Journalist Rob Guest on Football. London has predicted the XI that Ange Postecoglou could put out in Tottenham’s clash against Aston Villa the coming Sunday.
Postecoglou will be without quite a few of his first-team regulars through injuries or suspensions. He will have to field a makeshift team as he looks to stop Tottenham’s slide with two consecutive losses coming into this one.
Cristian Romero is still serving his three-match suspension for his tackle on Enzo Fernandez against Chelsea (Football. London). Yves Bissouma is also unavailable after picking up his 5th yellow card of the season against Wolves.
Micky van de Ven and James Maddison are both set to be out for a significant period following the injuries they sustained against the Blues.
Football. London’s Alasdair Gold recently quashed fans’ hopes after the Dutchman’s positive Instagram post, stating that nothing has changed in terms of recovery time.
Guest, writing in his column for Football. London has predicted Spurs’ starting line-up for the Aston Villa clash. In goal, expectedly he named Guglielmo Vicario despite the Italian being down with a bout of flu and missing out on international duty.
Guest expects Pedro Porro, Eric Dier, Ben Davies and Destiny Udogie to be the back four. Udogie was left out of the national team as a precaution but could return to start against Unai Emery’s side.
In midfield, Guest expects Rodrigo Bentancur to be in line for his first start of the season. The Uruguayan midfielder has made a successful return from injury and has made cameo appearances off the bench.
Pape Matar Sarr and Giovani Lo Celso have been named the other two midfielders to accompany Bentancur.
There are no surprises in attack though, with Dejan Kulusevski taking the right wing, Brennan Johnson taking the left wing and captain Son Heung-min leading the line like he so successfully has, throughout the campaign.
We think Ange Postecoglou might decide to go with someone like Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in midfield over Giovani Lo Celso. That said, if we want to replace Maddison’s creativity at least to an extent, then there is no better option than Lo Celso.
We also need to be careful with Bentancur. The Uruguayan is returning from a long-term injury and we must not rush him back into action unless he is ready to start. It will also be interesting to keep an eye out on Vicario and Udogie as both of them have had fitness/illness issues.
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