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Antonio Conte has revealed that Son Heung-min will start for Tottenham against Sevilla in the final friendly of their South Korea tour. Named on the bench on Wednesday against Team K League, the Spurs star was given a rousing reception when he entered the field of play before going on to score twice in the 6-3 triumph.
Mixing things up in terms of his starting XI in midweek, Conte is likely to do the same once again against the Spanish side as he looks to give all of his squad sufficient game time so he can assess them ahead of the new season. Confirming that he will make changes to his XI, the Italian indicated that Son will be starting this time when asked about Tottenham's No.7.
"I explained in the press conference that our line-up was dictated by the training session because apart from our international players we started one week ago. Then with the international players they have just started this week to work with us," he said in his pre-match press conference.
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"In the next game we have for sure to change. I want to change something. I repeat I want to make many rotations because in pre-season you have the possibility to try to give the opportunity to all the players to play the game and show that they deserve to play every game. Sonny, for tomorrow's game, is going to start."
Tottenham will be boosted by the return of Dejan Kulusevski and Ben Davies for the Sevilla game, with the pair both spotted training prior to the Team K League encounter but not involved in the game itself. Ivan Perisic, on the other hand, will miss out again through injury as it won't be until they return to London when he starts to participate in regular training sessions after his calf issue.
"Deki Kulusevski and Ben Davies, they are available for tomorrow's game. [Ivan] Perisic started to work with us, but with Ivan we have to go step by step because the injury was a serious injury but it's good that he started to work with us. I think that when we get back to London with us he can be involved with us in regular training sessions," added Conte.
"About the team for the game against Sevilla, I think that I'm going to change something. The aim especially at the start of the season is to give many rotations and to give the possibility to all the players to play the game."
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