Manchester - Emmanuel Adebayor ruled out playing for Tottenham Hotspur in a match at Manchester City headquarters. This becomes an opportunity for Jermain Defoe to partner with Rafael van der Vaart.
As in the first meeting of both teams, Adebayor will miss the game tonight because of the clause borrowing by the City mentions that he could not defend the club against Spurs for the landlord.
Manager Harry Redknapp is almost certain to be selecting Defoe as a starter companion Van der Vaart, rather than Roman Pavlyucheko or Giovani dos Santos. The problem is, they judged the combination did not work well since Spurs recruit Van der Vaart from Real Madrid two years ago.
