Tottenham Hotspur travel to the south coast to face Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.

Antonio Conte has lost just one of his last 37 top-flight matches as a manager against a promoted team (W29 D7) in a sequence stretching across his time at Juventus, Chelsea, Inter and Spurs.

Here’s the Tottenham XI Conte may deploy to avoid a rare defeat against opposition that spent the previous campaign in the second tier.

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GK: Hugo Lloris – Tottenham’s skipper has kept six clean sheets across his last eight appearances against Bournemouth.

CB: Cristian Romero – The aggressive Argentine racked up 45 yellow cards across his first four years of European football but has only been booked once this season.

CB: Eric Dier – Ted Croker, Dier’s grandfather, was Secretary of the Football Association for a decade and a half in the ’70s and ’80s.

CB: Clement Lenglet – The Barcelona loanee admitted that it’s „too early“ to speak about a potential stay at Spurs beyond the current campaign but his immediate future may reside in Tottenham’s XI.

RWB: Emerson Royal – In his last Premier League appearance away from home, Emerson earned his first red card since he was dismissed and scored an own goal against Real Madrid in September 2020.

CM: Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg – The Dane missed his third Premier League match in three years last weekend. An impressively miserly tally he isn’t expected to add to.

CM: Rodrigo Bentancur – In his last nine games for Spurs, Bentancur has scored twice. As many as he could muster across his previous 173 club appearances.

LWB: Ryan Sessegnon – After undergoing an individual pre-preseason training camp in Portugal last summer to aid „injury prevention“, Sessegnon has been available for every match so far this term.

RW: Lucas Moura – The former Paris Saint-Germain forward made his first start of the season in midweek and may be forced into a quickfire second if Conte wants to line up in a 3-4-3.

ST: Harry Kane – It took Kane 25 appearances to score ten Premier League goals last season. This term, he has hit double digits after just 12 games.

LW: Son Heung-min – On his last start at Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium, Son was sent off before half-time.