Here's the Tottenham starting line-up we reckon Igor Tudor could select to face Fulham in Sunday's Premier League match at Craven Cottage
Igor Tudor needs to pick a Tottenham team that can get points at Fulham in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.
Spurs are desperately in need of a positive performance and with teams around them losing on Saturday, if Tudor's men could just grab a point or three at Craven Cottage then they could begin moving away from the drop zone and the threat of relegation. However, this is a fixture that Tottenham have struggled in over the years.
Tudor has at least finally got a couple of players back out of the treatment room and on to the training pitches in Pedro Porro and Kevin Danso. He and the sports science staff must decide if one or both of the duo are ready yet to be thrown in from the start in an away derby at Fulham or to wait for the home game against Crystal Palace in midweek.
Dominic Solanke will return to the starting line-up at Craven Cottage and after Randal Kolo Muani's first Spurs display under Tudor with his first Premier League goal at the weekend, following their fruitful time together at Juventus, the Frenchman is likely to retain his place in the team.
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Tudor needs to get Joao Palhinha back into the midfield against his former club and, depending on Danso's fitness, that could mean switching to a back four.
The possible formations then are a 4-2-3-1, a 4-2-2-2, a 4-3-3 or a 4-4-2. The first two would allow for more midfielders while the latter two could require wider players such as Mathys Tel or full-backs like Souza or Djed Spence playing further up the pitch as a winger, or Kolo Muani.
Here's the team we reckon Tudor could pick to face Marco Silva's Fulham side:
(4-3-3): Vicario; Porro, Dragusin, Van de Ven, Spence; Gallagher, Palhinha, Xavi; Kolo Muani, Solanke, Tel.