{"id":775808,"date":"2026-09-19T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775808\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:26:19","slug":"spurs-v-aston-villa-team-news-porro-manzambi-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775808\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs v Aston Villa team news: Porro + Manzambi start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two underachieving sides without a Premier League win between them this season meet in the Saturday lunchtime kick-off in north London.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa gets underway at 12:30 BST.<\/p>\n<p>Not only have these clubs yet to taste victory in 2026\/27, but they\u2019ve also scored just one goal between them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Save-Your-FPL-Season-Free-Trial-Graphic-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177851 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TEAM NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Porro returns from injury today, taking the place of Archie Gray at right-back.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the only change that Spurs boss Roberto De Zerbi has made from the 0-0 draw with Everton last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>James Maddison and Mohammed Kudus are among the substitutes for the Lilywhites.<\/p>\n<p>Yohan Manzambi gets his first Premier League start for Aston Villa as Unai Emery makes two changes from the Gameweek 4 defeat to Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Joao Gomes is also back from suspension to start in the engine room.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a34.5m FPL midfielder George Hemmings and Ross Barkley make way.<\/p>\n<p>Matty Cash returned from injury in the EFL Cup in midweek but, like then, he\u2019s only among the substitutes this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>LINE-UPS<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur XI: Kinsky, Porro, van Hecke, van de Ven, Robertson, Tonali, Bentancur, Savio, Fernandes, Marmoush, Solanke.<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Dubravka, Tosin, Senesi, Gallagher, Maddison, Udogie, Gray, Bergvall, Kudus.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa XI: Suzuki, Wan-Bissaka, Mings, Lindelof, Ruggeri, Joao Gomes, Kamara, McGinn, Buendia, Manzambi, Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Wright, Cash, Harwood-Bellis, Barkley, Garnacho, Abraham, Mbaye, Bogarde, Hemmings.<\/p>\n<p>LIVE GAMEWEEK 5 PAGE + MATCH CENTRE<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-491-1024x585.png\" alt=\"Spurs v Aston Villa team news: Porro + Manzambi start\" class=\"wp-image-177853 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>You can follow all the day\u2019s action via the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/fpl\/live-gameweek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Gameweek page<\/a>, which you can find in the all-new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/fpl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0FPL Toolkit section.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here you can track the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DefCon) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s also the all-new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/fpl\/fixtures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match Centre<\/a>\u00a0to explore. Here, you\u2019ll find stats, heatmaps, rolling xG graphs and more on every Premier League fixture.<\/p>\n<p>A lot is free for all, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chief Scout Members<\/a>\u00a0getting full access.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two underachieving sides without a Premier League win between them this season meet in the Saturday lunchtime kick-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[255787,59,101,74658,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aston-villa-team-news","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-spurs-team-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}