Spurs team news: Milner and Dunk out

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Albion could move up to sixth in the Premier League with a victory.

Charlie Hanson

2026-04-17T15:30+01:00

James Milner has made 19 Premier League appearances this campaign. 📸 by James Boardman.

Albion take on Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday as they look to make it six wins from seven in the Premier League.

The game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will kick off at 5.30pm.

Team news

Fabian Hurzeler confirmed in his press conference on Friday that James Milner will miss Saturday's game, having also been absent for our 2-0 win at Burnley last weekend.

Lewis Dunk will be serving the second of his two-match suspension for accumulating ten yellow cards, while Adam Webster and Stefanos Tzimas are long-term absentees.

Ben Davies, Guglielmo Vicario, Cristian Romero, Mohammed Kudus, James Madison, Dejan Kulusevski and Wilson Odobert are all missing for Saturday's hosts. Rodrigo Bentancur could return.

Their last line-up

Today’s starting XI! ✊

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— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) April 12, 2026

Tottenham suffered a 1-0 defeat last weekend to Sunderland. Nordi Mukiele grabbed the only goal of the game, pushing Spurs into the relegation zone.

Match facts

Tottenham are winless in their last three Premier League games against Brighton (D1 L2), having previously never gone more than once without a win against the Seagulls in the top-flight.

Albion have won two of their last four away league games against Spurs (L2), including a 4-1 victory last season. They’d only won one of their first nine visits between 1977 and 2020 (D2 L6).

Albion have scored 14 goals in their last five Premier League games against Spurs (2.8 per game), having scored just 10 in their first 12 against them in the competition (0.8 per game).

Tottenham are the only Premier League side without a win in 2026, winning none of 14 games (D5 L9). It’s their second-longest winless league run in their history, only having a longer stretch without a win between December 1934 and April 1935 (16 games).

Albion have won five of their last six Premier League matches (L1), as many wins as they’d had in their previous 20 combined. Since MD27, they’ve won more points than any other team (15).

Tottenham Hotspur have won just one of their last 26 Premier League matches played across January, February, March, April and May (D7 L18), and are winless in their last 21 games in those months since a 3-1 win over Southampton last April.

Albion have won their last three away Premier League games – they’ve never won four in a row in the top-flight. The Seagulls have also kept a clean sheet in all three wins, last winning four on the bounce on the road in the league without conceding in March 2011 in League One.

This will be Roberto De Zerbi’s first home Premier League game in charge of Spurs – only one of the previous 13 managers to take charge of Spurs have lost their first home game, though it was his predecessor Igor Tudor in February against Arsenal. Spurs have lost their last four home games, only losing five in a row once in their league history in February 1994.

Since his first start of his second spell at Albion on 7 January, only three players have created more chances in the Premier League than Pascal Gross (24), while he also ranks second for passes into the box (108) behind Bruno Fernandes (139), and the German is top for successful crosses (28).

Roberto De Zerbi’s first home Premier League game in charge of Brighton was against Tottenham in October 2022, losing 1-0. It’s the first time in Premier League history a manager’s first home game in charge of two clubs has been the same fixture.

Match officials