Obviously Spurs will be confident no matter which team they select.
I can imagine both teams will rotate a lot.
Spurs just had Chelsea and then have Wolves away, and with 4th spot up for grabs I can't see them wanting to jeopardize that with a full strength XI against us.
So the talk of how to stop Kane, well, I think he will be a second half sub if needed. But Son, perhaps surprisingly for an outsider looking in, didn't start on Sunday so you'd think he would this time and he has scored against us before. Might see Moura as well. They seem to have a bunch of similarly skilled defenders they can rotate around though are short in the middle of the park so it will be interesting again if they are prepared to go with inexperience here. Maybe Sarr starts and Hjolberg gets rested? In goal you wonder if they would risk Forster and give a rare start to a young keeper.
For us, were also hard to predict for similar reasons.
Davies would be a cert to start. We've been fair to him giving him the cup games.
Back three minus Egan and with Anel suspended for the league will be Anel + two from Clark, Robinson, Basham, depending on the illness suffered by the former. He would be the ideal Egan deputy.
Wingback will be an equal toss up. Bogle, we might fancy as a weapon against them and that may indicate we give more time to Baldock and he could play against Blackburn. On the left, Osborn did well against Sarr as Lowe struggled. Toss of a coin stuff again.
We don't seem to like to rest Norwood as perhaps the pattern of play gets interrupted so much without him.
But alongside him could be anyone's guess. You could pick McAtee, Doyle, Berge, Coulibaly and Fleck all in a hat and you'll probably be as accurate guessing!
You'd think Jebbison will get a start and perhaps McBurnie a rest. Then it is a question if we would go 3-4-1-2 or 3-5-2 or if we want to unleash Ndiaye against Spurs and play more of a 3-5-1-1 or 3-4-3.
Hecky usually rotates about half the outfield in these games so let's see what he comes up with.
A difficult game to predict given the obvious question marks over both teams' starting line ups.
FWIW I think we'll probably go with something like this:
Davies
Anel Clark Robinson
Bogle Berge Norwood McAtee Lowe
Ndiaye Jebbison
Fleck, McBurnie, Egan, Foderingham and possibly Baldock/Osborn and Doyle considered for the weekend. Billy probably the first sub in each game and Coulibaly to get some minutes in the Cup.
We don't want to be embarrassed and the cup line ups are often stronger than we'd expect.
i dont know how that ranks to other non top PL 6 sides but im that would be an incredible achievement for a club like us. as in comparison the dark side havent made a FA Cup quarter final since 96/97, when David Hopkin was big. for the same achievement of 8 FA/League cup Quarter finals they have to go back to 1987
