2026/2027 season

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Tottenham Hotspur
Head coach: Roberto De Zerbi · Non affiché par Sky Sports pour les deux premières journées. Structure relevée sur la feuille de match contre Newcastle le 29/08 : Kinský ; Gray, van Hecke, van de Ven, Robertson ; Bentancur, Tonali, Porro, Mateus Fernandes ; Tel, Marmoush.
Rank
20th
Pts
3
P
6
Form
🟠 Poor

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
1/10
Attack
5/10
Defence
2/10
Form
4/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Low

20th with 3 pts from 6 matches: 0 wins, 3 draws, 3 defeats.

3 goals scored, 9 conceded.

Protagonist in Vigo with record figures, the midfielder ex Tottenham is giving substance and more balance to the median

Corriere dello Sport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Manchester United dropped points against Tottenham and critics were quick to question their effort and application, using the team’s physical statistics to make points. Speaking on Sky Sports, Jamie Redknapp said: “There’s a pattern I don’t really like when I watch teams, and that’s when – and the stats don’t lie – the other team runs more than you.

The Guardian — Football · 16 Oct 2026

Tottenham loanee Mikey Moore says the success of Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham in the Bundesliga influenced his decision to join Cologne.

BBC Sport · 15 Oct 2026

Recordman of selection in blue (139 before the World Cup 2022) the goaltender of Tottenham and captain of the team of France Hugo Lloris has been a pillar of the Bleus since 2008. After 2010, 2014 and 2018, he played his 4th World Cup at 35.

RMC Sport · 15 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Dvs Manchester United FC (A) · 1-1
Lvs Aston Villa FC (H) · 2-3
Dvs Everton FC (H) · 0-0
Dvs Nottingham Forest FC (A) · 0-0
Lvs Newcastle United FC (H) · 0-2
DDDLLL
3 scored / 9 conceded over 6 matches played
Rest: 8 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
0W - 1D - 2L
Away form
0W - 2D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
0.6
Goals conceded per match
1.2
At home
2 scored · 5 conceded in 3 matches
Away
1 scored · 1 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
1 of 5
Both teams score
2 of 5
Clean sheets
2 of 5
Failed to score
3 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Tottenham Hotspur play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
Non affiché par Sky Sports pour les deux premières journées. Structure relevée sur la feuille de match contre Newcastle le 29/08 : Kinský ; Gray, van Hecke, van de Ven, Robertson ; Bentancur, Tonali, Porro, Mateus Fernandes ; Tel, Marmoush.
Philosophy
De Zerbi accepts that the project is under construction and puts the mental question before the tactical one: “You can't buy mentality in the transfer market.” He is asking for time to find “the connection, the balance between the players”.
Attacking strengths
A department that has completely broken down: 0 goals scored in 2 matchdays, the only Premier League team yet to score. At Brentford, no shot on target in the first half and 0.47 xG against 3.94 for the opposition. Against Newcastle, De Zerbi believes that “for 60-65 minutes we played better than Newcastle” but that the team did not convert.
Defensive solidity
5 goals conceded in 2 matches, no clean sheet: 3 conceded at Brentford (Lewis-Potter 12th, Janelt 33rd, Kayode 49th) and 2 against Newcastle (Elanga 62nd, Wissa 72nd). Jamie Redknapp directly blamed captain Micky van de Ven for Newcastle's opening goal. After the first goal conceded against Newcastle, the team “lost its defensive organisation” according to Sky Sports.
Pressing
Not documented by the sources consulted. The only available intensity indicator is the observed failure in the duels at Brentford: De Zerbi acknowledges that “we were not ready to compete in the duels” and captain on the day Archie Gray admitted “they dominated us physically all over the pitch, we lost too many duels”.
Transitions
Not reliably documented by the sources consulted; no transition data published for Tottenham over these two matchdays.
StrengthUnprecedented investment power (eight signings this summer) and the individual quality of the arrivals, De Zerbi himself speaking of “bomba” signings; Savio scored on his very first appearance, in the 11th minute of the 5-1 against Charlton in the Carabao Cup on 26/08; the club is still in the League Cup, with a third-round tie at Liverpool.
WeaknessA total absence of collective reference points — Jamie Redknapp describes “a team of strangers” —, complete attacking sterility (0 goals in 2 matches), mental fragility identified by the head coach himself, and a heavy injury list (two cruciate ligament ruptures, Xavi Simons and Wilson Odobert).

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
At rock bottom and statistically documented as such. Losing their first two matches without scoring is a Premier League first for Tottenham, and the club have not won any of the twenty-two matches in which they have conceded first since the middle of 2025, losing sixteen of them. The trip to the City Ground is no respite: Forest have won the last four league meetings between the two clubs. Roberto De Zerbi continues to name mentality as the root of the problem, with a deliberate phrase: “You do not buy mentality in the transfer market.” The arrivals of Mykhailo Mudryk and Tosin Adarabioyo, both registered, at least give him two new cards to play.
Coach / players / board relationship
No tension reported between De Zerbi and the board: he declared himself “very happy” with the transfer window, saying it “exceeded my expectations”. The dressing room, on the other hand, is fractured: De Zerbi publicly confirmed that three players — Richarlison, Kevin Danso and Pape Matar Sarr — have asked to leave.
Mood with the supporters
A deteriorated climate: the team was booed off the pitch after the 0-2 home defeat against Newcastle, and the club announcer's pre-match statement (“We're back, we're huge”) went viral for the wrong reasons after the defeat.
Pressure on the head coach
High and rising. Two defeats, no goals scored, bottom place, boos at home and an investment of £302m that makes Tottenham the third biggest spender in the league: the equation cannot hold for long. Sky Sports nonetheless mark the window 7 out of 10, Michael Bridge praising financial commitment of “10 out of 10” while judging that “the jury is still out” on the signings and that the club may have overpaid. Jamie Carragher believes the start to the season “could not have gone worse”, while Jamie Redknapp targets the output of the established players, including captain Micky van de Ven. The trip to Nottingham Forest, and then the League Cup at Anfield, form a high-risk sequence.
Club objectives
Not publicly set out by the club in the sources consulted. External reference point: Jamie Carragher predicts 6th place for Tottenham in 2026-27, while Gary Neville doubts that the squad will “come together” despite the spending (Sky Sports, 25/08/2026). Tottenham are not among the English clubs involved in the Champions League this season.
Recent internal tensions
The dressing room has been emptied of its malcontents, but the atmosphere remains charged. Kevin Danso has gone on loan to Sunderland, Pape Matar Sarr to Juventus, and Richarlison, who according to the head coach had “said too many times that he wanted to leave”, is reported close to a Turkish club after the Everton move fell through. The most exposed gamble is Mykhailo Mudryk, on loan from Chelsea with a purchase option and without a single competitive match since November 2024, his doping suspension having been lifted only in July 2025: Roberto De Zerbi, who coached him at Shakhtar, publicly takes responsibility for it. Externally, the criticism is now focused on the established players rather than the signings.
Absences
InjuredXavi Simons — Knee injury, return estimated in February 2027.
InjuredWilson Odobert — Cruciate ligament rupture sustained in February 2026; return hoped for around the end of the year.
InjuredDejan Kulusevski — Knee; back in training after fifteen months out but still several weeks from rejoining the group.
DoubtfulJames Maddison — Shoulder, an awkward landing after coming off against Brentford; a major doubt for the trip to Nottingham Forest.
DoubtfulSávio — Muscle fatigue that ruled him out against Newcastle; expected back for 5 September.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Tottenham Hotspur — Coventry City

At homeMonday 19 October at 21:00Matchday 7
It's tomorrow. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateTottenham Hotspur — Coventry City
32 %
1 · Tottenham Hotspur
29 %
X · draw
39 %
2 · Coventry City
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Tottenham Hotspur, 6 matches by Coventry City. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 189 goals scored over 130 team-matches played (20 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.45 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Tottenham Hotspur — attack3 in 6 matches0.340.67
    Tottenham Hotspur — defence9 in 6 matches1.031.02
    Coventry City — attack5 in 6 matches0.570.79
    Coventry City — defence11 in 6 matches1.261.13
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Tottenham Hotspur and 0.50 for Coventry City. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.42 goal scored on average by the host against 1.42 by the visitor, over the 52 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.00; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.44, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.00. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Tottenham Hotspur at home: 0.33 pts/match versus 0.50 overall over 3 matches → ×0.909
    Coventry City away: 1.00 pts/match versus 1.00 overall over 3 matches → ×1.000
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λTottenham Hotspur = 1.45 × 0.67 × 1.13 × 1.00 × 0.909 = 1.01
    λCoventry City = 1.45 × 0.79 × 1.02 × 1.000 = 1.16
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 31.4%, draw 29.3%, away win 39.3% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 13.4%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Antonín Kinský (31)
  • Martin Dúbravka (39)
  • Guglielmo Vicario (1)
  • Brandon Austin (40)
Defenders
  • Andy Robertson (3)
  • Kevin Danso (4)
  • Marcos Senesi (5)
  • Jan Paul van Hecke (6)
  • Destiny Udogie (13)
  • Archie Gray (14)
  • Pedro Porro (23)
  • Ben Davies (33)
  • Micky van de Ven (37)
  • James Rowswell (76)
Midfielders
  • C. Gallagher (8)
  • James Maddison (10)
  • Lucas Bergvall (15)
  • Sandro Tonali (16)
  • Mateus Fernandes (18)
  • Rodrigo Bentancur (30)
  • M. Moore (47)
  • L. Williams-Barnett (68)
  • Pape Matar Sarr
  • Dejan Kulusevski
Forwards
  • Mathys Tel (11)
  • Dominic Solanke (19)
  • Mohammed Kudus (20)
  • Omar Marmoush (22)
  • Richarlison
  • Savio
  • Xavi Simons
  • Wilson Odobert
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST. Compiled from the official Sky Sports team sheets for the first two matchdays (Brentford-Tottenham on 22/08, sheet 559445, and Tottenham-Newcastle on 29/08, sheet 559463), supplemented by the worldfootball.net 2026/2027 squad list (Austin, Rowswell), the official page tottenhamhotspur.com/teams/men (Vicario no. 1) and the premierinjuries.com injury table (Simons, Odobert, Kulusevski, Sarr, with no verified number). No complete official squad page could be opened (tottenhamhotspur.com/teams/mens/squad returns 401, transfermarkt.com is blocked). Unverified first names left as initials for C. Gallagher, M. Moore and L. Williams-Barnett. Unverified numbers for Richarlison, Savio, Simons, Odobert, Kulusevski and Sarr. Captaincy confirmed: Micky van de Ven wore the (c) against Newcastle, Archie Gray being explicitly described as “stand-in captain” at Brentford in his absence..

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Kulusevski after more than 500 days back at Tottenham: "He had a big smile."
Source: Voetbal International
rss18 Oct 2026
Dejan Kulusevski to finally return to Spurs matchday squad after more than 500 days
Source: The Independent — Football
rss18 Oct 2026
Chelsea v Tottenham: Women’s Super League – live
Source: The Guardian — Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Man Utd eye Spurs flop as transfer fee set amid Benjamin Sesko injury woes
Source: Mirror Football
rss10 Oct 2026
Tottenham saves point before United erased and worsens crisis of both clubs
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss16 Oct 2026
The Tottenham and faith in Roberto De Zerbi
Source: Mundo Deportivo
Club3 Sep 2026
Tottenham travel to the City Ground on Saturday 5 September at 15:00 to face Nottingham Forest, bottom of the table with no points and no goals scored in two matchdays.
Source: Football Web Pages
Result3 Sep 2026
Sports Mole underlines the scale of the failed start: losing their first two matches without scoring is a Premier League first for Tottenham. Another alarming statistic is that the club have not won a single one of the twenty-two matches in which they have conceded first since the middle of 2025, with sixteen defeats. Facing them, Forest are on four consecutive league wins against Spurs.
Source: Sports Mole
Injury3 Sep 2026
The attack is badly hit: Xavi Simons, with a knee injury, is not expected before February 2027, Wilson Odobert is out until the end of November and Dejan Kulusevski is unavailable with no return date.
Source: Squawka
Injury2 Sep 2026
Injury detail: James Maddison, who landed awkwardly after coming off against Brentford, is a major shoulder doubt; Sávio, absent against Newcastle with muscle fatigue, is expected back; Dejan Kulusevski has resumed training after fifteen months out but remains several weeks from the group; Wilson Odobert is recovering from a cruciate ligament rupture sustained in February 2026, with a return hoped for around the end of the year; Xavi Simons is not expected before February 2027. No suspensions.
Source: Sports Mole
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Mykhailo Mudryk is on loan from Chelsea for the season with a purchase option and will wear number 27. The Ukrainian has not played a competitive match since November 2024, a doping suspension having been lifted in July 2025. Roberto De Zerbi, who coached him at Shakhtar Donetsk, insists: “I know exactly what he can bring to our team,” praising his ability to “change a match with his pace and his one-v-one”. Tosin Adarabioyo arrived permanently for £12m (£10m plus £2m in bonuses), replacing Kevin Danso, who left for Sunderland.
Source: Sky Sports
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Sky Sports mark Tottenham's window 7 out of 10. Michael Bridge calls the financial commitment “10 out of 10”, but believes “the jury is still out” on the signings individually and that the club may have overpaid for some of them.
Source: Sky Sports
Institutional2 Sep 2026
With £302m invested, Tottenham are the third biggest spenders in the Premier League this summer, behind Manchester City and Chelsea, in a record market of £3.46bn.
Source: Sports Mole
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Tottenham signed defender Tosin Adarabioyo from Chelsea for around £10m on deadline day, while Pape Matar Sarr was loaned to Juventus and Kota Takai to Sint-Truiden.
Source: Sky Sports
Head coach30 Aug 2026
Roberto De Zerbi summed up his diagnosis in one phrase: “You do not buy mentality in the transfer market.” He rejects comparison with the club's failed seasons, saying he has “no doubt” that the situation is different. Jamie Carragher judges that the start to the season “could not have gone worse” and predicts the club will return to the market, while Jamie Redknapp argues for patience with the signings but criticises the output of established players, starting with captain Micky van de Ven.
Source: Sky Sports
Transfers30 Aug 2026
Tottenham and Everton were in advanced talks on two separate deals: Iliman Ndiaye to Tottenham for a fee under discussion of £60m, and Richarlison to Everton for around £35m, the Brazilian being in the final year of his contract and having asked to leave. De Zerbi confirmed that Richarlison, Kevin Danso and Pape Matar Sarr wished to leave the club.
Source: Sky Sports
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.