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Tuesday 8 January 2019 21:38, UK
London rivals Tottenham and Chelsea meet in a blockbuster Carabao Cup semi-final first leg at Wembley on Tuesday.
Mauricio Pochettino and Maurizio Sarri are both attempting to win the first major trophy of their managerial careers - they are the only current managers of top six teams yet to win any major honours.
Sarri's first two losses as Chelsea boss came at Wembley, in August's Community Shield and, after an 18-match unbeaten run, against Spurs on November 24.
In that game, Spurs scored twice in the opening 16 minutes and Sarri afterwards bemoaned his side's attitude.
He said on Monday that his team must match Spurs' desire before tactics can be taken into account.
He added: "We need to approach the match in another way, because we lost the match in the first 15 minutes. They were really more aggressive than us, more determined than us.
"Now we know very well if we approach the same there's no solution for us. I want to speak before about this, otherwise it's useless to speak about tactics."
Meanwhile, over the last 10 years since Jan 2009, Tottenham have played in six major semi-finals, but lost all four against teams from the same division. They have only beaten League One Sheffield Utd and then Championship club Burnley in that period.
Lucas Moura will be missing for Tottenham after picking up a knee injury in the 7-0 FA Cup win at Tranmere on Friday.
Erik Lamela has recovered from illness, but Eric Dier (appendicitis) and Victor Wanyama (knee) are still out along with Mousa Dembele (ankle) and Jan Vertonghen (groin).
Paulo Gazzaniga has played all of Spurs' domestic cup ties so far this season and is set to remain in goal.
Pedro, Willian (hamstring) and Olivier Giroud (ankle) could return from injury for Chelsea.
Mateo Kovacic may return after illness forced him to sit out Saturday's FA Cup win over Nottingham Forest but Ruben Loftus-Cheek (back) is out and Cesc Fabregas is closing on a move to Monaco.
I think both will go after the game and field full-strength sides. Pochettino has never won a trophy so it's massive for Spurs, far more important than it is for Chelsea. While it's hard sometimes to work out what Sarri will do, I think Eden Hazard will play. Getting close to him is halfway to stopping Chelsea, though I don't think they're in great shape at the moment. It'll be a physical match-up and it could be quite a bitty game but with Heung-Min Son, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen and Harry Kane, Tottenham will score and I'm backing them to edge this first leg.
CHARLIE PREDICTS: Spurs 2-1 Chelsea (8/1 with Sky Bet)