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Only two Tottenham players would get into the Chelsea XI - Stan Collymore
HUGO LLORIS and Jan Vertonghen are the only two Tottenham players that would get into the current Chelsea XI.
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Those are the thoughts of former Liverpool star-turned-pundit Stan Collymore.
Tottenham welcome Chelsea to White Hart Lane this evening (8pm).
Mauricio Pochettino will be keen to avenge his side’s 2-1 defeat to the Blues when they visited Stamford Bridge in November.
Jan Vertonghen and Hugo Lloris have been rocks for Tottenham this term
Antonio Conte is searching for his 14th straight Premier League win
And that’s not good enough if they want to be seen as genuine challengers
After two successive 4-1 wins, Spurs are in good form going into tonight's showdown.
Dele Alli’s performances have improved markedly, while Harry Kane continues to be a potent threat up front.
But Collymore thinks only Lloris and either Vertonghen or Alderweireld would make the cut for the west London outfit.
“Man for man, only two of their players — Hugo Lloris ahead of Thibaut Courtois and Toby Alderweireld/Jan Vertonghen over Gary Cahill, which shouldn’t be seen as a slight on the Blues' England defender — would get into the Chelsea team,” Collymore wrote in his column for the Daily Mirror.
Stan Collymore thinks only two Tottenham players would get into the Chelsea XI
“And that’s not good enough if they want to be seen as genuine challengers.
“That said, Spurs will be more than relishing the leaders' visit and, although it will be difficult, Mauricio Pochettino has very good full-backs who like to bomb forward and they could outdo even Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso.”
Chelsea could extend their winning sequence in the Premier League to 14 matches.
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