Gary Lineker changes mind about where Tottenham will finish hours before Leicester clash.
Tottenham Hotspur have watched the rest of the Premier League sing and dance over the weekend, but now it’s their turn.
From Manchester United to Liverpool, there haven’t been any upsets on the opening weekend of the new Premier League season, with the top teams being functional and getting the job done.
There is the potential for an upset to be on the cards when Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham travel to the Midlands on Monday night to take on newly-promoted Leicester City.
Before a ball was kicked, everyone was making their predictions about what might happen and some were crazier than others – Gary Neville thinks Liverpool won’t finish in the top-four.
And Gary Lineker has admitted that he has already made an ‘error’ about where Spurs will finish this term.
Last season, they were pipped to Champions League football by Unai Emery’s Aston Villa in what was Postecoglou’s debut season at the club.
Not only did the London side earn more points after Harry Kane joined Bayern Munich, but they also scored four more goals.
But Lineker stated that he initially told viewers that, now that Postecoglou is settled, they will finish fifth again, but he admitted that he made an ‘error’.
The former striker shared, hours before the Leicester game, that he has Tottenham ‘battling with Liverpool’ and they will indeed finish fourth and return to Europe’s elite competition, as he told The Rest is Football.
Tottenham Hotspur in the top four
“Just a quick one on Leicester and Tottenham while I think about it,” said Lineker. “When we did our predictions, I made an error.
“It’s okay to change it now, because they haven’t played yet. But I was meant to put Tottenham in the top four. I only had three Champions League spots. I am just going to correct myself there and put Tottenham in the top four.
“It’s myself. I listen to the podcast, to check that we don’t mess up too much and I thought, ‘hang on a minute? Why did I put Tottenham fifth when I was meant to put them third or fourth, battling with Liverpool’. I even said ‘batting with Liverpool’. So, just to be clear.”
Tottenham’s summer transfer window
Spurs have been very busy this summer. From the get-go, they retained and brought back Timo Werner on a season-long loan deal.
Before Tottenham signed highly-rated Archie Gray from Leeds United in what is probably one of the deals of the summer.
Even though they are scoring goals for fun in this new attacking system, more firepower was still added, with Tottenham signing Dominic Solanke for a club-record fee
From an attacking sense, they will blow many teams away, with Jermaine Jenas still concerned about a problem under Postecoglou that hasn’t been fixed.
Conceding goals, set-piece goals and issues from corners. They were all problems last term.
