A bold starting XI
Ryan Mason certainly raised some eyebrows with his Tottenham starting XI to face Brentford in Saturday's early kick-off. Needing to tweak his team following last weekend's 2-1 defeat away at Aston Villa, the acting head coach made four changes to his side as Davinson Sanchez, Yves Bissouma, Dejan Kulusevski and Arnaut Danjuma all came in.
Pedro Porro and Richarlison dropped down to the bench as Cristian Romero and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg missed out completely through injury. Adding some much-needed energy to the team in his 30-minute cameo last weekend, Bissouma was handed his first league start since the New Year's Day defeat at home to Villa.