Tottenham to play EPL home games at Wembley next season

Palace, with six wins in their previous eight matches, had matched Spurs until they lost defender Mamadou Sakho to injury.

“But injuries to Dann, Sakho and Tomkins leaves their defence looking vulnerable”.

The Clarets go to sellhurst park on the back of just one win in 11 games.

It was exactly the kind of pressure-packed situation that was Tottenham’s downfall last season when they allowed Leicester to wrap up the title after briefly threatening to overhaul them.

“The Selhurst atmosphere and in-form Wilfred Zaha may edge it for Palace”.

Spurs passed up what appeared a golden chance to beat Chelsea at Wembley last week, and I’m not sure if they’ll be able to get past an Arsenal team intent on denying them the win – only delaying the inevitable before St Totteringham is banished.

The 49-year-old is quoted by the club’s official website as saying: “First of all, I think you saw the pictures with Mamadou, it looked really terrible so it could have been almost everything”. But I really don’t think about which position Arsenal are in.

“It depends on the swelling and the state of the knee, whether the specialist says it needs to calm down a bit before we get a true reading but obviously it is not something we are going to rush”, he said when asked when Sakho will have his scan.

“I thought in the first half we took the game to Tottenham, which is not easy, and of course the lack of recovery time from Sunday to tonight told in the end”, he said.

“We had to be careful too because they have talent in attack”. The Belgian was taken off at half-time against Crystal Palace on Wednesday with an ankle problem.

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Indeed, only Middlesbrough endured a longer wait for a Premier League win in the capital than Burnley’s current run – they went 17 games without victory before beating Spurs 3-0 in September 1998.

Palace have won six of their last nine league matches (D1, L2).

“We’ve just had four points of the last five and now it’s not deemed good”.

Sean Dyche will not care if the season ends with Burnley failing to break their away hoodoo, provided they preserve their Premier League status in spite of it.

Burnley are aiming to avoid a third consecutive defeat.

They lie five points off the Champions League places in sixth place, but with a game in hand, and their cause was helped by Thursday’s 0-0 draw between Manchester City and Manchester United. They are unbeaten in three games but face a hard run after this. You can survive in the Premier League if you build a great infrastructure.