Facing Leeds United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in just under an hour, Spurs have made 6 changes from the side that crashed out of the League Cup at the hands of Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.
Richarlison makes his first start since coming off against Everton with a calf injury on October 15th, while Dejan Kulusevski comes in for a long-awaited first start since September 17th against Leicester. Yves Bissouma and Davinson Sanchez drop out.
Hugo Lloris reclaims his place in the starting XI and also his captaincy, coming in for Fraser Forster, with Emerson Royal also coming in for Matt Doherty, Rodrigo Bentancur slotting in for Oliver Skipp and Ben Davies replacing the injured Ryan Sessegnon. Lucas Moura shakes off tendon fatigue to return to the bench.
Spurs XI: Lloris (c); Dier, Lenglet, Davies; Royal, Bentancur, Hojberg, Perisic; Kulusevski, Kane, Richarlison.
Spurs Subs: Forster, Doherty, Skipp, Sanchez, Gil, Spence, Tanganga, Moura, Bissouma.
Leeds will have to do without Patrick Bamford, Jack Harrison and Mateusz Klich. Despite those absences, the visitors have managed to make a whopping 11 changes from their midweek League Cup defeat to Wolves at Molineux.
Leeds XI: Meslier, Kristensen, Koch, Cooper, Strujik; Adams, Roca, Aaronsen; Summerville, Rodrigo, Gnonto.
Leeds Subs: Robles, Ayling, Firpo, Llorente, Perkins, Gyabi, Gelhardt, Greenwood, Joseph.
Will we ever win one that isn’t a come from behind? I’m too old for this. They’re going to kill me if they always fall behind.
The WC will be a welcome relief, even if it is in the hell hole of forced labor.
What aa lonely site VS has become. The days of a thousand comments on VS seems as distantly in the past as the days of the great library in Alexandria before the Christians sacked it. I’mm feeling like Damascius fleeing to Persia.
Anyway, Bentancur’s brace brough us back from the tortured and dead. A mini re-birth like the days of the classics. Thanks and praises to Jah.
What the hell is Conte doing playing the hapless Emerson Royal?Then he replaced him ( to cheers from Spurs fans!!) with Charlie Chaplin. Both are unbelievably poor.
But we have DJED SPENCE rotting on the subs bench.
P.S. Perisic the only player in the world who can kick a dead ball equally with both feet. Never known another.
Just to keep you company TK but this site is so sad nowadays.
glad to see you, wentworth. our site seems to be dying. oh well, the roman empire ended. brexit killed the british economy. all things pass. but you and I endure so far.
wasn’t able to watch the match today. traveling in brazil. hope to see much of the WC in the damnable Qatar. What a world.
THFC with the world’s best stadium and it host tedium. might as well have hired an NFL coach.
Conte? oh well. Cunte it is.
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