Spurs trio to be rested on Sunday | OneFootball

This weekend, Spurs will partake in the deadest of dead rubbers, as they host Southampton on Sunday, in one of the non UK televised 14:00 BST slots. It really is one of those games that feel ike a serious chore. The atmosphere around the place has not been this bad since the last few games of Antonio Conte.

During their game in midweek, Southampton conceded a late equaliser at home to Crystal Palace – which denied them overtaking Derby County’s unwanted record of being the worst ever Premier League team, with 11 points. They would have gone up to 12, but they had to make do with being stuck on 10.

We are all thinking it, aren’t we? Be serious, who actually read that and did not think “Dr Tottenham” or something similar. That said, we did say this about the reverse fixture, where Spurs scored after 30 seconds and were 5-0 up at half time. Things do feel worse than then admittedly.

On Thursday evening, Ange’s side will host Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg of their Europa League quarter final. Everybody knows that game is infinitely more important than this game against Southampton on Sunday afternoon.

It’s a huge hypothetical, but every Spurs fan would accept the humiliation of losing to Southampton and allowing them to beat that points record, if it meant progressing against Frankfurt. As pathetic as it would be, the priorities. Again, very hypothetical – a team losing to Southampton wouldn’t beat the third best side in Germany.

Owing to the lack of importance of the game on Sunday, it has been reported by Dan Kilpatrick that Ange is set to rest Heung-Min Son, James Maddison and Micky van de Ven are set to be rested for the game.

Spurs trio set to be given rest for visit of Southampton on Sunday

You’d hope that is just three players he is aware of, rather than everyone – it would not be ideal to have Cristian Romero out there. A central defensive partnership of Ben Davies and Archie Gray would be fine. Yes, we have wanted Gray to play in midfield. This is an irrelevant game we are talking about here.

One thing that could, maybe, enthuse the fans on Sunday is a start for Mikey Moore. We know he won’t start against Frankfurt – why not give him a go against Southampton – it would be a great opportunity for him to grab his first goal for the club.