Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Bournemouth: Spurs wake up to save points

To add (re-) damage to insult to Dominic Solanke of Stop Time, just 20 minutes after coming from the bench for his first action since January 15 (knee injury). Spurs’ $ 83 million striker (signed from Bournemouth in the summer) took a knee in the back as he went up and contested a high ball in the box, but Postecoglou indicated it was not “something too bad … a bank” after the game. The timing still couldn’t be worse with Spurs’ attacks that generate almost nothing in three of their last four halves of football. Centerbacks Micky Van De Friend and Cristian Romero were unused replacements on the bench on Thursday, and their experience and tranquility on the ball will be badly necessary against Bournemouth after Kevin Danso and Archie Gray were unable to tackle Alkmaar’s high press – exactly what the cherries are known for.

After walking 11 games undefeated from the end of November to January (7W-4D-0L), Bournemouth has lost three of his last four games in PL, and Cherries is now in danger of falling away from the Champions League Chase (7th place, three points behind 5th place Chelsea). After an average of 2.3 goals per Fight under their purple patch (joint-most point, 25, in PL during these 11 games), Andoni Iraola’s side has scored only four times in four games ago, with three coming in the same game against Southampton in the end. Evanilson’s absence (broken foot) was not felt right away, but eventually dried up the goals and the Brazilian was missed. Unfortunately, the 25-year-old (and scored) started last weekend’s FA Cup victory over Wolves and is expected to do its first PL performance since January 4th.

Tottenham Hotspur Team News

Out: Richarlison (lower leg), Radu Dragusin (torn ACL – off the season), Dejan Kulusevski (Foot) | Doubtful: Dominic Solanke (Back), Ben Davies (not revealed)

Bournemouth Team News

Out: Julian Araujo (thigh), Illia Zabarnyi (Suspension), Enes Unal (Knee), Marcos Senesi (Thigh), Adam Smith (Knock) | DECKNITY: Ryan Christie (groin)

Tottenham Hotspur vs Bournemouth Forecast

Apart from playing at home where they have lost more games (7) than they have won (5) this season, what benefit has spurs here? Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Bournemouth.