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Tottenham Hotspur v Fulham
Premier League Match Day 13 25_26 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Saturday 29th November 2025 KO: 20:00
Referee:
Stuart Attwell (Warwickshire)
Live on Sky Sports
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Fulham visit Tottenham Hotspur in Saturday night's Premier League London derby.
The Cottagers came out on the right side of a 1-0 scoreline against Sunderland last weekend while Spurs were on the wrong end of an eight-goal extravaganza with Paris Saint-Germain in midweek.
Fulham head across the capital still waiting for their first away success of the season.
Five of the Cottagers' six Premier League away games in 2025-26 have ended in defeat - the one partially pleasing result being a 1-1 draw at Brighton & Hove Albion on the opening weekend - but home comforts are saving Marco Silva's bacon.
Fulham left it late to put another dent in Sunderland's European aspirations last week, triumphing in the dying embers courtesy of a Raul Jimenez toe-poke, which lifted the 15th-placed Cottagers three points above the bottom three.
The one-goal beating of the Black Cats continued a scoring trend for Silva's side; four of the visitors' last five Premier League matches has seen just one team find the back of the net, including each of their last three in the top flight.
Both teams did score in the last Spurs vs. Fulham game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - a 1-1 draw in December 2024 - but the Cottagers then triumphed 2-0 on home soil in March to extend their unbeaten run against their London rivals to three Premier League games.
Shipping goal after goal since the international break came to an end, Tottenham have conceded once every 20 minutes on average over their last two games of football, during which Arsenal and PSG have run riot against the leaky Europa League holders.
Thomas Frank's men did little wrong on the attacking front at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday evening, but they were outgunned by a Vitinha-inspired PSG side, as the Portuguese midfielder's hat-trick propelled the Champions League winners to a tremendous 5-3 victory.
Spurs' showing in the French capital was still a vast improvement on their previous Premier League affair - the 4-1 North London derby humbling at the hands of Arsenal - but four losses and just one win from their last six games paints a bleak picture indeed.
However, the ninth-placed hosts are only three points adrift of the top four in the Premier League table, and for all of the justified concerns about their build-up play - or lack of - 10 goals in their last four matches is nothing to be scoffed at.
Tottenham continue to fall flat in front of their own fans, though, as the Lilywhites have the second-worst home record in the 2025-26 Premier League season with just five points from six games on their own patch - only basement team Wolverhampton Wanderers (1) have performed worse on familiar territory.
Wolves are the sole side with a lower home points total than Tottenham
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Fulham have won two of their last three Premier League games against Spurs (D1), as many as they had in their previous 23 against them (D6 L15).
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After winning eight of their nine Premier League games against Fulham between 2013 and 2023 (D1), Spurs are now winless in their last three against the Cottagers (D1 L2).
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No side have earned fewer away points than Fulham in the Premier League this season (1), while only Wolves (1) have earned fewer at home than Spurs (5). The Cottagers have lost their last five on the road in the Premier League, last having a longer run between January and April 2019 (7).
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Having been involved in five goals in his first six Premier League games against Spurs (4 goals, 1 assist), Fulham’s Raúl Jiménez hasn’t scored or assisted in any of his last six against them.
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Richarlison has scored 16 goals in his last 22 Premier League starts for Spurs, netting in his last two against Man Utd and Arsenal. However, he’s never scored in eight appearances against Fulham in the competition, only facing his current side and Aston Villa more without scoring (9 each).
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Tottenham have lost 1-0 against Chelsea and 4-1 against Arsenal in their last two league London derbies. They’ve not lost three in a row in the same campaign since September/October 2021 (a run of four).
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Of the 17 ever present sides across the two seasons, none have won fewer home games (3), lost more home games (9) or earned fewer home points (12) in 2025 than Tottenham Hotspur. They haven’t lost 10 home league games in a single calendar year since 2003 (10).
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Tottenham have overperformed their expected goals more than any other side in the Premier League this season, netting almost nine goals more than their xG suggests (20 goals, 11.2 xG). Their 0.07 against Arsenal last time out was their lowest xG in a Premier League game since September 2021 (0.06 v Crystal Palace).
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Tottenham have conceded seven goals in their three Premier League games in November, as many as they had in their nine games across August, September and October combined.
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Though they rank third (behind Wolves 39 and Chelsea 31) for lineup changes in the Premier League this season (29), only Everton (19) have used fewer different players than Tottenham this term (20).
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Source Ben Knapton at SportsMole/BBCSports