Are we on the road to greater things now?

After Wednesday's game, against a poor start (I might add), we return to the league and face Stoke City. A must need win to get back on track. I am presuming that Pochettino will look at the team from Wednesday's game before finalising his lineup for tomorrow's game.

Spurs are without Sanchez for his elbow in our previous league match (Watford). He has a three-match ban.

After Danny Rose's head injury, he has been given the all clear. It will be interesting to see if Pochettino will pick him.

As for the opposition. Bruno Martins Indi is out and Jese has returned to Spain to be with his ill baby son. Geoff Cameron returns.

So there you have it. Let battle commence.

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• Spurs have won 4-0 in each of their past three Premier League matches against Stoke. No English side has won four consecutive top-flight matches against an opponent by four or more goals in each game.
• Stoke's only league victory in the last seven away games against Tottenham came in November 2014 (D3, L3).

Tottenham Hotspur

• Spurs could go five league matches without a win for the first time in a single season since March 2012.
• They have earned just five points from six games, with their only league victory during that run coming at home to Crystal Palace.
• Mauricio Pochettino's side have dropped nine points in their first seven Premier League games at Wembley this season, as many as in their last 23 league games at White Hart Lane.
• Tottenham's total of four league defeats this season is already as many as in the entirety of the previous campaign.
• Harry Kane has scored 31 Premier League goals in 2017. The only three players to have scored more in a calendar year are: Alan Shearer (36 in 1995), Robin van Persie (35 in 2011) and Thierry Henry (34 in 2004). Kane has scored six goals in his last three league appearances against Stoke.
• Dele Alli has scored in all three of his Premier League games against Stoke, including twice in a 4-0 away win last year.

Stoke City

• The Potters are vying to earn successive league wins for the first time since early January.
• Stoke have 16 points after 15 matches, their lowest tally at this stage of a Premier League season.
• They have only managed two wins and 10 points from their last 15 away games, and lost 12 of their last 19.
• Mark Hughes' side have conceded 30 goals this season, the second-worst record in the division behind West Ham's 32.
• Stoke have won four of their five games at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium, although they lost their most recent game at the ground against Manchester City in the 2011 FA Cup final.
• Their next league defeat will be their 1,000 in the top flight.
• Peter Crouch needs one goal to become Stoke's outright all-time leading Premier League scorer. He is level with Jonathan Walters on 43 goals.
• Xherdan Shaqiri has been directly involved in nine goals in his last 11 league games, scoring four and setting up five. 

Enjoy the game tomorrow and take care. Don Scully