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Tottenham are looking to bounce back from Sunday’s disappointing home defeat to Newcastle as they take on Championship strugglers Brighton for a place in the League Cup quarter-finals.
We’ll be bringing you live text commentary from White Hart Lane as Mauricio Pochettino’s side attempt to banish the all-too-familiar frustration beginning to emerge from some of the club’s supporters.
The shock defeat to Newcastle means that Spurs have now won only one of their previous seven Premier League fixtures and have slipped into the bottom half of the table.
Progression to the latter stages of the League Cup, which Spurs captured in 2008 to lift their only trophy since 1991, would provide some much needed respite for Pochettino.
Elsewhere Manchester City will attempt to join Chelsea and Liverpool in the quarter-final draw as they take on Alan Pardew’s rejuvenated Newcastle side at the Etihad and Stoke host Southampton in the reverse of Saturday’s Premier League fixture, which saw the high-flying Saints record a tight one-nil victory.
