Maurizio Sarri’s teams have been pretty easy to predict this season.
He has an established first XI which he picks for Premier League games, which has only really been tweaked for injury.
Meanwhile in the cups, he’s picked a pretty stable second string for the easy early fixtures.
Now we reach an interesting point where we have a tough cup game against Spurs, and we get to find out just how seriously he’s going to take tonight’s game.
In goal we know Kepa is a cert. Then at the back Azpi, Rudiger and David Luiz, with Marcos Alonso on the left.
So that’s all first team so far, thanks to the rest the team got at the weekend.
Further forward, N’Golo Kante and Jorginho will be fresh. RLC is out, and it seems Mateo Kovacic is back and fit.
The front three has Eden Hazard guaranteed, Olivier Giroud as probable and, sadly, not Callum Hudson-Odoi but Pedro down the right.
