Roberto De Zerbi made one change to the team that started at Chelsea, naming Djed Spence in Tottenham's starting XI as the club hosted Everton in the Premier League finale on 2026-05-24 with kick-off at 4pm.
Tottenham confirmed the selections in a club statement: "We can now confirm the line-ups for this afternoon's Premier League finale against Everton (kick-off 4pm)." De Zerbi's single alteration saw Spence replace Randal Kolo Muani in the side that will seek a result on the final day.
The numbers underline the clarification: 11 players started for Tottenham and the matchday bench contained nine substitutes. Tottenham's starting XI was Kinsky, Danso, Palhinha, Richarlison, Tel, Udogie, Gallagher, Pedro Porro, Spence, Bentancur and van de Ven. Their named substitutes were Vicario, Dragusin, Bissouma, Maddison, Gray, Bergvall, Solanke, Sarr and Kolo Muani.
Everton's manager named his own eleven: Pickford, O'Brien, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko, Iroegbunam, Garner, Rohl, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye and Barry, with Travers, McNeil, Beto, George, Dibling, Coleman, Alcaraz, Aznou and Armstrong among the substitutes.
Dominic Solanke returned to the Tottenham matchday squad after a three-game absence with a hamstring issue and was included among the substitutes in place of Souza. His availability on the bench ends a short spell out, but the decision to keep him among the replacements rather than in the starting XI is one of the clearer selection choices De Zerbi made for this final-day fixture.
The match was described as Tottenham hosting Everton in the Premier League final day by national coverage, setting the scene for a high-stakes afternoon. The team sheets arrive with context: Tottenham were involved in a final-day survival scenario, with relegation fate tied to the result and the outcome elsewhere — either Tottenham or West Ham would take the third relegation place, while Wolves and Burnley had already gone down and places in European competition were being finalised.
The tension in De Zerbi's team sheet is straightforward. Bringing Spence in for Kolo Muani alters the balance on the right side of the attack and leaves a recent goals option, Solanke, warming up the bench after his hamstring lay-off. De Zerbi has trimmed only one name from the Chelsea line-up, but that single change shifts who will carry the initiative in the wide areas and who is available to finish chances late in the game.
The selection choices sharpen the question every supporter wants answered now: will De Zerbi's tweak and Solanke's return from injury be enough to secure the points Tottenham need to stay up? The answer will come on the field at 4pm, and the names on the teamsheet make clear which parts of the squad De Zerbi trusts to deliver it.
