OPINION
Mauricio Pochettino is a fantastic manager and has done a brilliant job at Tottenham.
However, we weren’t impressed with how he dealt with Toby Alderweireld last year and we’re concerned he’s about to do the same with Christian Eriksen.
With Alderweireld refusing to sign a new contract last season, Pochettino trotted out a number of different excuses as to why he wasn’t playing the centre-back, before claiming it was on merit.
In the end, they came to a truce and Tottenham’s best centre-back came back into the fold where he’s been playing brilliantly ever since.
Fast forward to today and while Eriksen has missed a couple of games through injury, he has only made the bench for the last four games, despite starting for Denmark over the international break.
The similarities with Alderweireld are surely too big to be a coincidence.
We could be reading too much into it but Saturday’s line-up will be very interesting.
If Pochettino carries on playing Moussa Sissoko, who admittedly has been playing brilliantly, and Eriksen is on the bench, Tottenham fans will be very concerned.
The game against Chelsea on Saturday is a huge marker for Tottenham’s title aspirations. Pochettino simply must play Eriksen in a familiar attacking four, with Harry Kane up top, and Delle Alli, Lucas Moura and Eriksen behind him.
Anything else would be a huge mistake and with Eriksen in the team we think that Tottenham can take Chelsea’s unbeaten record off them at Wembley.
Poch has a problem in defence, with Davinson Sanchez out and Juan Foyth arriving back late from international duty.
Foyth didn’t play in the last Argentina game though and could be okay but Tottenham confirmed that Jan Vertonghen is back in full training and he should come straight back in for such a big game.
This is the team that will beat Chelsea at Wembley:
