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Tottenham predicted lineup vs Bournemouth - Premier League

By Grey Whitebloom

Antonio Conte lost his last meeting with Bournemouth but won the previous four
Antonio Conte lost his last meeting with Bournemouth but won the previous four / Justin Setterfield/GettyImages
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Tottenham Hotspur travel to the south coast to face Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.

Antonio Conte has lost just one of his last 37 top-flight matches as a manager against a promoted team (W29 D7) in a sequence stretching across his time at Juventus, Chelsea, Inter and Spurs.

Here's the Tottenham XI Conte may deploy to avoid a rare defeat against opposition that spent the previous campaign in the second tier.

Tottenham predicted lineup vs Bournemouth (3-4-3)

Harry Kane
Harry Kane scored a hat-trick on his first appearance against Bournemouth back in 2015 / Marc Atkins/GettyImages

GK: Hugo Lloris - Tottenham's skipper has kept six clean sheets across his last eight appearances against Bournemouth.

CB: Cristian Romero - The aggressive Argentine racked up 45 yellow cards across his first four years of European football but has only been booked once this season.

CB: Eric Dier - Ted Croker, Dier's grandfather, was Secretary of the Football Association for a decade and a half in the '70s and '80s.

CB: Clement Lenglet - The Barcelona loanee admitted that it's "too early" to speak about a potential stay at Spurs beyond the current campaign but his immediate future may reside in Tottenham's XI.

RWB: Emerson Royal - In his last Premier League appearance away from home, Emerson earned his first red card since he was dismissed and scored an own goal against Real Madrid in September 2020.

CM: Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg - The Dane missed his third Premier League match in three years last weekend. An impressively miserly tally he isn't expected to add to.

CM: Rodrigo Bentancur - In his last nine games for Spurs, Bentancur has scored twice. As many as he could muster across his previous 173 club appearances.

LWB: Ryan Sessegnon - After undergoing an individual pre-preseason training camp in Portugal last summer to aid "injury prevention", Sessegnon has been available for every match so far this term.

RW: Lucas Moura - The former Paris Saint-Germain forward made his first start of the season in midweek and may be forced into a quickfire second if Conte wants to line up in a 3-4-3.

ST: Harry Kane - It took Kane 25 appearances to score ten Premier League goals last season. This term, he has hit double digits after just 12 games.

LW: Son Heung-min - On his last start at Bournemouth's Vitality Stadium, Son was sent off before half-time.

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