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Pochettino favours Ndombele to Eriksen in Leicester clash

Mauricio Pochettino has made two big changes to his Tottenham Hotspur side ahead of the visit to Leicester City.

Following the 4-0 win over Crystal Palace, he has brought Tanguy Ndombele (£6.0m) in to replace Christian Eriksen (£8.8m) while Paulo Gazzaniga (£4.4m) deputises for Hugo Lloris (£5.5m) whose wife has just given birth.

The absence of Eriksen may concern some Fantasy managers still invested in the Spurs attack although he was quite poor against Olympiakos midweek.

Spurs’ backline of Serge Aurier (£4.9m), Toby Alderweireld (£5.5m), Jan Vertonghen (£5.3m) and Danny Rose (£5.5m) remains unchanged for the lunch-time kick-off against the Foxes, whilst the goal-scorers from the victory over Palace in Erik Lamela (£6.1m) and Heung-min Son (£9.6m) retain their starting berths. 

Son scored twice in the demolition of Roy Hodgson’s side, and Pochettino will be hoping for a similar level of impact from his South-Korean talisman at the King Power Stadium. 

For Leicester, Brendan Rodgers has made two changes to the side who narrowly lost out to Manchester United last weekend, with Ayoze Perez (£6.1m) and Harvey Barnes (£5.9m) returning to the starting XI at the expense of Hamza Choudhury (£4.5m) and Demarai Gray (£5.3m).

That tweak might help James Maddison (£7.1m) occupy a more central role after playing on the flanks recently.

After starting the 2019/20 campaign in fine form, the Foxes will be aiming to bounce back from defeat at Manchester United.

The likes of Jamie Vardy (£8.9m) with three goals so far this season, will look to exploit a Spurs defence who once again displayed their fragilities in blowing a two-goal lead against Olympiacos in the Champions League mid-week. 

Leicester XI: Schmeichel; Ricardo, Evans, Soyuncu, Chilwell; Ndidi; Perez, Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes; Vardy.

Spurs XI: Gazzaniga, Aurier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose, Winks, Sissoko, Ndombele, Lamela, Son, Kane.

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  1. pundit of punts
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Love you Son.

    Denying Jane and Aurier hauls.

    1. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Jane is playing well.

    2. Rolls-Royce
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Such an idiotic thing to say.

    3. CRO KLOPP
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Jane and Tarzan you mean

  2. L'Aeroplanino
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    is this a joke?

  3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    VAR is handled by clowns that's the problem

  4. lindeg
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    no goal get in

  5. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    VAR sucks. How can you possibly measure that offside.

    1. lindeg
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      so you are angry at the right decisions being made?

      1. Valar(Keith)
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Eh. Did that look right to you?

    2. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Correct decision, end of.

      1. Rolls-Royce
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Leicester equaliser. Ricardo

      2. The Son-dance Kid
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Debatable. You assume the frame they use to assess the offside is the correct frame to use. 1 frame earlier and it's not offside.
        VAR for marginal offside is ruining football.
        End of

    3. Eddie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Technology I think.

  6. Pranked
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Danced around the house after taking -4 for son and aurier to get it ruined by VAR

  7. fr3d
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Football was about to die but VAR has saved it

  8. Lev Yashin
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    VAR needed a VAR there. No way it could be seen.

    Joke of a decision.

    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Exactly. It's a guess.

      Always errs on side of defenders.

    2. lindeg
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      red line was ahead of blue line

      1. The Son-dance Kid
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Only if you look at that specific frame. One frame earlier and blue line ahead of the red. And chances are ball still touching the passers foot.

  9. Monya Meow Meow
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Aurier wasting his dance routine

  10. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Tears if Sterling benched. Please don’t Pep. Either a start and a haul, or nothing at all.

  11. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks Son, transferred out Kane for you 🙂

  12. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    3 minute bald fraud warning

  13. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    3 minutes till meltdown

  14. PrettyDick
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    wow.. that one was tough to take as an Aurier owner.. now watch him lose his CS as well..

    1. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      ... 😆

      1. PrettyDick
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        lol

    2. Pedersen
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      So true... 😀

  15. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Aurieeeerrr 🙁

    1. Francis Begbie
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Right that’s it. I’m going mental.

  16. the dom 1
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    VAR is crap. Aurier Goal was good imo

  17. Goat
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Finally VAR goes against Tottenham

  18. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Pep time

  19. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I love VAR!

  20. Cojones of Destiny
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Sonnot even in baps wtf?

  21. Tsparkes10
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Anyone else agree? Sterling had one exact same in first game of season. Even if its the slightest arm, its offside? Don't agree but atleast rule is being followed and its consistent

    1. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Yeh and it was dumb with Sterling as well. You cant tell when the ball leaves the foot.

      1. The Son-dance Kid
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        You're spot on. Exactly why these decisions are not 'correct'.

  22. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    What the hell.

  23. Pacer.
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Andy Townsend: this is the only thing I don't like about VAR, when it comes down to millimeters

    Andy Townsend there, who perhaps would like offsides to be measured by volume, or force

    1. The Overthinker
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      True though

    2. Warbling Wendy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He is the worlds biggest prat.

    3. BobbyDoesNotLook
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I really think that it should some minumum centimeters to make sense. Probably technically not possible to be that accurate though. Would like to emphasise good playing over millimeter accurate offside rule. Well at least these decisions are always technically correct compared to the penalty decisions which go south quite often because everyone has their own rules.

  24. dark91
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    So many Aurier owners around. I agree it is very hard to see this ones, but same happened with Sterling so good to see some fairness here

  25. Marvin Moon
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I don't think anyone wanted VAR so we could measure offsides to an atomic level. But that is all it's being used for.

    1. Peter Ouch
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      If in doubt then give the advantage to the attacker

    2. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Yeah, quite sad.

    3. The Son-dance Kid
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Precisely. No one would have seen this decision last year and said 'That's it, we need VAR to sort these decisions out!'.
      Pathetic use of VAR

  26. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    OMG ricardo

  27. Maddi Son
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Trossard, Dendonker, Kane, Haller and now Aurier. Anyone still waiting for one VAR check to go their way? 🙁

  28. Wilshere Knowledge
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    There aren't enough frames to determine when the balls leaves the foot, and the lines on the players are too chunky.

  29. CRO KLOPP
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Omg pereira

  30. Tsparkes10
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hahahaha. Aurier disallowed goal and cleansheet wiped. Rip

    1. Kun Tozser
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Makes me feel better about missing the deadline as he was my transfer in