Can Thomas Frank turn things around against struggling Newcastle?

Tottenham Hotspur welcome fellow bottom-half strugglers Newcastle United to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for 2025/26 Premier League gameweek 26 on Tuesday night.

Spurs suffered a 2-0 defeat at the hands of a resurgent Manchester United outfit last time out in the Premier League.

Newcastle also tasted defeat in their Premier League outing, losing 3-2 to Brentford at the weekend.

Match preview

Tottenham Hotspur have lost five of their last seven Premier League games against Newcastle (W1 D1), just one fewer defeat than they’d suffered in their previous 23 against the Magpies (W13 D4 L6).

Against no team have Newcastle won more Premier League games overall (27, level with Aston Villa) or away from home (12, level with West Ham) than they have against Spurs.

Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur is the most played Premier League fixture never to finish 0-0 (61 times), while it’s the fourth highest scoring fixture in the competition’s history (196 goals) after Liverpool v Spurs (209), Arsenal v Liverpool (199) and Liverpool v Newcastle (198).

The Lilywhites are winless in their last 11 midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Premier League games (D3 L8), their longest run in the competition’s history. Their last victory was against Brentford in January 2024 (3-2).

The Magpies have won six of their last eight midweek (Tues, Weds, Thurs) Premier League games (D1 L1), netting 22 goals in total in these matches (2.8 per game).

Since winning four of their first five home Premier League matches in the 2024/25 season, Tottenham have won just four out of 26 games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (D7 L15).

Newcastle United have won just two of their last 15 Premier League away games (D5 L8) and have lost their last three in London since a 1-0 win at West Ham in March last season.

Dominic Solanke has scored 13 goals in his last 19 home Premier League starts (4 in 6 for Bournemouth, 9 in 13 for Spurs), while he has netted in each of his last three appearances against Newcastle (4 goals).

Team news

Tottenham Hotspur

Captain Cristian Romero will serve his first of a four-game ban after he was sent off in the Man Utd defeat.

Destiny Udogie was forced off with a thigh injury in the United defeat.

He joins Dejan Kulusevski, Mohammed Kudus, James Maddison, Rodrigo Bentancur, Ben Davies, Lucas Bergvall, Richarlison, Pedro Porro and Kevin Danso in the host’s stacked infirmary.

Newcastle United

Lewis Miley, Emil Krafth, Joelinton, Tino Livramento, Fabian Schar and Anthony Gordon are sidelined with injuries.

Predicted line-ups

Tottenham Hotspur: Guglielmo Vicario, Archie Grey, Radu Dragusin, Micky van de Ven, Souza, João Palhinha, Pape Sarr, Conor Gallagher, Wilson Odobert, Xavi Simons, Dominic Solanke.

Newcastle United: Nick Pope, Kieran Trippier, Malick Thiaw, Dan Burn, Lewis Hall, Sandro Tonali, Joe Willock, Jacob Ramsey, Anthony Elanga, Harvey Barnes, Nick Woltemade.