Tottenham Hotspur face one of the biggest fixtures in their calendar as they host Arsenal in the North London.
Spurs have made a slow start to the new campaign having taken just four points from their first three league matches.
Ange Postecoglou’s side dropped points at Leicester before comfortably seeing off Everton at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium winning 4-0.
However, a defeat away to Newcastle United halted their momentum as they failed to capitalise on their dominance at St James’ Park.
Tottenham are hopeful that Dominic Solanke and Micky van de Ven will be back available for the derby, however, one of their players has just gone off injured on international duty.
Bissouma suffers injury in action for Mali
Yves Bissouma was forced off with an injury in Mali’s 1-0 World Cup qualifying win over Eswatini. The midfielder went down after having his foot stamped on and had to be withdrawn.
Hopefully, the issue is not too bad with the 28-year-old able to walk off the pitch, but Spurs will now be concerned about their midfield star.
Postecoglou was without Bissouma for their trip to the King Power Stadium as the North London club suspended him for posting himself on social media inhaling from a balloon.
The North London derby is on September 15 and the Malian international will not have a great deal of time to recover.
Bissouma scored the only goal of the game for Mali. He’s now scored more goals for club and country in his first four games of the season (three goals) than he did across the entirety of the last three.
How could Tottenham replace Bissouma vs Arsenal
Postecoglou could now face a dilemma in midfield if he has no Bissouma for the North London derby. The most likely candidate to replace him would be Rodrigo Bentancur.
Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall would also be contenders to replace him, although given their inexperience that seems unlikely in a game of this magnitude.
A midfield trio of Bentancur, Maddison and Sarr is how Spurs lined up in their Premier League opener against Leicester.
Possible Tottenham line-up vs Arsenal (4-3-3): Vicario; Porro, Van de Ven, Romero, Udogie; Bentancur, Maddison, Sarr; Son, Kulusevski, Solanke.
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