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Spurs v Chelsea team news: Xavi + Guiu benched

1 November 2025 396 comments
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Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea is our next Premier League match of the day, a fixture that the Blues tend to perform well in.

In fact, penalty shootouts aside, Chelsea have avoided defeat in 16 of their last 17 meetings with the Lilywhites.

Kick-off in this latest contest is at 17:30 BST.

TEAM NEWS

Compared to last weekend’s 3-0 win over Everton, Thomas Frank has made two changes to his starting XI.

Xavi Simons and Brennan Johnson drop to the bench, with Pape Matar Sarr and Lucas Bergvall coming into a central-midfielder-heavy line-up.

Cristian Romero, Wilson Odobert and Destiny Ugodie return from injury but only as substitutes.

As for Chelsea, Enzo Maresca mostly reverts to his Gameweek 9 side after mass rotation in the EFL Cup in midweek.

There are two changes from the Sunderland game, with Wesley Fofana and Malo Gusto ousting Josh Acheampong and Marc Guiu.

LINE-UPS

Tottenham Hotspur XI: Vicario, Porro, Danso, Palhinha, Van de Ven, Spence, Bergvall, Sarr, Bentancur, Kudus, Kolo Muani.

Subs: Kinsky, Romero, Udogie, Simons, Odobert, Johnson, Tel, Scarlett, Richarlison.

Chelsea XI: Sanchez, James, Fofana, Chalobah, Cucurella, Gusto, Caicedo, Neto, Fernandez, Garnacho, Joao Pedro.

Subs: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Tosin, Hato, Lavia, Andrey Santos, Estevao, Gittens, Guiu.

LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

New to Fantasy Football Scout is the Live Gameweek page, which you can see on the side menu.

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DC) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:

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  1. Totalfootball
    • 9 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Any chance Haaland or semenyo miss out ?
    Have Caicedo 1st sub

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    1. The Philosopher
      • 5 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Surely Haaland outscores a poverty assist?

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      1. WVA
        • 9 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        Yeah just like last week

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  2. thegaffer82
    • 14 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    A catalogue of errors from the Spurs defense there. No wonder Thomas Frank was booting a water bottle.
    I’m still glad I sold JP! He’s still crap. He will still continue to blank when not handed a goal on a plate

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Yep. Sold him for Mateta, no regrets at all.

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  3. Gizzachance
    • 11 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Pedro to mateta was waste of transfer!
    Pedro still got time to get more to

    Trolled by Watkins Roger’s wirtz Pedro

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    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 13 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Pedro has trolled me for a season and a half now, along with Sarr

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      1. WVA
        • 9 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        Sarr is the biggest troll in the history of the game

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        1. tucaoneo
          • 7 Years
          5 months, 13 days ago

          I blame the league though. They should let him play Liverpool every week.

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      2. Gizzachance
        • 11 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        Same last season sarr Pedro Roger’s semenyo, troll you when there on your benches, or you sell ha

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      3. Hughes Your Daddy
        • 13 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        You didn't have Sarr during any of his 8 goals 7 assists last season?

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        1. Fifa las vegas
          • 13 Years
          5 months, 13 days ago

          One or two maybe, but mostly not actually! In and out at the worst possible moments most of the time!

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    2. thegaffer82
      • 14 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Not a waste at all. Mateta is a much better option than JP

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      1. Gizzachance
        • 11 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        Hopefully , Pedro got fixtures after this, I didn’t want go back down the Watkins wirtz routes etc!

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  4. Fifa las vegas
    • 13 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Nearly want JP back for Wolves now next week

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  5. The Philosopher
    • 5 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    ML rival kept JP and did Woltemade -> Mateta.

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    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 13 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      I was deliberating that but just got Woltemade last week, and did need some funds.

      Will have to make do with Welbeck. Not sure he’ll match them in the coming weeks though

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  6. Yes Ndidi
    • 6 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Absolute top quality trolling by JP there.

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    1. Ignasi M
      • 8 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      he could have scored two - annoying

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  7. WVA
    • 9 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Having the worst season of my life. My WC has ended it for me.

    Saka over Bruno
    Sarr of Minteh
    Enzo over Caicedo
    Pope
    Bowen

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    1. Ignasi M
      • 8 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Yeah, loads of goals are being scored from set pieces. I'm replacing saka with rice. Saka been poor all season, apart from champs league.

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      1. WVA
        • 9 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        Looking at fixtures I’ll probably go with Minteh over Rice

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  8. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Loath Pedro and Gyokeres. Had the teo of them for weeks with blanks every game.

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  9. Totalfootball
    • 9 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    I have no idea how to play this game .
    Joao pedro looked like an obvious 'sell ' , so i sold him .

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    1. WVA
      • 9 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      It’s all luck

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    2. Ignasi M
      • 8 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      everyone did

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  10. F4L
    • 11 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    am i being too harsh or do spurs just not really have 1 decent striker while having 4 options to play there?

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    1. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Solanke is good

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      1. Ignasi M
        • 8 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        injury prone like Isak

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      2. F4L
        • 11 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        fair, shame about his injury issues. think he was just run into the ground last season so performances maybe dropped off abit because of that. he started the season very strong iirc

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  11. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Pedro is still 45% owned. FO.

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  12. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    If this was an American football game, yellow flags would be thrown all over the place.

    But this ref here today seems quite laid back. Did he even bring his whistle? Cards are still at the poker table from last night. Crazy.

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  13. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Pedro another sitter

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  14. F4L
    • 11 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    pedro very close again

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  15. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    JP is warming up

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  16. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Go away JP

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  17. ChelseaGuy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 months, 13 days ago

    Joao Pedro 3 SOT in last 15mins after everyone selling him for going games without a SOT

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    1. thegaffer82
      • 14 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Feels like when I sold VDV last week after weeks on weeks of 0’s, 1’s and 2’s. Then boom 23 points out of absolutely nowhere 🙂

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    2. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      8 games without a shoot on target. Been shocking.

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    3. Voronins Pony Tail
      • 2 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Just proves as alway, this whole game is 90% luck, 10% judgement.

      Nobody’s crystal ball works.

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      1. ChelseaGuy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        Judgement gets you consistent Good ranks, but to get within the Top 1k, luck plays a huge role

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    4. NoOneCares
        5 months, 13 days ago

        He is bang average and a terrible pick.

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    5. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Pedro keepers redeemed!

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    6. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      VDV surely owns Chelsea assets

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    7. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      That’s a red card

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      1. F4L
        • 11 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        borderline, maybe height saves him but alot of force

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    8. GoonerGirl
      • 6 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Seriously J.Pedro? I've had you since the beginning and now when I remove you for being rubbish from my team, you go and score. Everytime lol.

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    9. Bada Bing
      • 9 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      VDV is having an absolute shocker, tried to gift another goal.

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    10. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Hand bags

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    11. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      1.6m managers sold Joao Pedro this week
      1.6m managers bought Mbeumo this week
      Classic FPL

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    12. Thanos
      • 4 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Damn! That’s a RC challenge. Lucky lucky boy Bentancur

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    13. F4L
      • 11 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      was it caicedo who put in a similar challenge in this fixture last season and got away with it?

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    14. ChelseaGuy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Spurs coming out on top with that Bentancur foul

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    15. Sting
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      reversion to the mean. quality players don’t blank all season.

      in a way, selling after a load of blanks in a row increases the probability of your sold asset firing

      most of my recent transfers have backfired. i was scoring better when rolling transfers

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      1. ChelseaGuy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        This!

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    16. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 13 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      Come on Kudus, give us a parting goal!

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      1. Ignasi M
        • 8 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        Yea. Spurs' recruitment has been trash again. Xavi Simons reminds me of Arsenal's Denilson. remember him?

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      2. Thanos
        • 4 Years
        5 months, 13 days ago

        He is useless

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        1. Ignasi M
          • 8 Years
          5 months, 13 days ago

          the sad thing though is that he's Spurs' best and most threatening player.

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    17. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      5 months, 13 days ago

      I mean.. Pedro and Gyokeres are nailed strikers in top PL sides. If you sold its your own fault

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