-12

Liverpool Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2011-12

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Haven't we played them this season . Relieved there was no mention of that 7-0 in 78/9. That was embarrassing!

 

You just mentioned it

 

2 world cup winners and hoddle in midfield too

 

Why is Gareth below Ade in the scorers list?

 

Didn't realise Bale was our top scorer now, time for Ade to get a couple, I think.

 

Gonna be a tough game - Liverpool will have Suarez back and they cut Wolves apart last night (although Wolves were terrible)

Our win against Wigan yesterday was key to restoring confidence and it was nice to score 3 goals.

Liverpool do seem to still have defensive issues and we should be able to exploit that, especially if Lennon is fit again (although I have to say Kranjcar certainly made a strong case for first team involvement last night).

Not gonna make a score prediction just yet - lot can change by next week!

 

He makes mistakes from time to time so we don't discover the truth that he's a robot that runs on Tottenham stats.

 

Rosenthal starred in one of my favourite games.
FA Cup 5th round replay against Southampton in 1995.

Now here's a surprise.
The highlights are on Youtube. Didn't realise that.

[video=youtube;29GpwMo0yII]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29GpwMo0yII[/video]

 

Liverpool hit some form last season then lost 2-0 to us so hopefully history will repeat itself

 

Great Thread mate, and cheers for posting on our board aswell. (the multi threads havent gone to well recently.lol)

Really looking forward to this game immensely and will ne a massive challenge for us......I would say we are facing possibly the best Tottenham sie I have ever watched before....With real title winning Aspirations...

Has an English manager ever won the premier League before???? Could Arry be the first?

All the same i hope Monday is your last slip up on your path to Glory this season.....But we will have to play at our very best to get a result against you boys. As has been said recently by fans of many clubs, you are playing the best football of anyone in the Premiership at the moment.....

Any way thats it for the Arse kissing foreplay and onto the stuffing....(Hopefully us not recieving this time.)

 

I enjoyed seeing that again PNP cheers

 

Great thread and thanks PNP for posting the clip.
Of all my Livpool v Spurs memories, Pat Jennings 2 penalty saves back in 1972? is the highlight. If I remember there is a pic where even the ref is celebrating the 2nd save!!!

 

i always remember the Klinsmann winner at Anfield i think it was in 1996, FA Cup quarter final

 

tottenham reserves 1 liverpool reserves 0


i recall in the 90's following the spurs reserves in the AVON Reserve league lol and even these matches were used to get one over on some scouse friends.

 

My all time favourite Spurs Liverpool game is when we beat them 2-1 in the 60s from being 1-0 down, and Greavesie scored both for us, including a cheeky free-kick.

IF we win this, I think that will top that memory.

 

Me too. Caskey, Nethercott, Austin. All the greats!

And how many forwards did we have - Rosenthal, Klinnsman, Barmby, Sheringham, Anderton.

 

It was the round following the clip that I posted, Dona.
They sold us Rosenthal for about £100k and he basically cost them a semi-final against Everton!

 

Lennon and Defoe are 'extremely doubtful', apparently.
Kyle Walker should be fine and it's too early to judge for van der Vaart.

 

Which begs the question. WHY THE **** DID WE LET PIENAAR GO?