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Alasdair Gold & Rob Guest

Tottenham team confirmed vs Southampton: Ryan Mason hands Gareth Bale start, Harry Kane out

Ryan Mason has named his first Tottenham team since becoming interim head coach following Jose Mourinho's exit on Monday morning.

He has made three changes to the Tottenham side that drew at Everton in the last game.

Gareth Bale comes back into the team with Son Heung-min up front in the absence of Harry Kane.

The back three has been replaced by a back four with Toby Alderweireld and Eric Dier in the centre with Joe Rodon out of the squad entirely.

Confirmed as interim head coach on Tuesday morning following Mourinho's exit 24 hours earlier, the former Spurs midfielder faced the press a few hours later as he opened up on taking on the responsibility.

Asked by football.london about what his version of Tottenham Hotspur will look like, the 29-year-old said exactly what Spurs fans wanted to hear.

"I'd hope to think it's what a Tottenham Hotspur side would historically look like," he said. "I want us to be brave and aggressive, to play like Tottenham Hotspur.

"With such a short turnaround with games at the moment, the most important thing is to get the players in a right frame of mind, to give them some key principles in how we want to approach games of football and then hopefully as that goes on that can develop."

Here is the Tottenham team Mason has selected for tonight's match.

Tottenham XI: Lloris (C), Aurier, Alderweireld, Dier, Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Lo Celso, Ndombele, Bale, Lucas, Son.

Substitutes: Hart, Sanchez, Tanganga, Winks, Sissoko, Lamela, Dele, Bergwijn, Vinicius.

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