Premier League preview: Fulham v Tottenham

29 November 2012 15:28

Clint Dempsey will aim to show Fulham what they are missing when he and his new Tottenham team-mates travel across London on Saturday.

Dempsey and Moussa Dembele left Fulham at the end of the European summer transfer window to join Tottenham and will face their former team-mates for the first time on Saturday.

In the lead-up to the London derby, Dempsey has claimed he would have stayed at Craven Cottage if Fulham had appreciated him enough.

"If you always felt valued and appreciated enough, I don't think you'd ever leave but it came to a point where I didn't feel valued and appreciated," Dempsey told the London Evening Standard.

"Not by the fans but by other situations.

"That's just the way things went.

"The situation is difficult because things go on behind the scenes that the fans don't really know about.

"The fans were great to me, the chairman (Mohamed Fayed) was great to me but it got the point where I wanted to keep going and try to further my career."

Tottenham will head to Fulham on the back of successive English Premier League victories having knocked off West Ham 3-1 and Liverpool 2-1 in their most recent matches.

The back-to-back wins have helped turn Tottenham's form around after four consecutive defeats to begin November.

By contrast, Martin Jol's Fulham have not won in six games, but did manage a 0-0 draw away to Chelsea in midweek despite having only 38 percent possession.

Jol will still be missing Brede Hangeland as the towering Norwegian defender completes his three-match suspension against Tottenham.

In some good news for Jol, however, Kieran Richardson could be set for a return after a hamstring problem, although Bryan Ruiz and Alexander Kacaniklic will remain on the sidelines with similar injuries.

For Tottenham, Scott Parker, Younes Kaboul, Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Steven Caulker have yet to recover from injury.