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Alasdair Gold

Tottenham predicted team vs Wolves: Rodrigo Bentancur starts and Conte makes defensive change

Antonio Conte will be tempted to change up his Tottenham Hotspur team for the visit of Wolves on Sunday afternoon in the Premier League.

Conte stuck with the same starting XI after the FA Cup win against Brighton but those Tottenham players struggled for much of the match against Southampton.

The Italian needs to make changes for another tough test in the shape of Wolves and at least one of his new signings is likely to come into the team.

Rodrigo Bentancur was a rare bright spot in Wednesday's defeat after a similarly positive cameo at the weekend. This could well be the chance to hand him his first start.

To bring in fellow new signing from Juventus Dejan Kulusevski as well would mean dropping one of Son Heung-min or Lucas Moura. The former scored and Conte has said he will start and the latter had a hand in both Spurs goals.

Elsewhere, Conte will be without the injured Eric Dier, Oliver Skipp and Japhet Tanganga.

He could be tempted to rotate at least one of his wing-backs, with Matt Doherty no doubt hoping to start after an ineffective display from Emerson Royal.

Here is the team we reckon Conte will select:

3-4-3: Lloris; Sanchez, Romero, Davies; Doherty, Hojbjerg, Bentancur, Reguilon; Lucas, Kane, Son.

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