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Tottenham Hotspur face Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday.
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The visitors are eight points below the top four going into the weekend, while Spurs are five points behind league leaders Arsenal.
Match preview
Having secured a crucial 2-1 win away to Marseille to secure top spot in Group D of the Champions League on Tuesday, Spurs should head into Sunday’s encounter against Liverpool with plenty of confidence.
Antonio Conte’s side fell behind yet again to Chancel Mbemba’s powerful header on the stroke of half-time as they looked to be on the verge of being eliminated from Europe’s elite competition, but Clement Lenglet’s equaliser moved them back into second place, before Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg’s rasping injury-time winner clinched top spot.
It was the second successive match where Tottenham came from behind to win after being on the cusp of suffering a third successive Premier League defeat when trailing Bournemouth 2-0 last weekend, but goals from Ryan Sessegnon, Ben Davies and another injury-time winner via Rodrigo Bentancur turned the match on its head.
Indeed, while Liverpool have massively struggled for consistency this season, their 2-0 win against Napoli in the Champions League on Tuesday was further evidence that they can still mix it with any team on their day.
Jurgen Klopp’s side are the only team to have beaten Manchester City, Newcastle and the Italian league leaders so far this season, yet they have fallen to successive Premier League defeats to Nottingham Forest and Leeds United in recent weeks.
Team News
Tottenham suffered a major blow at Stade Velodrome in midweek, with Heung-min Son withdrawn during the first half having suffered a fractured eye socket in a collision with Mbemba.
The South Korea forward is now a major doubt to appear for his country at the World Cup in Qatar later this month, and his personal blow compounds Spurs’ attacking woes with Richarlison also ruled out due to a muscle injury and Dejan Kulusevski unlikely to be able to start having only returned to light training in the past day or two.
Crristian Romero has missed his side’s last two matches with a muscle strain and may not be risked with the World Cup beginning exactly two weeks after this fixture, with Eric Dier potentially filling in as a right-sided centre-half once again in order to allow left-footers Lenglet and Davies to complete Conte’s back three.
Liverpool, meanwhile, were boosted by the return of Ibrahima Konate to their backline against Napoli, and the France defender is likely to receive the nod ahead of Joe Gomez alongside van Dijk against Spurs.
Possible starting lineup:
| Tottenham | Man United |
|---|---|
| Lloris, Hugo | Alisson |
| Dier, Eric | Van Dijk, Virgil |
| Emerson | Alexander-Arnold, Trent |
| Davies, Ben | Gomez, Joe |
| Romero, Cristian | Robertson, Andy |
| Hojbjerg, Pierre | Fabinho |
| Bentancur, Rodrigo | Henderson, Jordan |
| Sessegnon, Ryan | Thiago |
| Kane, Harry | Salah, Mohamed |
| Heung-min, Son | Firmino, Roberto |
| Perisic, Ivan | Elliott, Harvey |
Probabilities
Tottenham = 41.5%
Draw = 21.0%
Liverpool = 37.6%
Prediction
Tottenham 1-1 Liverpool
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