Tottenham midfielder Mousa Dembele is happy with his new partner in the team's engineroom.

Dembele believes he and Scott Parker form an excellent partnership in that area, despite Sandro's absence with a serious knee injury.

Dembele said: "Sandro did superbly but Scott is a different kind of player and he can be important as well. I have played a few games with him now and I like his style. It's not as though our standard has dropped, because Scott is at a very high level as well."