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Saturday 18th August 3pm
Premier League
Wembley Stadium
The repeated campaign opening resulted in the same 3 points and we're off the mark at the first time of asking.
Now we face a side from Fulham in our temporary accommodation of Wembley in the second match.
Hopefully history won't repeat itself this time and we can take something out of this game.
An improved performance would be nice too, as a World Cup weary squad struggled at St James' Park.
This will be Fulham's second match in London in this season, as they return to life in the Premier League.
They've spent four years in the Championship, since their disastrous 2013/14 campaign.
Martin Jol's time at the club slowly saw their results get worse and his sacking didn't help to steady things.
Rene Meulensteen took over and made things worse, before he too was replaced.
Felix Magath finished them off and then had a torrid time in the Championship, too.
Slavisa Jokanovic was brought in to bring them back into the top-flight in December of 2015.
Kit Symons had been struggling badly and another relegation was on the cards.
The Yugoslavian international was already familiar with the Southeast of England.
He'd played for Chelsea and had managed Watford, taking the Hornets into the Premier League earlier that year.
A contract issue saw him leave Vicarage Road in the off-season, though.
Jokanovic turned their fortunes around fairly quickly, avoiding the drop in his first year and then looking up.
His first full season saw them finish in 6th place, resulting in a play-off defeat to Reading.
His second saw them narrowly missing out on automatic promotion, but taking 3rd place comfortably.
Wins over Derby and Villa sealed their place in the Premier League and another trip to Wembley.
Fulham have spent quite a lot of money this summer and brought in a whole new team of players.
Some will see this move as ambitious and hungry, while others will question the impact on the squad.
Time will tell whether it was the right thing to do, but we may benefit while they bed in.
Crystal Palace were happy to do so on Saturday.
No equivalent fixtures last season, of course, but we have faced them under their current manager.
The FA Cup 5th round of the 16/17 season saw us meet at Craven Cottage about a year and a half ago.
Here are the highlights:
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No updates to our injury news at the moment, but Son will miss out due to his Asian Games participation.
He's flown out to Malaysia and will probably be missing for several weeks.
Neither side has any suspensions.
Lineups for each side's last league game:
Spurs: Lloris; Aurier, Sanchez, Vertonghen, Davies; Dier, Sissoko, Eriksen, Alli; Moura, Kane.
Subs: Vorm, Walker-Peters, Alderweireld, Dembele, Amos, Son, Llorente.
Fulham: Fabri; Christie, Chambers, Le Marchand, Bryan; Cairney, McDonald, Seri; Schurrle, Mitrovic, Sessegnon.
Subs: Rico, Fosu-Mensah, Kebano, Johansen, Vietto, Cisse, Kamara.
Referee: Anthony Taylor. Was the official for the aforementioned Chelsea game...
TV: Not televised.
We did enough to take the points in Newcastle, but was it enough to keep the same team starting?
Would you change any of the starting XI or perhaps just the system or formation?
Who should take Son's place on the bench?
