Tottenham V Chelsea Barclays Premier League Match 28 -September 2013.Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas will welcome back a host of players that were rested at Aston Villa in midweek.
Danny Rose is also available after injury, while Aaron Lennon faces a fitness test on a foot problem.
Chelsea's Marco van Ginkel will be absent for at least six months after he tore his anterior cruciate ligament against Swindon Town on Tuesday.Watch Tottenham V Chelsea Live, Watch Tottenham V Chelsea Live Stream, Watch Tottenham V Chelsea Free Live Stream, Watch Tottenham V Chelsea Online, Watch Tottenham V Chelsea Online Free, Tottenham V Chelsea Live, Tottenham V Chelsea live stream Online.
Fellow midfielder Ramires also picked up an injury in that match and is rated doubtful.
MATCH PREVIEW
Former Tottenham goalkeeper Erik Thorsvedt repeated it, but it was our own Garth Crooks who actually coined the saying of the season so far. Asked to comment on Spurs' summer transfer dealings an inspired Garth replied: "They've sold Elvis and bought The Beatles."
So far, so true: Roberto Soldado, Paulinho, Christian Eriksen and Erik Lamela have looked a pretty fab four as Spurs have won eight of nine games and conceded just one goal, though that solitary goal did lead to defeat in the game they would most have wanted to win - the derby at Arsenal.
Now they face another test - and for Spurs it's arguably a stiffer one - Chelsea.
Stiffer because it would be hard to overstate just how useless Spurs have been against Chelsea over the last couple of decades. Since 1990 the clubs have met 55 times in league and cup, with Tottenham winning only five games to Chelsea's 31. Spurs have won a meagre three Premier League encounters in 42 attempts.
It's a record so poor that you'd forgive Tottenham for just sending the points weaving through the London traffic on the back of a courier's bike to Stamford Bridge, saving themselves the bother of lacing their boots.
But football doesn't work like that. After all, this is Jose Mourinho's new Chelsea. Not the powerhouse steamroller of a side that has flattened Tottenham's proud cockerel to a pulp of messy feathers so often.
This is a Chelsea side which seems shocked at its own shortcomings; a side that had hoped the returning Mourinho would, like some modern-day King Arthur, slide the sword from the stone to unleash a torrent of attacking, blissful, goal-filled football. It hasn't happened.
So the sorcerer and his apprentice meet for the first time on equal terms. At Porto, Chelsea and at Inter, Andre Villas-Boas was to Mourinho what Mourinho had once been to Bobby Robson - a favoured pupil, a protégé; later, successfully for Porto but not for Chelsea, Villas-Boas was cast as his replacement.
How Villas-Boas would treasure a victory over the man with whom, by his own admission, he no longer has a relationship. To bring it back to where we began, how Villas-Boas would love to prove that he is no McCartney to Mourinho's Lennon - not mere excellence compared to genius.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Chelsea's 4-2 victory over Tottenham last season was their first win in seven Premier League visits to White Hart Lane since a 2-0 win in August 2005.
But Spurs' recent record against the Blues has improved - after failing to win any of their first 28 Premier League clashes with Chelsea, they have only lost five of the last 14 (W3, L5, D6).
They have scored just 11 Premier League goals between them from 10 games this season.
Andre Villas-Boas was assistant manager to Jose Mourinho between 2002 and 2009 at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan.
Tottenham
Tottenham have the best defensive record in any of Europe's top five leagues this season having conceded only one goal so far.
This is only the second time since the 1960s that Tottenham have won four out of their opening five league matches. The only other instance came in the 2009-10 season in which they finished fourth and qualified for the Champions League.
Tottenham have averaged the most shots per game (21) and have allowed the fewest shots of any team (seven) in the league this season.
Chelsea
Ten points is Chelsea's lowest-ever tally after five games since Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003, along with the 2007-08 season, also under Jose Mourinho, and 2011-12 when Andre Villas-Boas was in charge.
If this game is drawn then Chelsea will have exactly mirrored that start in 2007-08 that saw Mourinho sacked after six matches.
Their tally of six goals from their opening five matches is their joint-lowest at this stage for 18 years.
None of Chelsea's strikers have scored a Premier League goal yet this season. In fact, of Chelsea's previous 25 league goals, only one has been scored by a recognised striker (Fernando Torres v Everton in May).