{"id":665487,"date":"2026-02-22T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=665487"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:26:00","slug":"tottenham-team-news-predicted-lineup-vs-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/22\/tottenham-team-news-predicted-lineup-vs-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur Team News and Predicted Lineup vs Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest Tottenham Hotspur team news ahead of the North London Derby on Sunday at 4:30pm. Tottenham head into the match under the guidance of new interim head coach Igor Tudor<\/a>. After Frank\u2019s dismissal following a 2-1 defeat to Newcastle United, Tudor’s task is to keep Tottenham in the Premier League. The derby provides an early test of Tudor\u2019s tenure and an opportunity to generate momentum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arsenal arrive following a disappointing 2-2 draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers. A stoppage time equaliser saw the Gunners drop important points in their title charge. With Manchester City providing pressure, the importance of a victory for Mikel Arteta\u2019s team is clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tottenham Predicted Lineup and Team News for Arsenal Clash<\/b><\/h2>\n

How Tottenham Have Lined Up<\/b><\/h3>\n

Towards the end of Thomas Frank\u2019s tenure, he shifted to a 3-4-2-1. Igor Tudor has almost exclusively opted for a similar system<\/a> throughout his career. Tudor utilises wing-backs and an aggressive press designed to force turnovers high up the pitch. Considering Spurs\u2019 lack of natural wing-backs due to injury, January signing Souza could be in line for increased minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tudor will be keen to coach Radu Dragusin and Randal Kolo Muani again \u2013 the latter started regularly for him at Juventus last season. Kolo Muani and Xavi Simons are expected to operate behind Dominic Solanke if the striker is deemed fit. With 12 days between matches, Spurs should enter the derby physically refreshed, in contrast to an Arsenal side who played as recently as Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Injury Updates and Suspensions<\/b><\/h3>\n

Cristian Romero remains suspended, following his sending off against Manchester United. Wilson Odobert was the latest to join the injury list against Newcastle United after he ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are concerns around Solanke\u2019s availability, although both he and Richarlison participated in training this week. When asked whether any injured players would return for the derby in Friday\u2019s press conference<\/a>, interim head coach Igor Tudor said: \u201cProbably no. Solanke had some problems with his throat, but today, he made some training. All others, probably someone [will return] next week.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tudor\u2019s comments suggest Solanke is being monitored rather than ruled out, making him a likely starter if he responds well before Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin Danso, Destiny Udogie, Dejan Kulusevski, Pedro Porro, Ben Davies, Rodrigo Bentancur, Lucas Bergvall, James Maddison and Mohamed Kudus are all ruled out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tottenham Predicted Lineup\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

GK – Vicario<\/span><\/p>\n

CB – Palhinha<\/span><\/p>\n

CB – Dragusin<\/span><\/p>\n

CB – Van de Ven<\/span><\/p>\n

RWB – Gray<\/span><\/p>\n

LWB – Spence<\/span><\/p>\n

CM – Gallagher<\/span><\/p>\n

CM – Sarr<\/span><\/p>\n

RW – Kolo Muani<\/span><\/p>\n

LW – Simons<\/span><\/p>\n

ST – Solanke<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest Tottenham Hotspur team news ahead of the North London Derby on Sunday at 4:30pm. Tottenham head into the match under the guidance of new interim head coach Igor Tudor. After Frank\u2019s dismissal following a 2-1 defeat to Newcastle United, Tudor’s task is to keep Tottenham in the Premier League. The derby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5771,"featured_media":665498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<\/smartframe-embed>","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,3,1831,24],"tags":[9391],"class_list":["post-665487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","category-tottenham","tag-tottenham-hotspur-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665499,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665487\/revisions\/665499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}