Tottenham vs Burnley LIVE commentary: Spurs desperate to end horrible losing streak and potentially relegate Clarets: Kick-off time, team news and how to follow

Tottenham will hope to end their losing streak this weekend when they host Burnley in north London, live on talkSPORT 2.

Spurs have lost four consecutive Premier League games, meaning their Champions League hopes they seem thin, while the teams behind them are starting to catch up.

However, a win here would get them back on track and prepare them for that massive game against city ​​of manchester.

Meanwhile, the Clarets will be relegated from the Premier League if they fail to win in north London.

They could still be relegated even if they pick up three points against Spurs if Nottingham Forest beat Chelsea.

Tottenham vs Burnley: What happened to Maddison?

James Maddison It looked like he was going to be the signing of the season in the first part of his Tottenham career.

The English international fits in Ange Postecoglou's number ten and directly contributed to eight goals in his first 11 league games for Spurs.

Even in games where he did not directly contribute to any goals, the former Leicester player was a bright spark and creative threat in almost every Tottenham game.

He then suffered an ankle injury in November against Chelsea and hasn't been the same player since.

Maddison returned to action in January and has played in every league match since then.

However, he has only contributed two more goals and has started the last two games on the bench.

He's clearly struggling and probably just needs the season to end and get some rest.

However, Euro 2024 It's just around the corner, so it will be fascinating to see if he's on the plane to Germany.

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• Tottenham have won seven of their eight Premier League home games against Burnley (D1), winning the last four without conceding a goal. Against Crystal Palace alone between 2015 and 2019 they won five in a row at home and kept a clean sheet on every occasion in the competition.
• Burnley are winless in their last 10 away league games against Tottenham (D1 L9) since a 3-2 victory at White Hart Lane in October 1974.
• Tottenham have lost just one of their last 22 Premier League games against teams that started the day in the relegation zone (W14 D7), although that defeat came against Burnley in February 2022.

Tottenham vs Burnley: team news

The hosts have a lot of defensive problems to deal with.

Destiny Udogie, Ben Davies and Ryan Sessegnon are out for the remainder of the campaign.

Emerson Royal started at left back against Liverpool but was terrible and Oliver Skipp finished the game there, which could happen from the start here.

Fraser Forster, Timo Werner and Manor Solomon will also not participate.

Meanwhile, for Burnley, Jordan Beyer and Ameen Al-Dakhil's seasons are over and they join Nathan Redmond and Aaron Ramsey on the bench.

On the other hand, Maxime Esteve has doubts, while Luca Koleosho has little chance of being involved.

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• If Burnley do not win, they will be relegated from the Premier League for the fourth time. The Clarets have lost all seven of their league games against teams that started the day in the top five this season by an aggregate score of 24-7.
• Tottenham have lost each of their last four Premier League games: the last time they had a longer losing streak was between October and November 2004 (6 – 3 with Jacques Santini, 3 with Martin Jol), while Ange Postecoglou could be the first Spurs coach to lose five. consecutively since Osvaldo Ardiles in February 1994 (7).
• Tottenham have conceded more than 4 goals in four different Premier League games this season; The last time he conceded more goals was in 2013-14 (5). In fact, they have not kept a clean sheet in any of their last 13 home league games, their longest streak since a run of 15 between December 2002 and September 2003.

Tottenham vs Burnley: What has been said?

Despite what's at stake in this game, Vicente Kompany insists that his team will not play under pressure.

He said: “I wouldn't describe this match as high pressure for us.

“I don't think we have anything to lose.

“If you start this weekend protecting a two-point lead, I can see it's a different mentality. Maybe I'd be trying to convince myself if I said there's no pressure at that moment, but in this case, I genuinely think everything It's an opportunity for us.”

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• Nine of Burnley's 39 Premier League goals this season have come from outside the box, the highest percentage of any team this season (23%). They have never scored more than 10 from distance in a single Premier League campaign.
• Tottenham's Son Heung-Min has been directly involved in eight goals in his last six Premier League games against Burnley (5 goals, 3 assists), scoring a hat-trick in the first leg at Turf Moor in September.
• Richarlison is the only player to have scored and assisted as a substitute in more than one Premier League match this season, having done so in Tottenham's 2-1 win against Sheffield United in September and in their 4-0 loss. 2 against Liverpool last time. outside.
• Burnley's Arijanet Muric has the highest save percentage of any Premier League goalkeeper this season (81.3%). Meanwhile, despite playing just eight games so far, he also has the second-highest goals avoided rate (7) according to Opta's expected goals on goal conceded model (18 xGoTs faced, 11 goals conceded excluding own goals goal).

Tottenham vs Burnley: Date and how to follow

This Premier League match will take place on Saturday, May 11.

Kick-off at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.

talkSPORT 2 will have exclusive live coverage from north London, hosted by Chris Latchem.

Commentary will then come from Ian Danter and former Burnley striker Chris Iwelumo.

talkSPORT.com will also have all the reaction.

To tune in to talkSPORT via the website, Click HERE to watch the live stream.

You can also listen through the talkSPORT appon DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.