Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester City on Sunday after the two clubs progressed safely to the knockout stage of the Champions League in midweek, with both bosses managing significant injury lists.
Tottenham hot and cold
Spurs’ Jekyll and Hyde performances this season have left fans wondering why their European form can’t be replicated on the domestic front, where they’ve recorded just two wins in their last 14 league games.
Such inconsistency has piled pressure on head coach Thomas Frank, but perhaps the warning signs were there before the Lilywhites lured the Dane from west London to north last summer.
Frank, whose side sit 14th, has won just four of his last 22 home league matches. Curiously, he has the exact same record in his first 11 with Spurs – won two, lost six, drawn three – as in his last 11 with Brentford. Now, though, he has three times as many people berating him at games for poor results.
With a slew of injuries in attacking positions, it’s perhaps no surprise Spurs have relied on goals from elsewhere on the pitch. In fact, in Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero, they boast the two Premier League defenders with the most goals in all competitions this season.
