Antonio Conte and Cristian Stellini have made a total of six changes for Tottenham's FA Cup fifth round clash against Sheffield United on Wednesday evening. Pedro Porro, Lucas Moura and Son Heung-min are just some of the players to come into the side, thus seeing the likes of Cristian Romero and Harry Kane drop down to the bench for a rare breather.
One player who is not part of the 20-man travelling party for the game in South Yorkshire is Emerson Royal. The right wing-back has been in outstanding form of late and has produced his best football in a Tottenham shirt.
football.london understands that Emerson's absence is down to a knock to his knee. That in turn has opened up the door for Porro to come in for only his second start since his big-money move from Sporting CP on transfer deadline day.
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As well as Porro coming into the side, Davinson Sanchez, Pape Matar Sarr and Ivan Perisic are all handed starts by Conte and Stellini. There is no place in the XI for January signing Arnaut Danjuma, who once again takes his place on the substitutes' bench.
Speaking in his pre-match press conference at Hotspur Way on Tuesday afternoon, Stellini outlined the importance of Spurs winning at Bramall Lane and sealing a place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
"We have to progress. We have to try to win the game," explained the Italian. "It's an important competition, we take seriously all the competitions and we want to follow our momentum and we want to bring the same energy we had in our stadium to an away game. This is really important.
"If we feel good to do this, we can win the game, progress in the FA Cup and then we will see what happens in the next round. We have to be good, focused and determined to win this game."
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