Tottenham Hotspur meet Crystal Palace at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in a London derby.
With Aston Villa not in action until Saturday evening, victory would see Tottenham move to within two points of Unai Emery’s fourth-placed Villains.
Palace meanwhile can stay 13th with a win.
Team News
Richarlison is ruled out for Tottenham after he suffered a knee injury during their defeat against Wolves a fortnight ago.
Destiny Udogie (knee) could return but Fraser Forster (foot), Pedro Porro (muscle), Manor Solomon (knee) and Ryan Sessegnon (knock) remain ruled out.
Palace could welcome Eberechi Eze back into contention following his recovery from a hamstring injury.
Will Hughes (knock) and Joachim Andersen (cramp) are also expected to be in contention.
Michael Olise, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (both hamstring), Marc Guehi (knee), Rob Holding (ankle) and Cheick Docoure (Achilles) remain absent.
When is Kick-Off?
Tottenham face Palace at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at 3pm GMT on Saturday 2 March, untelevised live in the UK.
Stat Attack
- Tottenham have lost one of their last five meetings against Crystal Palace (W4, L1).
- Palace have failed to win in their last 11 league visits to Tottenham (D2, L9).
- Spurs have kept clean sheets in nine of their last 10 league matches at home to Palace, except for a 4-1 win in March 2021.
- Tottenham have won two of four London derbies at home in the Premier League this season (W2, L2).
- Palace have failed to win any of their last nine London derbies in the Premier League (D4, L5).
Prediction
Having had two weeks off to reset following a sloppy defeat to Wolves, Tottenham need to be more clinical in their end product and cut out the scrappy defensive play which allowed Wolves to punish them on the counter-attack clinically.
Palace meanwhile were certainly made to work for their win over Burnley last weekend, where they often wasted chances until they found more composure in the second half which saw them cruise to the victory on Oliver Glasner’s debut as manager.
Glasner though is in for his first serious test as Palace manager because he will surely need to tweak his tactics if want any chance of winning this game, but I can see Spurs having too much once they hit their stride after their fortnight off.
Prediction: Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Crystal Palace
Result: Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Crystal Palace
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