Ahead of this weekend’s Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Tottenham’s home clash with Stoke.
Tottenham Hotspur vs Stoke City (Wembley Stadium)
Team news
Tottenham
Tottenham defender Davinson Sanchez is suspended for Saturday’s Premier League game at home to Stoke.
Sanchez is serving the first part of a three-match ban following his red card against Watford last weekend.
Davinson Sanchez will be suspended for Tottenham Hotspur’s clash with Stoke City
Toby Alderweireld and Victor Wanyama remain out with hamstring and knee injuries respectively.
Provisional squad: Lloris, Vorm, Gazzaniga, Rose, Davies, Walker-Peters, Vertonghen, Dier, Foyth, Trippier, Aurier, Winks, Amos, Sissoko, Dembele, Alli, Eriksen, Son, Lamela, Llorente, Sterling, Kane.
Stoke
Stoke will be without Bruno Martins Indi and Jese Rodriguez for Saturday’s Premier League trip to Wembley to face Tottenham.
Martins Indi could be sidelined for eight weeks with the groin injury he suffered in last weekend’s victory over Swansea while Jese has had to rush home to Gran Canaria to be with his seriously ill baby son.
Stoke city will be without injured defender Bruno Martins Indi at Wembley Stadium
With Martins Indi absent, boss Mark Hughes could decide to bring Geoff Cameron straight back in. The United States international is finally available again six weeks after suffering a concussion in training.
Provisional squad: Butland, Grant, Haugaard, Zouma, Wimmer, Shawcross, Cameron, Johnson, Pieters, Diouf, Edwards, Tymon, Fletcher, Allen, Adam, Afellay, Shaqiri, Choupo-Moting, Sobhi, Berahino, Crouch, Ngoy.
Key match stats (supplied by Opta)
Spurs have won each of their last three Premier League matches against Stoke all by a 4-0 scoreline.
Stoke have won one of their last seven away Premier League matches at Spurs (D3 L3), a 2-1 win in November 2014.
No side in the history of the top-flight of English football has won four consecutive matches against an opponent by four or more goals in each game – it has only happened twice in the history of the Football League, with Barnsley achieving it against Darlington between 1933 and 1938 and Birmingham doing so against Northwich Victoria in the 19th century.
Stoke have won four of their five visits to Wembley Stadium in all competitions, though they did lose their last game at the ground 1-0 against Manchester City in the 2011 FA Cup final.
Harry Kane netted a hat-trick as Tottenham beat Stoke 4-0 at White Hart Lane last season
There have been eight red cards in the 18 previous Premier League meetings between these sides, at a rate of one every 2.25 games – the most frequent such rate of all fixtures to have been played at least 15 times.
Coming in to this weekend, Tottenham Hotspur are closer to the bottom of the league (16 points) than they are the top of the Premier League (18 points).
Xherdan Shaqiri has been directly involved in nine goals in his last 11 league appearances (four goals, five assists) – his joint-best return in a Premier League season.
Harry Kane has scored 31 Premier League goals so far in 2017 – only three players have scored more in a single Premier League calendar year: Alan Shearer (36 in 1995), Robin van Persie (35 in 2011) and Thierry Henry (34 in 2004).
Harry Kane has had a hand in seven goals in his last three Premier League games against Stoke (six goals, one assist), with a hat-trick and an assist in this exact fixture last term.
Dele Alli has scored in all three of his Premier League games against Stoke, netting four goals in total.