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Tottenham v Chelsea KO 12:45 Venue: White Hart Lane Date: Saturday, 20 October

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Tottenham pair Kyle Naughton and Jake Livermore could return for the Saturday lunchtime kick-off against Chelsea.
Naughton (ankle) has been out for a month, while Livermore's groin injury has sidelined him for six weeks.

Chelsea captain John Terry begins his four-match ban for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.

Daniel Sturridge (hamstring) returns, and Frank Lampard and Ryan Bertrand are fit after missing England duty due to injury and illness respectively.

Victory for Tottenham would be their 50th over Chelsea in all competitions. Chelsea have 61 wins.

Tottenham are unbeaten in nine matches in all competitions (W5, D4) since the opening-day defeat at Newcastle. They could register five successive league victories for the first time in 2012.
Only in 2009-10 have Spurs had more points (15) after seven games of a Premier League campaign than they have this season.
The north London side have lost just two of their last 22 league matches at White Hart Lane (W15, D5, L2).
They are unbeaten in their last 20 Premier League home matches against fellow London opposition since a 3-1 defeat by Arsenal in September 2007.
Andre Villas-Boas celebrated his 35th birthday three days before this game. He was in charge of Chelsea for 256 days, winning 20 of his 40 league and cup matches with the club.
According to Opta, Gareth Bale has had a league-high 12 shots on target this season.

Chelsea's tally of 19 points out of a possible 21 represents their best start to a season since 2005-06, when they registered 10 wins and a draw in their opening 11 matches.
Defeat by Tottenham would leave them with an identical record to the same stage last season when managed by Andre Villas-Boas (W6, D1, L1).
Chelsea are the only team in the Premier League yet to concede a goal in the second half.
They have the best defensive record in the division, conceding only four goals so far and keeping four clean sheets.
Fernando Torres has now scored 11 league goals in 53 games for Chelsea - it took him just 19 games to reach that mark for Liverpool.
If fit, Frank Lampard could make his 500th Premier League start, while Ramires is one shy of 100 appearances for Chelsea.

"Chelsea will be without John Terry, who is suspended because he has not challenged his ban for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, and they will miss him - especially at White Hart Lane."
 

This fixture was arranged to be played at White Hart Lane on Saturday 20 October 2012 at 15:00. Due to live broadcasting on Sky Sports it has been moved to a new scheduled date Saturday 20 October 2012 at 12:45.
Referee: M Dean Assistants: S Ledger, J Brooks Fourth Official: L Mason.
Tottenham Chelsea Manager: Roberto Di Matteo
Manager: Andre Villas-Boas.
 

Spurs
WON
2 - 0 v Aston Villa (H) 07 Oct 2012
WON
2 - 3 v Man Utd (A) 29 Sep 2012
WON
2 - 1 v QPR (H) 23 Sep 2012
WON
1 - 3 v Reading (A) 16 Sep 2012
DRAWN
1 - 1 v Norwich (H) 01 Sep 2012
DRAWN
1 - 1 v West Brom (H) 25 Aug 2012

Chelsea
WON
4 - 1 v Norwich (H) 06 Oct 2012
WON
1 - 2 v Arsenal (A) 29 Sep 2012
WON
1 - 0 v Stoke (H) 22 Sep 2012
DRAWN
0 - 0 v QPR (A) 15 Sep 2012
WON
2 - 0 v Newcastle (H) 25 Aug 2012
WON
4 - 2 v Reading (H)
 

great write-up, loving the "They could register five successive league victories for the first time in 2012" line. not many teams will win 5 consecutive more than once in a year
 

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