Tottenham fullback Kyle Walker knows Crystal Palace winger Andros Townsend will be up for their reunion this weekend.

Ahead of a potential battle with his former team-mate, Walker has explained that it'll take a team effort to stifle Andros and his Eagles cohorts over the 90 minutes.

“I think we all know the qualities that Andros has got," he told the Spurs website. “I played with him here for a while and then with England at international level so we all know what he can do. He's a fantastic dribbler, a good ball carrier and he can shoot with either foot so he's a danger man for them but hopefully we can deal with him as a team.

“It's difficult to defend against his style. Whether he's playing on my side or on the other side, your centre-midfielder has to come across and try to cut off that space if he's going to come in and shoot.

“If he's doing it on his stronger foot, that would be on the left-hand side but even his right foot is deadly which he's proved with England and also for Newcastle so it's something that we have to take into consideration as a team and try to defend against as best we can.

“Hopefully I can get him running back the other way and make him do the things he doesn't want to do but it's not just me against him – as a team we want to put him on the back foot, we don't want to play to his strengths, we need to take him the other way and make him work defensively."