Tottenham vs Fulham

Competing to stop a two-game losing streak with no home wins on the board, Tottenham Hotspur welcome London rival Fulham to White Hart Lane for Sunday’s Premier League match-up.

Ange Postecoglou’s team drew their last Europa League match 2-2 with Roma on Thursday as their visitors were trounced 4-1 in the top flight last time out against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

But having been shown the offside flag twice in the second half, Claudio Ranieri’s side did get what their perseverance deserved as veteran defender, Mats Hummels, poked home at the back post to finish a crazy evening of football in North London.

The 2-2 draw with Roma was the second consecutive match where Tottenham scored four goals and for the second straight match all four attempts on goal went in the net – and all four went for Tottenham in their mauling of a Manchester City team at the Etihad last weekend that saw the Lilywhites jump to sixth in the Premier League standings.

Three points away from Brighton & Hove Albion, Arsenal and Chelsea before the start of the gameweek 12, the crushing of City is the only win recorded by Postecoglou’s team in the last four matches starting with the Champions league to Galatasaray and Ipswich Town.

Tottenham has scored at least a goal in their last eight home league and cup games after their 1-0 loss to Arsenal in September, one of seven top-flight London derbies that Postecoglou has experienced first hand since becoming a manager in 2023.

When it comes to Premier League London derbies, Postecoglou is statistically the second-worst manager of all those who have managed Tottenham's men's team for at least ten games; his 44% defeat rate is just slightly better than Glenn Hoddle's 48% in capital matches.

Spurs are playing relegation-threatened Wolves at home against Fulham, who are still suffering from a Craven Cottage disaster. Alex Iwobi put them behind early in the game, but Matheus Cunha (2), Goncalo Guedes, and Joao Gomes put them on the West London warpath.

Fulham has dropped one point and three spots below Tottenham in ninth position after their three-game winning streak ended in incredibly depressing circumstances, but Marco Silva's team is still very much in the running for the championship with almost a third of the season left.

Iwobi's goal made it 13 games across all competitions with at least one goal for the Cottagers, who haven't been shut out by a club since losing to Manchester United in the season's first Premier League match. That was the one positive part of Fulham's thrashing last weekend.

Iwobi's goal made it 13 games across all competitions with at least one goal for the Cottagers, who haven't been shut out by a club since losing to Manchester United in the season's first Premier League match. That was the one positive part of Fulham's thrashing last weekend.

The Cottagers could go undefeated in eight games for the first time ever after avoiding defeat in each of their previous seven Premier League London derbies. They most recently crushed Spurs 3-0 at Craven Cottage in March, but their last league victory on Tottenham's field came back in March 2013.