Charlton's U-18s visit Spurs Lodge in Chigwell on Saturday morning for an inter-group Academy Premier League fixture.
Last season, Charlton finished in 9th place in Group A with 29 points while Spurs finished in 4th place in Group B with 45 points.
Entry to Spurs Lodge is free and there's limited car parking available in Luxborough Lane and the Chigwell underground station (central line) is close by.
Spurs are also competing in the inaugural season of UEFAs NextGen Series and their last match was a 7-1 win against Inter Milan played at Leyton Orient's Matchday Stadium.
Several of Tottenham's Academy players featured in the squad which drew 0-0 with PAOK in Greece on Thursday night in the UEFA Europa League.
In fact, no fewer than 10 of the 18 players in Spurs' squad last night were products of our Academy.
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Match report to follow...
Spurs Lodge, Chigwell
Saturday 17th September 2011, 11am k.o.
SPURS v CHARLTON
(White/Blue) (Red/White)
4-4-2 4-4-2
1(1) 0(0)
Jonathan Miles 1 Dillon Phillips
Grant Ward 2 Jordan Cousins(C)
Daniel Day 3 Morgan Fox
Laste Dombaxe 4 Diego Poyet
William Ekong 5 Semi Ajayi
Kevin Stewart 6 Harry Lennon
Mason Bush 7 Adebayo Azeez
Dominic Ball 8 Bradley Jordan
Shaquille Coulthirst(C)9 Joe Pigott
Lee Angol 10 Harry Gerrard
Jack Munns 11 Tobi Sho-Silva
Kenneth McEvoy 12 Bradley Goldberg
(10)63Mins. (11)73Mins.
Liam Priestley 13
Roman Michael-Percil 14 Oliver Muldoon
(7)46Mins. (10)72Mins.
Oliver Modeste 15 Jamal Willer
Victor Zapatta-Caicedo16 Callum Harriott
17 Holmes Tareiq
(2)62Mins.
Scorers:-
Lennon o.g. 41
Booked:-
Dombaxe 88(Foul) Poyet 20(Late)
Ward 90(Time wasting) Muldoon 83(Foul)
Coach:-
A. Inglethorpe P. Hart
North end. The visitors were Charlton from Group A who have made a good
start to the season losing only once in their opening four matches.
Spurs lined up with Ekong and Stewart at the back with Ward on the right
and Day at left back. Dombaxe and Ball started in the centre of
midfield with a first start for Bush on the right and Munns on the left,
with Angol behind Coulthirst up front. Former Spur Gus Poyet's son
Diego was in the "Addicks'" line-up.
Spurs defended the North goal in the first half and found the going hard
as Charlton closed them down quickly denying them space at every
opportunity. Jordan had a couple of early efforts wide as the visitors
broke quickly themselves. Stewart fired over following a corner before
Poyet went into the ref's book for a late challenge. A corner to the far
post saw Ball's effort cleared off the line. Coulthirst got round the
back to fire into the side netting before forcing Phillips to save at
the expense of a corner. Spurs went in front when a ball over the top
saw Coulthirst in a race with Lennon for the ball with the keeper coming
off his line. Lennon tried to duck under the ball but it came off the
back of his head, passed Phillips and rolled over the line into the net.
Inglethorpe replaced Bush with Percil for the second half on the left
with Munns moving to the right, but the visitors pushed Spurs back for
long periods of the second half as they looked for the equaliser.
Pigott blazed wide before Coulthirst fired over and his next effort was
saved by Miles. Miles then denied Jordan, diving full length to his
left. Jordan drove wide minutes later. McEvoy came on for Angol to work
the right side so that Munns could move inside. Pigott fired well over
before Percil came inside to force a save from Phillips. Muldoon was
booked for something that happened during a spell of Spurs pressure
after the ref had allowed the play to continue.
Muldoon then got forward to fire wide. Dombaxe was shown a yellow card
by the ref for a foul and was followed into the book by Ward for taking
too long over a throw-in. With the referee adding a lot of time Charlton
pushed for a goal but Poyet drove wide and Miles saved well from
Goldberg when Spurs failed to clear. With time running out, Ward broke
down the right, came inside and let fly. His effort was blocked with the
ball running out for a corner which was the last action before the
final whistle.
This was a hard fought win, the first at home this term. Charlton proved
difficult to beat and could have easily earned a point, but for some
bad finishing and good saves by Miles. Dombaxe had a good game playing
in front of the back four and Ward did well both defending and getting
forward. Jordan was the pick of the Charlton side. The Spurs team are
beginning to gel with the quick-passing give and go style coming
together. Opposing teams have learnt that we like to bring the ball out
from the back and are putting pressure on the centre backs which has
resulted in the ball being given away, but today they were more composed
and patient which led to fewer turnovers.
Next week the Academy entertain Aston Villa who lost 0-4 to Fulham today
having been beaten by Charlton last week. Our win today takes us above
Villa who are usually one of our groups strongest sides.
Match Report by Ray Lo, Spurs Odyssey