Tottenham Hotspur travel to Deepdale tomorrow evening to take on Preston North End in the fourth round of the FA Cup in a match live on BBC for those not making the trip to Lancashire, with the game kicking off at 6 PM BST. Read some of assistant manager Cristian Stellini’s comments ahead of the match here, the match preview here, or have your say on the match on the Vital Spurs fan forum here.
Below is the pick of the stats going into tomorrow’s encounter:
- Head-to-head: Spurs and Preston have faced each other competitively 68 times in all competitions across 123 years, with Preston winning 21 times, Spurs winning 30 times, and a draw occurring 17 times.
- Of those 68 meetings, 11 have come in the FA Cup, (5 wins for Spurs, 2 draws, 4 wins for Preston).
- The last 4 meetings have all come in the League Cup, with Preston not winning a single tie (3 Spurs wins, 2 draws).
- The last meeting between the two sides was in a 2009 League Cup third round tie at Deepdale, in which Peter Crouch scored a hat-trick in a 5-1 win for Spurs.
- Crouch is one of 5 Spurs players to score a treble in this fixture (the first being Sandy Brown in 1901, second Ernie Newman in 1911, third Len Duquemin in 1953, and then Cliff Jones in 1961 before Crouch).
- Spurs are looking to reach the FA Cup fifth round for a fourth successive campaign, which would represent their longest run of progressions from the fourth-round since achieving this in five consecutive seasons between the 1978-79 and 1982-83 seasons.
- Harry Kane needs just one goal to hit 267 goals for the club and eclipse Jimmy Greaves as Spurs’ all-time record goalscorer (he has yet to face Preston in his professional career, however).
- Indeed, he has scored 14 goals in his past 14 appearances in the FA Cup for Spurs, including the winner last time out against Pompey. He also netted two goals in last season’s fourth-round 3-1 victory against Brighton back in February 2022, in which Yves Bissouma scored for the visitors.