The Canaries travel to London on the back of a rare win but they are still bottom of the table, six points from safety. Normally this would be a home banker, but we have been so poor for a month now, with the football on offer from Jose Mourinho reminiscent of last season's dire Manchester United. Ndombele is back in training and Mourinho has said he will be in the squad, while Lloris is expected to feature in February. The Christian Eriksen saga drags on, with the latest news that Inter have offered £12.8 million, which is under Levy's £15 million evaluation. Expect this one to linger until deadline day...
Off work today, and should be able to take this in. Hope weighs far heavier than confidence on the scales of positive thought these days … so here's to hoping the lads put in a performance today. … Grinding out a nil-nil draw feels more likely, though. COYS and all that.
unless, of course, they throw everyone behind the ball on the road, meaning we don't have to defend; and our attack makes them look like Helenio Herrera's Inter.
Here are the teams - look who's back! Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Aurier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Sessegnon, Winks, Lo Celso, Lucas Moura, Alli, Lamela, Son. Subs: Sanchez, Dier, Gazzaniga, Eriksen, Ndombele, Fernandes, Tanganga. Norwich City: Krul, Aarons, Zimmermann, Hanley, Byram, Tettey, McLean, Rupp, Duda, Cantwell, Pukki. Subs: Hernandez, Lewis, Stiepermann, Trybull, Drmic, Amadou, McGovern.
Byram hauls down Lamela, free kick to Spurs, should have been a yellow, Mourinho peeved, poor from Chris Kavanagh the referee.
Well we know Lloris is back, we try to play out from the back and nearly get caught out after a poor pass from the keeper.
Norwich not afraid to play out from the back, they keep giving the ball away, but we haven't taken advantage.
Spurs win the ball back in the Norwich defensive third, Son feeds Aurier, whose pinpoint cross is steered in by Dele.