Chelsea vs Tottenham LIVE: Premier League team news, line-ups and more as Richarlison starts for Spurs

Tottenham had been additionally affected negatively by VAR of their final recreation, having a penalty not given by Michael Oliver as Bukayo Saka went up the opposite finish and scored Arsenal’s second in a 3-2 win for Mikel Arteta’s aspect.

That was their first recreation in two weeks, and Postecoglou was most likely relieved with the mini-break after his aspect had been dismantled by Newcastle 4-0. Neither aspect is in nice kind and have proven they’re additionally shaky in defence which suggests something may occur.

Regardless of the beautiful formidable file residence file in opposition to Spurs, Chelsea’s kind going into this recreation is way from convincing and may give Spurs followers hope they will get one other historic win.

They needed to produce a extremely sturdy second-half efficiency to come back again in opposition to Aston Villa, and had been then fairly unlucky to get their last-minute winner taken away from them by VAR.

However there was no sympathy for the aspect of their earlier recreation as they bought battered 5-0 by Arsenal and bought knocked out of the FA Cup by Manchester Metropolis within the semi-final the weekend earlier than. There isn’t a higher method to get the followers excited once more than a derby win, and the Chelsea followers will likely be dying for a consequence in opposition to Spurs.

Stamford Bridge has not been a cheerful searching floor for Tottenham to say the least. They’ve solely received as soon as of their final 33 makes an attempt, though the supervisor to ship that win was Pochettino. It was a 3-1 victory in 2018, with Christian Eriksen and a Dele Alli brace overturning Alvaro Morata’s first-half strike, the one two gamers nonetheless contracted at both membership that performed within the recreation are Son and Davies.

Chelsea: Petrovic; Gilchrist, Chalobah, Badiashile, Cucurella; Caicedo, Gallagher; Palmer, Madueke, Mudryk; Jackson

Tottenham: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Emerson Royal; Bissouma, Sarr; Kulusevski, Johnson, Son; Richarlison

The Argentine bought despatched off in Tottenham’s 4-1 defeat to the Blues, Postecoglou hasn’t had an issue with Romero’s angle in any respect.

He stated: “On reflection, whenever you have a look at the problem he bought despatched off for, I’ve seen half a dozen since, so he could also be paid the value for being who he’s.

“I haven’t had a problem together with his self-discipline all 12 months. That recreation we began nicely, we had been flying. I haven’t had an issue. If traditionally it was totally different, it wasn’t beneath my watch. He’s been improbable this 12 months.”

“Many of the boys don’t like to coach in opposition to him. He’s an actual competitor and I like that about him. Whether or not it’s coaching or a recreation, what you see is what you get with Romero.”

At 3-0 down in opposition to Arsenal, it seemed all doom and gloom till Romero determined to attempt to take issues into his personal arms to single-handly drag Spurs again into the sport.

He scored to make it 3-1 and, regardless of Heung-min Son’s penalty, Spurs fell to defeat, however Postecoglou couldn’t have been happier together with his centre-back’s initiative.

The Australian coach stated: “He’s a World Cup winner and I’ve simply bought to get a few of what’s in him into among the others.”

Pochettino was not the one particular person eagerly ready to face their former aspect, as Timo Werner was anticipated to make his return to Stamford Bridge. That greeting between him and the Chelsea followers was snatched away after he picked up season-ending accidents, and with Spurs but to announce if they may signal the German completely he may have already performed his remaining recreation for the membership.

He wasn’t the one casualty of their north London derby defeat with Ben Davies additionally dominated out for the remainder of the marketing campaign, and it has come at a extremely dangerous time for Tottenham as their Champions League push will get more durable and more durable.

Ange Postecoglou’s workforce produced a stirring second-half rally and but with their faint top-four prospects almost over, Kulusevski admitted they have to develop into extra constant.

Time is operating out for England gamers, similar to Tottenham’s James Maddison and Chelsea’s Conor Gallagher, to impress supervisor Gareth Southgate and win a spot in his squad for Euro 2024.

England will play Slovenia, Denmark and Serbia in Group C once they start their quest to win the event in Germany this summer time.

Southgate’s aspect topped their qualifying group with out defeat and are one of many favourites to carry the trophy in Germany on 14 July, given their latest file in main tournaments and the excellent type of their attacking gamers this season together with Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka and Phil Foden.