Antonio Conte will again be without four players for Tottenham's FA Cup fifth-round tie at Middlesbrough.
Oliver Skipp (contamination), Rodrigo Bentancur (lower leg), Japhet Tangana (knee), and Lucas Moura (thump) remain sidelined, leaving Conte shy of choices at the Riverside Stadium on Tuesday night.
"We have similar players, the very crew that we had for Leeds," Conte said Monday. "No Skipp, no Tanganga, no Moura, no Bentancur."
Back-up goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini might get back to the crew subsequent to missing two matches through disease.
With Spurs' next Premier League game, at home to Everton, moved to Monday, Spurs have six days rest after 'Boro yet Conte resembles to roll out certain improvements, with any semblance of Davinson Sanchez and Steven Bergwijn needing a beginning. Eric Dier and Heung-min Son could be refreshed, while Sergio Reguilon might return at left wing-back in the wake of missing the last four matches.
With restricted choices in midfield, Harry Winks and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg are set to begin once more, except if Conte chooses to hand Harvey White a full introduction.
Tottenham anticipated XI (3-4-3): Lloris; Sanchez, Romero, Davies; Doherty, Winks, Hojbjerg, Reguilon; Bergwijn, Kulusevski, Kane.
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