Defoe sits out Chelsea clash

Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is out of the Barclays Premier League clash against Chelsea as he is still recovering from his foot injury.

Alan Hutton also has been rehabilitating from a foot injury and the clash at White Hart Lane has come too soon for the Scotland full-back.

Ledley King’s knee should have recovered from Sunday’s win at Aston Villa, while Giovani dos Santos and Adel Taarabt have been loaned out.

Provisional squad: Gomes, Cudicini, Corluka, Chimbonda, Bale, Dawson, Woodgate, King, Assou-Ekotto, Zokora, Bentley, Huddlestone, Jenas, Lennon, Palacios, Modric, O’Hara, Pavlyuchenko, Bent, Keane, Campbell.