Tottenham and Aston Villa are playing live on the English Premier League schedule on Saturday and the match from White Hart Lane starts at 10 am ET on the NBC Sports Network and NBCSN Live Extra website as the Barclays EPL season pushes towards the end for the Spurs.
Tottenham is dealing with Hugo Lloris being out while dealing with a knee injury and the team will also be without Kyle Walker. The team has Harry Kane having a great season and they will look at him to lead the way down the back stretch. Kane is one of the leaders for the team and he is a goal away from getting 30 for the season.
Kane has scored nine goals in the last 11 EPL games and he has 19 goals in top flight play this year. The team won against Aston Villa on the road earlier in the season and they have won five in a row in this head to head matchup. Kane has scored over half the goals for the team over the last stretch of 12 games and the team comes in after a draw with Burnley.
Tottenham is in a tight battle and they are sixth on the league table and right there with Liverpool trailing Manchester City. Christian Benteke has been scoring in bunches as well and he had a hat trick against Queens Park and has scored seven in the last five games overall. The Spurs need this one and Aston Villa also is looking for points, as they are down near the bottom of the table and want to stay out of relegation.
Tottenham has done very well against Aston Villa in EPL play and that makes them the favorites in this matchup. Tottenham is right in line with where the team was last season, as they are just two points back of where they were at the same time. The Spurs have been nearly unbeatable to home this season and they have not lost at White Hart Lane since November.
Kane has been the most valuable player for the team this year and he has helped the team to 22 points and that is the most of anyone in the EPL. Tottenham is hanging on and while they likely can't catch Man City in the standings, they can try and cut it close. Tim Sherwood comes in after being the manager for part of last year and his run was short but a decently successful one.