Tottenham confirmed team vs Tamworth - Mikey Moore returns with Timo Werner up front
Ange Postecoglou has named his Tottenham Hotspur side to take on National League side Tamworth in the FA Cup third round on Sunday.
Spurs continue to face a match every three days while deals with unavailable players running into double figures each week and the fixtures do not let up in the weeks ahead. The third round tie against the team from Staffordshire will be played on Tamworth's artificial 3G pitch and Postecoglou will have take that into account with players who might be at risk with injuries on the hard surface..
The Spurs boss has rested Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski with places on the bench, but Radu Dragusin and Archie Gray continue to play every game as centre-backs. Mikey Moore returns to the action following his recovery from a virus to make his FA Cup debut.
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James Maddison and Pape Matar Sarr are back after missing the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg win against Liverpool through suspension, but Rodrigo Bentancur will be out for a couple of weeks with concussion protocols after banging his head early on in that match.
Timo Werner and Sergio Reguilon have been handed rare starts and Postecoglou had already said that new goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky would start to increase his sharpness after so long without a match as the Czech League shut down in mid-December.
Here is the Tottenham team Postecoglou has selected: Kinsky, Porro, Dragusin, Gray, Reguilon, Sarr, Bissouma, Maddison (c), Johnson, Werner, Moore. Subs: Austin, Spence, Dorrington, Bergvall, Olusesi, Kulusevski, Son, Solanke, Lankshear.
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