Predicted Spurs XI, team news vs Liverpool

Tottenham Hotspur are again in Premier League motion this afternoon as they welcome final season’s runners-up Liverpool to north London.

Antonio Conte’s facet have hardly appeared convincing in latest weeks however have nonetheless managed to maintain maintain of third place within the standings, some ten factors away from Jurgen Klopp’s Reds.

In midweek, the Lilywhites wanted a last-minute objective from Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg to safe high spot of their Champions League group, although it got here at a price as Heung-min Son has been ruled out of home motion till after the World Cup.

A spread of mounting accidents has stopped the Italian head coach from rotating his beginning lineup as a lot as he most likely would have appreciated, so we’re absolutely in line to see a similar-looking XI immediately.

Right here’s how we count on Spurs to start out on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium…

Prediction for Tottenham vs Liverpool?

Hugo Lloris will proceed as Conte’s traditional no.1 between the sticks and he could possibly be heralded by the identical again three as Tuesday evening, which means Barcelona loanee Clement Lenglet is sandwiched between Eric Dier (proper) and the versatile Ben Davies (left).

There’s no place for Davinson Sanchez after he lasted simply 57 minutes within the 3-2 win over AFC Bournemouth final weekend, while Cristian Romero is unavailable as a consequence of injury.

Then out extensive, Emerson Royal is more likely to return on the precise, with Ryan Sessegnon holding his place on the opposite flank – that’s as a result of Ivan Perisic appears a super candidate to be pushed ahead to characteristic within the entrance three.

The Croatian veteran was a pure winger earlier than Conte transformed him right into a wing-back at Inter Milan.

With Son and Richarlison injured and doubts over Lucas Moura’s health, there’s absolutely a spot for the 6 foot 1 star – who journalist Oliver Younger-Myles as soon as lauded as a “monster” – subsequent to Harry Kane and Dejan Kulusevski, who is on the market after coming back from his personal damage issues.

It could be a gargantuan name for the Italian to make however the ‘Deki’s’ presence within the closing third has been sorely missed and he’ll be wanted in a sport of this calibre, so he could possibly be the second and closing change.

Each Rodrigo Bentancur and Hojbjerg ought to proceed because the two-man tandem within the engine room, regardless of Yves Bissouma and Oliver Skipp pushing for begins.

Predicted Spurs XI (3-4-3): Lloris; Davies, Lenglet, Dier; Sessegnon, Hojbjerg, Bentancur, Emerson; Perisic, Kulusevski, Kane

AND in different information, Conte may unearth Spurs’ subsequent Robbie Keane in rarely-seen “phenomenal” 20 y/o jewel…