Also got this season's squad but injury & suspension unavailability from 2024-25 & 2023-24

Tottenham's 2025-26 squad unavailability due to injury & suspension:

Antonín Kinský, Mathys Tel and Pape Matar Sarr are the only first team players not to be unavailable due to injury this season

Despite the hope for an instant manager bounce, the sad truth is that the level of technical ability available is worryingly low and has been on the decline for too long.

Average Passes per Sequence:

2023/2024: 4.49
2024/2025: 3.94
2025/2026: 3.33
Sunderland: 3.53

This season 43% of Vicario's passes per game have gone long, a huge increase to what we saw under Ange (19%).

However, De Zerbi is not afraid to mix it up; Gerónimo Rulli was averaging 31% long, I'm hoping that this balance will suit both Vic & Kinsky.

Interested to see how De Zerbi will approach attacking set pieces:

65% (26) of our goals this season have come from open play situations, vs 76% avg since 2014-15.

It's also the trend for the Premier League (69% open play vs 72% avg), however we are impressively under-indexing.

De Zerbi persists on minimal touches, and highlights how majority of teams go man to man. Assuming that we will be building up more from the back, I was interested to know how pass accuracy and volume within the defensive 1/3 of our players compares vs the rest of the league.

Despite being out since January, Mohammed Kudus still remains #2 this season for passes into the penalty area...

Xavi Simons didn't start any of Tudor's last 3 remaining Premier League games, but for me De Zerbi needs to get the best out of both for us to stay up.

Impressive that if De Zerbi was the direction the club wanted to go last summer, we proceeded to hire and recruit to a complete contrast of playing style under Frank.

Our 2nd highest midfield progresser is Palhinha, and does £35M Gallagher even start?

Mess from the board.

Disagree with De Zerbi for obvious reasons, and I didn't think throwing another defensive minded / 'Prem Proven' coach (such as Dyche) would have been the right move either.

Lack of open play goals/tactics + reliance on set pieces has been our downfall - originating from Frank's 'Defensive 1st' .

For context the number of players available in 2026 for every match day squad:

Leeds United: 8
Nottingham Forest: 8
West Ham United: 9

Just 4 Tottenham players have been available in every Premier League match day squad for 2026:
- Guglielmo Vicario
- Archie Gray
- Mathys Tel
- Randal Kolo Muani

Scraping the barrel, but one of the only positives I can think of is that Mohammed Kudus should be available after the international break.

Archie Gray made some really impressive switches of play to Tel, but we practically offered nothing on the right hand side.

Arguably Archie Gray's best performance in a Tottenham shirt, didn't look out of place against a strong Atletico side, he recorded 36 touches in the midfield 1/3, his 2nd highest match tally of the season

Some performance from Xavi Simons:
- 2 goals
- 77 touches (most of any player)
- 8 progressive passes (most of any player)
- 4 shot creating actions (most of any player)

50

for context, 12 vs Arsenal away was our lowest...

115 vs Brighton (A) early in the season

49 completed passes in the attacking 1/3 vs Liverpool is our highest tally under Igor Tudor (avg has been 26 per game).

Despite coming on in the 76th minute, Callum Olusesi ranked #2 among Tottenham players for completed passes into the the attacking 1/3 from the midfield 1/3.

Back from my break so will be posting more frequently now.

My streamlit app is updated with the last few weeks of data.

Let me know if you spot any issues, cheers!

Would have posted this many weeks ago if that was the case

Fortunately wasn’t able to watch the game.

I’m having a break for a few weeks so won’t be posting any of my usual stuff until mid March

To add a stat around our efficiency from long throw-ins:

Despite ranking 5th in the league for volume of throw-ins into the box (78), we are yet to score a single goal from them.

Viz credit from @gualanodavide.bsky.social's impressive set piece-app: setpiecesanalysis.streamlit.app

"I like to be positive, I like to play offensive football."

One thing I hope we can leave behind in the Frank era is the amount of time we delayed from long throw-ins.

Under Frank we were the 5th slowest in the league at restarting play from throw-ins

Let me know your thoughts on this different style of post, any specific players & stats you would like to see in the future.

Irow could count himself unlucky not to feature against Burnley, having been on the bench and featuring in every single game since joining.

Despite that, it's great to see another academy graduate performing on loan.

Hopefully we'll get to see him play in the Fifth Round.

Despite it being his first loan spell in his career, it looks like he has taken to League One quickly, with some very impressive attacking stats; within League One he ranks 9th for goals per 90 (among all players) and is hitting the target with 50% of his shots (4 from 8).

Irow scored twice on his debut; showcasing both the ability of a clinical tap in, but also a very impressive curling finish from the edge of the box.

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It is the 19 year old's first experience of first team football, having gone on loan to Mansfield in January until the end of the season.

The right footed attacker operates across the front 3, and has already been played on the left in a 4-2-3-1 and a #10 in a 3-4-2-1 system.

Mansfield's FA Cup shock win over Burnley means there could be an opportunity to see Tottenham loanee Oliver Irow in the Fifth Round. (Thread)

Data via Respo Vision