Here's the Tottenham team that Thomas Frank has selected to his old side Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon
Thomas Frank has named his Tottenham team to face his former employers Brentford on Saturday afternoon in the Premier League.
Spurs stopping their losing run with Cristian Romero's 94th-minute overhead kick snatching a 2-2 draw at Newcastle on Tuesday night. Now Frank must get the north London side winning again at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to start to turn around that woeful run of just three wins in 21 Premier League matches, stretching back to last year.
The draw at St James' Park was the fourth in a row in which Tottenham have failed to register a shot on target in the first half. Xavi Simons did not start any of those four matches and Tottenham have not won a single one of the nine matches the £51million Dutchman has been named on the bench instead of the starting line-up.
Finally the 22-year-old midfielder is back in the line-up and will be hoping to improve his run of Spurs winning six of his nine starts. He starts with Rodrigo Bentancur and Archie Gray in the midfield.
Micky van de Ven and Joao Palhinha were given a rest on Tuesday night but only Dutchman comes back in. Djed Spence starts and Destiny Udogie did appear to be limping late in the midweek game even if Frank told football.london after the encounter that he thought the left-back was fine. The Italian is not in Saturday's matchday squad.
Richarlison and Randal Kolo Muani both start up front with Mohammed Kudus as Frank makes five changes to his line-up.
Here's the team Frank has selected: