{"id":394776,"date":"2026-04-12T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394776\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:41:08","slug":"tottenham-confirmed-lineup-vs-sunderland-roberto-de-zerbis-first-xi-revealed-as-lucas-bergvall-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394776\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham confirmed lineup vs. Sunderland: Roberto De Zerbi’s first XI revealed as Lucas Bergvall starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roberto De Zerbi<\/a> has named his first Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> lineup to take on Sunderland<\/a> in Sunday’s Premier League clash at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n

The Italian has made a total of five changes to Igor Tudor’s final XI in the 3-0 loss to Nottingham Forest<\/a> before the international break, and his attacking selection is particularly intriguing.<\/p>\n

Indeed, De Zerbi has gone with three recognised centre-forwards in Richarlison, Randal Kolo Muani and Dominic Solanke, the former two of whom will likely feature out wide.<\/p>\n

Kolo Muani comes into the XI at the expense of Mathys Tel, who drops to the bench after an injury scare on international duty, while Xavi Simons<\/a> also has to make do with a place among the substitutes.<\/p>\n

Djed Spence, Kevin Danso, Pape Sarr and Guglielmo Vicario – out following hernia surgery – have also lost their places in the XI, as Destiny Udogie, Lucas Bergvall<\/a>, Conor Gallagher and Antonin Kinsky come in.<\/p>\n

Gallagher and Bergvall could comprise part of a three-man midfield with Archie Gray in a 4-3-3, or the latter could function at right-back, with Porro playing a more advanced role in a 4-4-2 shape.<\/p>\n

Sunderland make four changes for Tottenham Premier League clash
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Sunderland head coach Regis Le Bris has also rung the changes despite masterminding a 2-1 Tyne-Wear derby triumph over Newcastle United<\/a> last time out, making four alterations in total.<\/p>\n

Enzo Le Fee has been promoted back to the first XI, but in place of Chemsdine Talbi rather than Chris Rigg, as the 18-year-old starts alongside Brian Brobbey in attack once more.<\/p>\n

Le Bris has made a further three changes in defence, as first-choice goalkeeper Robin Roefs – back from a hamstring injury – returns over Melker Ellborg as the last line of defence.<\/p>\n

Nordi Mukiele and Reinildo Mandava are also preferred to Trai Hume and Lutsharel Geertruida out wide, but Daniel Ballard (hamstring) does not make the squad.<\/p>\n

Spurs will rise above West Ham United and climb out of the Premier League relegation zone<\/a> with all three points against Sunderland, who in turn could overtake both Fulham and Bournemouth to break into the top half with a victory.<\/p>\n

Tottenham lineup:\u00a0Kinsky; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Gray, Bergvall, Gallagher; Kolo Muani, Solanke, Richarlison<\/p>\n

Subs:\u00a0Austin, Dragusin, Danso, Palhinha, Simons, Bissouma, Tel, Spence, Sarr<\/p>\n

Sunderland lineup:\u00a0Roefs; Mukiele, Alderete, O’Nien, Reinildo; Sadiki, Xhaka, Diarra; Le Fee, Brobbey, Rigg<\/p>\n

Subs:\u00a0Ellborg, Hume, Geertruida, Cirkin, J. Jones, H. Jones, Talbi, Mayenda, Isidor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto De Zerbi has named his first Tottenham Hotspur lineup to take on Sunderland in Sunday’s Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4741,7572,1128,7335,3474,61,60,19147,1195,1102,3654,850,112,108194,75546,7462],"class_list":{"0":"post-394776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-epl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-olympics","17":"tag-premier-league","18":"tag-rugby","19":"tag-sport","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-mole","22":"tag-teams","23":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}