{"id":506199,"date":"2026-03-06T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506199\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:30:09","slug":"tottenham-team-confirmed-vs-crystal-palace-souza-starts-with-xavi-and-conor-gallagher-benched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506199\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham team confirmed vs Crystal Palace &#8211; Souza starts with Xavi and Conor Gallagher benched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the Tottenham team that Igor Tudor has named to take on Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>18:55, 05 Mar 2026Updated 18:58, 05 Mar 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Souza could make his home debut for Tottenham Hotspur against Newcastle United\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1_GettyImages-2260386537.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Souza makes his first start for Tottenham Hotspur against Crystal Palace\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Souza makes his first start for Tottenham Hotspur against Crystal Palace<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Igor Tudor has made four changes in naming the Tottenham team that he believes can overcome Crystal Palace n the Premier League on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Croatian is looking for his first <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/tottenham-hotspur-fc\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Spurs<\/a> victory and so are the club in the Premier League in 2026 and now <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/all-about\/igor-tudor\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Tudor<\/a> will complete his opening hat-trick of derbies with the challenge of Oliver Glasner&#8217;s Eagles. If Tottenham are unable to triumph then they will be setting an unwanted new club record Premier League streak of 11 matches without a victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Kevin Danso returns to the back four and the interim head coach has given 19-year-old Souza a first start for the club after telling football.london: &#8220;He was good, I saw something in him. He is there and waiting for his moment to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Mathys Tel once again made an impact from the bench and he starts on the left alongside Dominic Solanke and Randal Kolo Muani in a front Xavi Simons and Conor Gallagher drop to the bench with a midfield three of Joao Palhinha, Archie Gray and Pape Matar Sarr. Alternatively it could be a 3-4-3 with Palhinha in the backline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">FOLLOW OUR TOTTENHAM FB PAGE!<a aria-label=\" Link opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/COYSFootball.London#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><a aria-label=\"[object Object]Latest Spurs news, analysis and much more via our dedicated Facebook pageLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/COYSFootball.London#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Spurs news, analysis and much more via our dedicated Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the Tottenham team Tudor has gone with to face Palace:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Vicario, Porro, Danso, Van de Ven, Souza, Gray, Palhinha, Sarr; Kolo Muani, Solanke, Tel. Subs: Kinsky, Austin, Xavi, Bissouma, Richarlison, Gallagher, Olusesi, Kyerematen, Rowswell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the Tottenham team that Igor Tudor has named to take on Crystal Palace in the Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[85526,403,190859,99,224831,24312],"class_list":["post-506199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-conor-gallagher","tag-soccer","tag-souza","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-vs-crystal-palace","tag-xavi-simons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}