Tottenham confirmed team vs Southampton - Johnson and Davies start, Van de Ven and Richarlison sub

Ange Postecoglou has made three changes to his Tottenham team for Sunday's Premier League clash against Southampton. It is a vitally important game for as they look to bounce back from a 1-0 defeat at Chelsea and also try build some momentum going into their Europa League quarter-final tie against Eintracht Frankfurt next week.

The north London club head into the Southampton game 16th in the Premier League table after both Everton and West Ham picked up a point on Saturday afternoon. As a result of Wolves' late win at Ipswich Town, Spurs are now only two points ahead of Vitor Pereira's side in 17th prior to their game against the West Midlands club at Molineux next Sunday.

, Postecoglou, as expected, has made changes to his Tottenham team for this afternoon's game. Destiny Udogie, Micky van de Ven and Wilson Odobert have dropped out of the team from the Chelsea defeat, with Pedro Porro, Ben Davies and Brennan Johnson coming into the XI.

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has returned to the matchday squad for the first time since injuring his calf in the Carabao Cup semi-final defeat at Liverpool at the beginning of February. The Brazilian has been named on the bench to begin with.

, the Australian revealed that he wouldn't make too many changes for the Southampton match. Asked about rotation, he said: "To a certain extent, we are a little bit beyond that as the group is in a decent place physically where I don’t have to get players gametime. As I said, it is about getting some momentum leading into the game on Thursday. We will make a couple of changes but we won’t make too many."

Here is the Tottenham XI he has selected to take on Southampton:

Confirmed Tottenham XI: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Davies, Spence; Bentancur, Bergvall, Maddison; Johnson, Solanke, Son.

Substitutes: Kinsky, Udogie, Van de Ven, Sarr, Bissouma, Gray, Odobert, Tel, Richarlison.

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