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​Mourinho plans strong Tottenham side for Dinamo Zagreb; Lo Celso out

Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho is not planning to rotate too heavily against Dinamo Zagreb.

Spurs face a relatively straightforward round of 16 clash in the Europa League, with the first leg on Thursday.

While Giovani Lo Celso and Joe Rodon may miss the game, Mourinho has nearly everyone else available for selection.

"Gio is not ready but it's nothing to do with his previous important injury, from which he's totally recovered," Mourinho told reporters.

"But with his accumulation of work his feelings are not the best at the moment, a little bit of some back pain so he's had to stop working the way he was doing. So not for this match.

"Am I going to repeat the same team that played against Crystal Palace? No, I'm going to make a few changes.

"But the team is working very well, everybody is training hard, everybody is pushing to play, so for me it doesn't matter who is playing as our team is going to be strong."

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