Tomorrow night sees Tottenham Hotspur hosting Everton FC in a match-up of two sides that are only mid-table, but are led by extremely accomplished managers.
Jose Mourinho at Spurs and Carlo Ancelotti at Everton are two well decorated bossed who are tasked with trying to clean up a really messed up situation at their respective clubs.
“I think everyone in football admires Carlo as a coach and as a person,” Mourinho said of Ancelotti.
“If you don’t know him as a person, at least you know him as a coach. It’s not because I like him so much as a person that I’m going to say the obvious, which is: he’s one of the top managers in the world of the last two decades and of course now.”
“I think it’s a privilege for the Premier League to have Carlo back, it’s a privilege for Everton to have Carlo as manager, or head coach, whatever way you want to call him.”
Tottenham Hotspur Starting XI Prediction vs Everton FC
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Son Lamela Bergwijn
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Tottenham Hotspur vs Everton FC FYIs
Kickoff: Mon July 6, 9pm Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Team news for both sides: go to this link
Odds: Tottenham 11/10 Draw 13/5 Everton 14/5 9th, 44 points
Records: Tottenham 12-9-11 Everton: 12-8-12
TV Channel/Live Stream: Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event channels, Now TV (UK)
NBCSN NBCSport.com (US)
Prediction: Tottenham 0, Everton 0
Tottenham are coming off a lopsided and also controversial defeat to Sheffield United on Friday night, and they’ll badly be looking to make a strong response here. However, we don’t see them truly achieving that result which they badly need.
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