Tottenham Hotspur v Brighton: FA Cup fourth round – live!

Is this a 4-5-1? Hard to say. On the team sheet Maupay is in the middle, so maybe it’s a 4-6-0. The main thing is that Yves Bissouma, probably Brighton’s best player, is back from playing for Mali in the Africa Cup of Nations.

Sanchez; Lamptey, Cucurella, Webster, Dunk; Bissouma, Gross, Lallana, Moder, March; Maupay.

Subs: Steele, McGill, Alzate, Duffy, Calcedo, Veltman, Offiah, Ferguson, Welbeck.

It looks like a 3-4-3. Heung-Min Son is back after four games out with injury, and both the new recruits from Juventus, the winger Dejan Kulusevski and midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur, are on the bench.

Lloris; Romero, Sanchez, Davies; Royal, Winks, Hojbjerg, Reguilon; Lucas, Kane, Son.

Subs: Gollini, Doherty, Sessegnon, Rodon, White, Bentancur, Kulusevski, Bergwijn, Scarlett.

Evening everyone and welcome to the FA Cup fourth-round tie that struck ITV’s bosses as Saturday prime-time material. But only for their fourth channel.Whether they were right, time will tell, but it does look like an entertaining game. And it must have a good chance of going to penalties, given Brighton’s ability to grab a draw from the jaws of almost anything.

Are you old enough to remember when Spurs were a cup team? In the 11 years up to 1991, they reached four FA Cup finals and won three of them. It was as if the song Chas and Dave wrote for them in 1981 – Ossie’s going to Wembley, his knees have gone all trembly – worked its magic for a whole decade. Then they turned into Tim Henman: in the 30 full seasons since that last triumph, they’ve made eight semi-finals and lost the lot of them. For the past three years they haven’t even reached the quarters, and these days they’re capable of going out of a tournament on a technicality.

Still, that should add fuel to the fire of Antonio Conte’s intensity tonight. Kick-off is at 8pm, so I’ll be back soon after 7 with the teams.