Tottenham make the trip to Ipswich on Saturday afternoon hoping to make it three Premier League wins in a row and Ange Postecoglou finally has some selection decisions to make.

Spurs' FA Cup and Carabao Cup exits have been sandwiched by Premier League victories against Brentford and Manchester United and next up is an afternoon at Portman Road. Kieran McKenna's side sit 18th in the table with just three wins to their name but have given teams problems at times, including a draw last time out at Aston Villa and they beat Tottenham on their own turf earlier in the season.

Postecoglou had five players back in action following injury against United and with other returning stars on the horizon the Australian has some selection decisions to make ahead of the game against the Tractor Boys, which is followed up quickly by the visit of champions Manchester City to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Wednesday night.

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Here are five decisions that Postecoglou has to make with both of those fixtures in mind:

The Djed Spence call

Djed Spence is the toast of Tottenham right now. The 24-year-old has been superb in the left-back role, winning back-to-back man of the match awards in the Premier League and there has already been talk of whether he might start catching the eye of England boss Thomas Tuchel.

Postecoglou will have to decide the best way of getting the maximum out of the full-back across these two matches. That could involve playing him in both games if the Australian feels that Spence can handle both.

The alternative is deciding that the full-back has played a lot of football - he's started every Premier League game when fit - after a long period of not playing many matches or even starting a game for Spurs. His body might be fresher for that with the absence of Europa League matches as well or it might suddenly have been loaded up with game time that it wasn't prepared for.

Postecoglou might decide that it's a good opportunity to bring Destiny Udogie back in with Pedro Porro on the other flank and hand Spence a recharge to allow him to go at full throttle against City in midweek.

Seeing Spence on the bench would likely cause uproar among the fanbase following his consistently excellent displays but Postecoglou will have to manage his gradually growing squad at some point.

Pedro Porro rest

There's another option and that's to hand Pedro Porro a much-needed rest as the Spaniard has played more minutes than anyone else in the Tottenham squad this season with 3,040 of them to his name across all competitions.

That would mean Spence potentially playing in his more natural right-back role with Udogie on the left of the defence for the clash against Ipswich.

The other alternative for Postecoglou is to rest both Porro and Spence to keep them fresh for the City game and bring Archie Gray in at right-back with Udogie on the left-hand side in order to have two energised sets of full-backs for each game, a rarity in the world of Tottenham Hotspur in recent months.

Archie Gray in midfield

Everyone's waiting to see Archie Gray get his chance in the midfield. The 18-year-old has put in remarkable shifts as a makeshift centre-back over recent months, showing maturity far beyond his years to help out Tottenham in what people might forget is his first season in the Premier League.

The teenager has played at centre-back, right-back and left-back this season but hasn't really had the opportunity to show just how good he is in the centre of the pitch, having starred there as a 17-year-old for Leeds last season at times in the Championship and against the likes of Chelsea in the FA Cup.

With Postecoglou's other midfield battlers putting in inconsistent displays, Gray has more than earned the chance to lay his claim to start in his favoured role.

Midfield creativity

The opportunities for Postecoglou to utilise some playmakers in deeper roles to bolster the creativity against sides that sit back have not exactly been there in recent weeks with a lack of players in the midfield but also in the attack, which has led to Dejan Kulusevski having to revert to being a right winger.

Now Postecoglou has James Maddison back in action as well as attacking bodies returning to the wings, which will give him the opportunity to use a pairing of both Maddison and Kulusevski either side of a more defensively-minded midfielder if he wants on Saturday or he could decide to use one or the other and rest the other for the game against City.

Kulusevski has played 2,940 minutes this season across all competitions and with Porro, the duo have played far more than anyone else so a prolonged rest might not be the worst thing.

Attacking decisions

It might be too soon for Wilson Odobert to start matches as Spurs are going to take it cautiously with the 20-year-old after his long time out and hamstring surgery. However, Brennan Johnson, with another week of training under his belt, could come into contention to start against Ipswich.

The Wales international's return could free up Kulusevski to go back into a deeper role or it could simply allow the Swede to have a rest of sorts.

There's also 17-year-old Mikey Moore, while Timo Werner is closing in on his return to the team as well, so for once Postecoglou has some other options alongside Kulusevski, Mathys Tel and Son Heung-min at his disposal.

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