Tottenham Hotspur travel to Deepdale tonight 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, or the pick of the stats going into the match here,
With regards to tonight’s teams, Antonio Conte has made several changes to Spurs’ line-up from Monday’s 1-0 victory at Fulham.
Fraser Forster, Japhet Tanganga, and Davinson Sanchez all receive a rare start with Spurs hitman Harry Kane dropping to the bench for a well-earned rest. Brazilian number nine Richarlison fails to make the squad alongside Hugo Lloris, Cristian Romero, and youngsters Djed Spence and Pape Matar Sarr.
Preston XI: Woodman, Whiteman, Lindsay, Browne, Evans, Brady, Mccann, Storey, Hughes, Ledson, Cannon
Subs: Cornell, Bauer, Diaby, Cunningham, Potts, Fernandez, Johnson, Woodburn, Cross-Adair
Spurs XI: Forster; Doherty, Sanchez, Lenglet, Tanganga, Sessegnon; Bentancur, Bissouma; Kulusevski, Perisic, Son.
Subs: Austin, Dier, Davies, Royal, Skipp, Hojbjerg, Gil, Danjuma, Kane
Have your say on today’s match on the Vital Spurs Fan Forum here.
Yuk. Grim team of has been. Where is Spence? Where is Harvey White? Where is Alfie Devine. Give youth a chance instead of some of these no hopers.
Sessegnon and Doherty really, really grim. Can’t cross for toffee. Total wastes of space. Sanchez and Tanganga are Championship players.
Surely we have some youngsters to challenge these no hopers.
Only one class player on pitch. Arise my Son.