Tottenham Hotspur vs Fulham Prediction: Hosts to triumph in entertaining London derby

Tottenham Hotspur host Fulham at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in a Premier League London derby on Sunday (13:30). The Lilywhites will hope to build on last weekend's 4-0 thrashing of Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, while the Cottagers are looking to bounce back from their 4-1 home defeat to Wolves.

Read on for my Tottenham Hotspur vs Fulham prediction, complete with all the latest team news and match odds.

Team News

Tottenham Hotspur are definitely without injured quartet Guglielmo Vicario, Micky van de Ven, Wilson Odobert and Richarlison, while Cristian Romero is touch and go after a recent toe problem.

Rodrigo Bentancur, meanwhile, continues to serve a domestic suspension.

James Maddison, Yves Bissmoua and Destiny Udogie all started Thursday's 2-2 draw with AS Roma in the Europa League on the bench but the trio should play from the off on Sunday.

Football Odds

Harrison Reed is out for Fulham after recently undergoing surgery on a troublesome knee, while Joachim Andersen and Jorge Cuenca have both been ruled out of the short trip to north London. Issa Diop is likely to replace Andersen in central defence.

Sander Berge missed last weekend's defeat but should be fit to return this week, with either Andreas Pereira or Sasa Lukic set to drop out.

Tottenham Hotspur vs Fulham Odds

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Tottenham are 8/11 to triumph in a third London derby of the season after already beating Brentford (3-1) and West Ham United (4-1) at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Spurs are given an implied win probability of 57.9%, while Fulham are 100/30, or a 23.1% chance, to return to west London with all three points.

The draw is priced at 100/30, both teams to score at 4/9, and over 2.5 total goals at 2/5.

Spurs striker Dominic Solanke (5/4) heads the anytime goalscorer market followed by teammate Son Heung-min (7/5), Will Lankshear (6/4) and Brennan Johnson (7/4), while Raul Jimenez (15/8) is first up for Fulham.

Match Result & Both Teams to Score - Tottenham Hotspur & Yes @ 13/8

Tottenham and BTTS has been a winning bet in three of their last four Premier League home games, while Fulham's last three defeats have seen the Cottagers get on the scoresheet. Marco Silva's side lost 3-2 at Manchester City on October 5, 3-1 at home to Aston Villa two weeks later, and 4-1 at Craven Cottage last weekend to Wolves.

Spurs have been scoring plenty of goals in November, netting 13 across five games against Aston Villa, Galatasaray, Ipswich Town, Man City and Roma, only failing to strike more than once - in their 2-1 home defeat to Ipswich.

The absence of Andersen makes Fulham even more vulnerable than they were in defeat to Wolves, so I'm expecting Sunday's hosts to score two or three in N17.

Fulgam are usually good for a goal, however, finding the net in all 11 Premier League games since losing 1-0 to Manchester United at Old Trafford on the opening day of the season. Spurs haven't kept a Premier League clean sheet at home since beating Everton 4-0 on August 24 and aren't helped by their own injury absentees in defence, notably Vicario and Van de Ven. Romero isn't a guaranteed starter, either.

A win for Ange Postecoglou's charges and both teams to score looks like the best bet on Sunday at 13/8.

Player to Receive a Card - Yves Bissouma (TOT) @ 11/5

With Bentancur out, the responsibility lies on Bissouma and Pape Matar Sarr to hold the midfield together, as they did in Manchester last weekend, to their credit.

However, both players were booked at the Etihad, with Bissouma receiving his card within the first minute. That was the Mali international's fourth caution in his last seven games for club and country, and he's on seven since the start of the season - six for Spurs (three in the Premier League, two in the Europa League, one in the Carabao Cup).

The 28-year-old has become a familiar name in referee notebooks since moving to England from France in the summer of 2018, picking up 27 yellows and one red across 112 Premier League appearances for Brighton & Hove Albion during a four-season stay before linking up with Spurs in 2022.

Bissouma received six yellows in 28 league outings in his maiden campaign for Tottenham before seeing 10 dished out to him in 28 appearances last season - one of them in the last meeting between Fulham and Spurs, a 3-0 victory for the Cottagers in March.

He's averaging 0.8 fouls per game this term and it wouldn't be a surprise to see him commit one or two on Sunday and earn himself another caution.

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