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Alasdair Gold & Rob Guest

Why Toby Alderweireld and Serge Aurier are not in Jose Mourinho's Tottenham squad vs Aston Villa

Jose Mourinho has made a number of alterations to his Tottenham team for this evening's Premier League game away at Aston Villa.

Following the disastrous defeats against Arsenal and Dinamo Zagreb over the past week, the Spurs head coach was always going to switch things about.

Japhet Tanganga and Joe Rodon are two of the players to benefit as they both start in defence, with Giovani Lo Celso and Carlos Vinicius also coming into the side from the off.

Youngsters Alfie Devine and Dane Scarlett are also included on the bench for the game at Villa Park as the likes of Harry Winks and Matt Doherty have missed out altogether.

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Toby Alderweireld and Serge Aurier are also not part of the 20-man squad in the Midlands, thus seeing a number of fans take to social media in the process to question why exactly they aren't involved.

Well, Tottenham have confirmed on the club's Twitter page that the experienced duo are not part of Mourinho's plans this evening due to illness.

football.london understands that both will still be well enough to represent their respective countries on international duty next week.

Son Heung-min once again misses out this evening due to the hamstring injury he sustained away at Arsenal last Sunday.

The Korea Football Association confirmed on Sunday afternoon that the 28-year-old is no longer part of their squad for Thursday's friendly against Japan.

Son will be hoping to be back in time for Spurs' trip to Newcastle United in their first game after the international break.

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