Spurs and Coventry City have named their starting squads for their meeting at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the Premier League on Monday.
The hosts start at the bottom of the table but got their third point of the season with a 1-1 draw at Manchester United on October 10.
promoted Coventry lost their first four league games but have won two in a row, winning 1-0 at Nottingham Forest before beating Newcastle 4-1 at home a week ago.
spurs they can leapfrog City into 16th with victory, while the Sky Blues will move into 14th with a draw and move up to at least 11th if they win.
Tottenham have confirmed the starting line-up against Coventry City
Tottenham have made five changes since their draw at Old Trafford.
Dejan Kulusevski is on the bench and could feature for the first time since 11 May 2025 following a knee injury.
Pedro Porro (hamstring), Lucas Bergvall (knee), Mykhaylo Mudryk (ankle), Savio (muscle) and Wilson Odobert and Xavi Simons (both knee) are injured.
Rodrigo Bentancur serves the first game of a three-game ban for headbutting United defender Luke Shaw.
Tottenham: Antonin Kinsky, Archie Gray, Tosin Adarabioyo, Jan Paul van Hecke, James Maddison, Archie Gray, Sandro Tonali, Dominic Solanke, Mohammed Kudus, Omar Marmoush, Micky van de Ven
Substitutes: Martin Dubravka, Marcos Senesi, Ben Davies, Conor Gallagher, Mateus Fernandes, Dejan Kulusevski, Callum Olusesi, Luca Williams-Barnett, Mathys Tel
Full Coventry vs Spurs line-up
Coventry make one change from their win over Newcastle, bringing on Tatsuhiro Sakamoto for Ephron Mason-Clark.
Kaine Kesler-Hayden is on the bench with a hamstring problem, but Aurele Amenda (knee), Luke Woolfenden (knee), Josh Eccles (knee) and Haji Wright (muscle) are sidelined.
City of Coventry: Carl Rushworth, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Ethan Pinnock, Jay Dasilva, Caleb Yirenkyi, Matt Grimes, Jack Rudoni, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Brandon Thomas-Asante, Sidiki Cherif
Substitutes: Daniel Bentley, Ellis Simms, Ephron Mason-Clark, Stephen Mfuni, Taiwo Awoniyi, Frank Onyeka, Kaine Kesler-Hayden, Victor Torp, Gustavo Hamer
Where to watch Spurs vs Coventry: TV channel, live streaming online
Kick-off on Monday is at 20:00 BST (15:00 ET / 12:00 PT), with live UK coverage on Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Ultra.
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Tottenham vs Coventry Premier League stats, form
- Tottenham have won their last five games against Coventry in all competitions, most recently a 2-1 away win in the EFL Cup in September 2024 under Ange Postecoglou.
- They have three wins in their last 25 Premier League home games (D7 L15). Since their first game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April 2019, only Wolves at Molineux (57) and Southampton at St Mary’s (52) have more defeats at one stadium than Spurs at their current ground (50).
- Spurs are without a Premier League win this season (3D3D) and have scored just one goal. Only 1912/13 (top 12) and 2008/09 (top 8) have had a longer start to a league season without a win, while this is the second-lowest number in their first six league games behind the two set in 2006/07.
- Only three teams have had more touches in the opposition box in the Premier League this season than Spurs (182) and only two have completed more passes in the final third of the pitch (770).
- Roberto De Zerbi’s team have the lowest shot conversion rate (3.6%) and have exceeded their xG with 3.6 goals (3 goals from 6.6 xG)
- Coventry visit Tottenham for the first time since losing 3-0 in the FA Cup third round in 2012/13 and are winless in five games against Spurs (D2 D3) since a 2-1 victory on the final day of the 1996/97 Premier League.
- City were able to win back-to-back away games in the competition for the first time since August 2000, while they last kept consecutive clean sheets in March 1998.
- The Sky Blues are on their best winning run in the competition since a purple patch in January and February 1998 when they won five in a row under Gordon Strachan.
- In the history of the top flight, only three teams have lost the top four and won three in a row: Derby in 1899/00, Arsenal in 1923/24 and Aston Villa in 1997/98.
- Against Newcastle, Sidiki Cherif scored on his first Premier League start for Coventry. Cherif could now join the three City players who have never scored in their first two Premier League games: John Williams (August 1992), Mick Quinn (November 1992) and Dion Dublin (September 1994).
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