Tottenham will begin life after Jose Mourinho this evening when they host Southampton in the Premier League.
Just days before their Carabao Cup final clash against Manchester City, Spurs made the decision to cut ties with Mourinho after 17 months in charge.
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The club has since been embroiled in the European Super League furore and have pulled out of the controversial breakaway competition following a whirlwind 72 hours.
Ryan Mason will be in interim control for tonight’s game and will be eager to put a difficult week behind the club.
Tottenham remain five points off Chelsea in fourth and need to win to keep their – now all-important again – top-four hopes alive.
Southampton, who are seemingly safe of the drop zone, were hammed 5-2 by Spurs in September with Heung-min Son scoring four times.
Tottenham v Southampton: How to listen
This match will get under way at 6pm on Wednesday, April 21.
Full coverage from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will be exclusively live on talkSPORT, with our pre-match build-up starting at 5:30pm.
Adrian Durham and Hugh Woozencroft will be your hosts and commentary will come from Sam Matterface and Alvin Martin.
To tune in, click the radio player below or HERE for the live stream.
Here are the other ways to listen…
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Radio – talkSPORT is available across the United Kingdom via DAB digital radio and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
TV – Listen to talkSPORT through your TV on the following channels: Sky: Channel 0108 Virgin Media: Channel 927 Freeview: Channel 723 Freesat: Channel 731
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Tottenham v Southampton: Confirmed teams
Tottenham XI: Lloris, Aurier, Alderweireld, Dier, Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Ndombele, Lo Celso, Bale, Son, Moura.
Substitutes: Hart, Sanchez, Winks, Lamela, Sissoko, Alli, Bergwijn, Tanganga, Vinicius.
Southampton XI: McCarthy, Walker-Peters, Vestergaard, Bednarek, Salisu, Ward-Prowse, Tella, Armstrong, Walcott, Ings, Adams.
Substitutes: Forster, Stephens, Redmond, Djenepo, Minamino, Diallo, N’Lundulu, Ferry, Jankewitz.
Tottenham v Southampton: What has been said?
Tottenham’s interim boss Ryan Mason wants to reconnect disenchanted fans with their side following the sacking of Jose Mourinho.
“I think my job is to prepare a team to win a game of football,” he said. “I know what it is like having the fans with you. I have felt it as a player – that energy is just incredible, it’s so powerful.
“Unfortunately, at the moment we don’t have any of them in the stadium, but I want a Tottenham team to make our fans proud so they enjoy watching us.
“Football for a lot of people is everything they have in life. To watch their team play, I want them to be proud and I want them to be invested, and I want the players to feel that energy as well.
“Obviously they are not in the stadium now, but when they do come back in, this football club needs to feel that energy. That’s how we work; that’s who we are.”
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Tottenham v Southampton: Match stats and facts
- Tottenham have won eight of their last nine Premier League home games against Southampton, with the only exception a 1-2 loss at White Hart Lane in May 2016.
- Southampton have scored in each of their last 10 Premier League meetings with Spurs. However, Saints have only kept one clean sheet themselves in that run and have only won three of the 10 games (D1 L6).
- Tottenham haven’t lost a home Premier League game on a Wednesday since a 0-1 loss to Leicester in January 2016, winning 10 of their 11 such matches since then (D1), while scoring 25 goals and conceding just four.
- Southampton have picked up just 10 points from 15 Premier League games in 2021 (W3 D1 L11), fewer than any other side since the turn of the year.
- Southampton have drawn each of their last three Premier League away games against London sides – only once previously have the Saints drawn four consecutive trips to the capital in the top-flight (between August 1979 – August 1980).
- José Mourinho has lost nine of his 41 home games in charge of Tottenham Hotspur in all competitions. Across his two spells with Chelsea he lost nine of 156 home games, but has never suffered 10 home defeats at any of his previous clubs.
- Son Heung-min scored four goals in Tottenham’s 5-2 win against Southampton in the reverse fixture, with all four being assisted by Harry Kane. It’s the only occasion in Premier League history of a player scoring four goals in a match with all of them assisted by the same player.
- Tottenham have scored four Premier League hat-tricks against Southampton, more than they have vs any other side. These were scored by Steffen Iversen (March 2000), Jermain Defoe (December 2004), Harry Kane (December 2017) and Son Heung-min (September 2020).
- Danny Ings has been involved in six goals in his five games against Spurs for Southampton in all competitions (5 goals, 1 assist), accounting for 86% of the total goals Saints have scored in these games (6/7).
- Spurs’ Harry Kane has been involved in 16 goals in 12 Premier League games against Southampton (10 goals, 6 assists), more than he has vs any other opponent in the competition. He’s one of just five players to have a hat-trick of goals and a hat-trick of assists against the same opponent in Premier League games, alongside Dennis Bergkamp against Leicester, Didier Drogba against Wigan, Teddy Sheringham against Leeds and Raheem Sterling against West Ham.
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