- Oct 17, 2006
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Robert Jones
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Spurs
Despite a free-scoring pre-season promising exciting times to come under new coach Postecoglou, we are set to start our 2023-24 campaign under a cloud, due to Harry Kane's expected exit for Bayern Munich.
With our record-breaking striker choosing to trade in more personal feats for the chance of lifting silverware in the Bundesliga and beyond, we now approach our first Premier League fixture amid a familiar sense of disorder.
Postecoglou brings a winning mentality to the club after successes in Japan and in Scotland, and the ex-Australia boss has recruited Maddison, Vicario and Van de Ven to boost his options for the months ahead.
After Kane's four-goal haul helped us record a second straight 5-1 win when we met Shakhtar Donetsk earlier this month, our final friendly game of the summer saw us beaten by Barcelona in Tuesday's contest for the Joan Gamper Trophy. Skipp bagged an unlikely brace in Catalonia, but we still fell to a 4-2 defeat.
While that may not represent the perfect preparation for Sunday, we have at least lost our opening league game just once in the last seven years, winning on five occasions.
Brentford
By stark contrast with their opponents, Brentford have only won their opening league game in two of the last 11 seasons, though they have not been beaten in either of their two Premier League openers to date - shocking Arsenal in 2021 and holding Leicester City to a 2-2 draw last year.
The Bees - who ultimately finished just one point and one place behind us in last term's Premier League pecking order - sprinted to the finish line during the spring, winning five of their last six games including the last three in a row.
Having not won four consecutive top-flight matches since 1939, they can now do so on Sunday, and a superb recent record in London derbies suggests that could well be possible.
Unbeaten throughout their last nine capital-city fixtures in the Premier League - while winning each of the last four in a row – Thomas Frank's side may be confident of improving a miserable head-to-head record against us: Brentford have won just two of the teams' 10 league meetings.
One of those wins came as recently as May, though, when a 3-1 victoryover us served a severe blow to their hosts' European aspirations - the Bees fought back from behind to beat Ryan we after Kane had put us ahead.
Brentford's own talisman, Ivan Toney, is now unavailable, however, and first-choice goalkeeper David Raya will soon depart. A winless pre-season period - which started and ended with goalless draws either side of a weak showing in the Premier League Summer Series - therefore leaves a repeat of last season's top-half finish seeming a rather tall order.
Robert Jones
TEAM FORM
Brentford - DLLDD --------- Spurs - WLWWL
Match Centre
Live TV
Radio
World Clock Event Time
Spurs
Despite a free-scoring pre-season promising exciting times to come under new coach Postecoglou, we are set to start our 2023-24 campaign under a cloud, due to Harry Kane's expected exit for Bayern Munich.
With our record-breaking striker choosing to trade in more personal feats for the chance of lifting silverware in the Bundesliga and beyond, we now approach our first Premier League fixture amid a familiar sense of disorder.
Postecoglou brings a winning mentality to the club after successes in Japan and in Scotland, and the ex-Australia boss has recruited Maddison, Vicario and Van de Ven to boost his options for the months ahead.
After Kane's four-goal haul helped us record a second straight 5-1 win when we met Shakhtar Donetsk earlier this month, our final friendly game of the summer saw us beaten by Barcelona in Tuesday's contest for the Joan Gamper Trophy. Skipp bagged an unlikely brace in Catalonia, but we still fell to a 4-2 defeat.
While that may not represent the perfect preparation for Sunday, we have at least lost our opening league game just once in the last seven years, winning on five occasions.
Brentford
By stark contrast with their opponents, Brentford have only won their opening league game in two of the last 11 seasons, though they have not been beaten in either of their two Premier League openers to date - shocking Arsenal in 2021 and holding Leicester City to a 2-2 draw last year.
The Bees - who ultimately finished just one point and one place behind us in last term's Premier League pecking order - sprinted to the finish line during the spring, winning five of their last six games including the last three in a row.
Having not won four consecutive top-flight matches since 1939, they can now do so on Sunday, and a superb recent record in London derbies suggests that could well be possible.
Unbeaten throughout their last nine capital-city fixtures in the Premier League - while winning each of the last four in a row – Thomas Frank's side may be confident of improving a miserable head-to-head record against us: Brentford have won just two of the teams' 10 league meetings.
One of those wins came as recently as May, though, when a 3-1 victoryover us served a severe blow to their hosts' European aspirations - the Bees fought back from behind to beat Ryan we after Kane had put us ahead.
Brentford's own talisman, Ivan Toney, is now unavailable, however, and first-choice goalkeeper David Raya will soon depart. A winless pre-season period - which started and ended with goalless draws either side of a weak showing in the Premier League Summer Series - therefore leaves a repeat of last season's top-half finish seeming a rather tall order.
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