Tottenham Hotspur vs Swansea City: Follow live updates and goal news as Spurs look for a Wembley win
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Your support makes all the difference.Tottenham Hotspur host Swansea City in Saturday’s late Premier League kick-off, with Spurs still searching for their first Premier League home win at Wembley Stadium.
But confidence at the club is high after their impressive 3-1 victory over Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday night.
Mauricio Pochettino has brought Kieran Trippier and Moussa Sissoko into his starting line-up, while Dele Alli returns after sitting out one match of his three match European ban.
Swansea make one change from the team that lost to Newcastle last time out.
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53 mins: Tottenham are controlling the game and pinning Swansea back inside their defensive third, the visitors struggling to find an opportunity to recover.
"The volume is turned up," reveals Ian Darke, although which not if he means figuratively as the home fans launch into song or because they are about to play the sound of that drum machine they used for the Chelsea match here.
57 mins: Tottenham are getting closer as Harry Kane rattles the crossbar! The England striker reacted instinctively to poke Moussa Sissoko's pull-back goalwards, and Fabianski could only look on as the ball soared above and clipped off the frame of the goal.
It woud seem it's just a matter of time until Tottenham find that opening goal.
63 mins: Mauricio Pochettino makes a change as Tottenham's £23m signing from Paris Saint-Germain, Serge Aurier, comes on to replace Moussa Sissoko.
65 mins: Swansea are living so, so dangerously. Son thought he was about to break the deadlock but his opportunity was ushered behind for a corner, and from Christian Eriksen's subsequent delivery, Kane's near post header was flicked over the crossbar by Fabianski.
68 mins: Dele Alli must score! Dele Alli hasn't scored! Dele Alli can't even head the ball anymore! Eriksen finds the England man all alone in the six-yard-box with a beautiful cross from the right, only for Alli to completely miscue his header and send it back in the direction of the Dane.
72 mins: Swansea make a second change following Renato Sanches' earlier exit. Tammy Abraham has run his race for the night, and it's time for Wilfried Bony to continue his second spell at the club. He may be doing it from a more defensive perspective than he would normally expect.
74 mins: But here comes a more poignant substitution. Fernando Llorente is on for his Tottenham Premier League debut, and will partner Harry Kane up front for the final quarter of an hour at Wembley. The Spaniard replaces Son Heung-min.
He couldn't, could he?
He will, won't he?
79 mins: Tottenham's tempo has diminished in the past ten minutes, and now the nerves have set in as their fans ponder a third home match in the Premier League without a win. If they're not careful, they may not even make it out of this contest with a point; twice in recent moments, Spurs have given away free-kicks in positions that Swansea have threatened from.
84 mins: Paul Clement: tactical genius or mentalcase? Answers on a postcard. With six minutes remaining in this match where his side have defended brilliantly in a backs-to-the-wall performance, the Swansea manager has decided to remove a defender, Mike van der Hoorn, and replace him with an attacking winger in Wayne Routledge.
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