Thomas Frank continues to shuffle his pack as Tottenham’s matches keep coming at pace with Saturday’s Premier League game at Leeds United.
Spurs enter the Saturday lunch-time kick-off after returning from Norway and a fortunate scrambled draw at Bodo/Glimt in the Champions League on Tuesday night. Tottenham remain unbeaten since the last international break but Frank is well aware of the pre-international break curse that has affected the north London club in recent years with defeats in their past seven matches in a row before the players have gone off to represent their countries.
The Tottenham boss has captain Cristian Romero back in action after his contact injury in the draw with Wolves last weekend and Xavi Simons, Destiny Udogie, Joao Palhinha and Mohammed Kudus are all likely to come back into the starting line-up after coming off the bench in Bodo.
Frank will also have to make a decision on Richarlison because the Brazilian has had to play a lot of football despite his previous injury issues over recent seasons. Earlier this year Spurs had injury issues after playing on the artificial turf at Tamworth in the FA Cup and it could be that now is the time to give Richarlison a rest and not risk injuring him. That would mean Mathys Tel would come in up top for the trip to what will be a noisy Elland Road this weekend.
Here’s the team that we reckon Frank could select to face Leeds:
(4-3-3) Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bentancur, Palhinha, Xavi; Kudus, Tel, Odobert.
