Tottenham will start a Premier League match in the bottom three for the first time since September 2011, when they travelled to Wolves in their third match of the 2011-12 season, having lost their first two fixtures.

Roberto De Zerbi has started Xavi Simons is on the bench for Tottenham at Sunderland. Conor Gallagher, Randal Kolo Muani and Lucas Bergvall all start at the Stadium of Light, with Antonin Kinsky in goal.

Spurs were initially expected to have a key player back for the run-in.

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Tottenham Hotspur have reaffirmed their agreement with Andy Robertson – with Roberto De Zerbi now sanctioning the move – after the Scotland international confirmed his Liverpool exit this summer, TEAMtalk can confirm.

What's Roberto de Zerbi going to do with Tottenham and how will he set them up? I've read about when he went in at Brighton and how Lewis Dunk said it took the Seagulls players a while to get up to speed and adapt to his demands.

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Mathys Tel was taken off with an injury issue during the 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest in Igor Tudor's final game in charge, but he has been pictured in training and looks to be the one player guaranteed to be returning to the squad at Sunderland.