I think Spurs will end up as our closest rivals these season. Conte usually has one big season before imploding and I think this season will be their best under him. They finished last season strongly, they play Conte’s way, they’ve backed Conte in the market and they appear to be fairly settled.
That said I hope the head to head matches don’t make much of a difference as I expect Spurs to cause us problems. They are well set up to play us, they defend well and counter effectively. Between Kane playing as a deep 10 and Son, Kulusevski and Richarlison they have players who can cause us real problems.
The test for Pep is how to set us up against a counter attacking side without Walker. If we can solve that and be in any way clinical we will win. It’s worth noting that despite having Haaland we are still not taking the right options in and around the opposition box so we need improve on that, once we do we’ll be pretty frightening.