Wycombe v Tottenham: FA Cup fourth round – live!

3.05pm EST 15:05

18 min: Onyedinma latches on to Muskwe’s pass inside the box – but blazes over! And then, after Wycombe recycle possession, Lamela concedes a foul on halfway, lunging in on Curtis Thompson. Spurs are not having it all their own way.

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16 min: Josh Knight, another player on loan from Leicester, does brilliantly to calmly bring the ball out for Wycombe, with the centre-back jinking past a couple of Spurs players en route upfield to halfway. Wycombe work the ball to Muskwe and then Onyedinma’s cross forces Sanchez into a clearance. It culminates in a Spurs goal-kick, but another move that will do Wycombe’s confidence no harm.

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15 min: Wheeler picks out Ikpeazu but the Wycombe striker inadvertently upends Ben Davies, the only player to keep his place in the Spurs side.

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13 min: Bale shoots wide! McCarthy gifts the ball straight to Bale on the edge of the D, as a poor defensive header dropping into the Welshman’s path. Bale gets hold of it and then takes aim but a vicious effort dips wide of a post.

2.57pm EST 14:57

10 min: A loose pass runs to Muskwe, who then tries to release Ikpeazu but he overcooks it. Davinson Sanchez, one of 10 Spurs changes here, has not looked too at ease so far.

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8 min: Mourinho looks pretty glum. His team should have taken the lead via Bale but can now consider themselves fortunate not to be behind. After a slack start, Wycombe look determined to make life difficult. They’re looking long to Ikpeazu and Muskwe to hold up the ball. Wycombe will be encouraged.

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2.53pm EST 14:53

7 min: Brilliant stop by Joe Hart! Admiral Muskwe, a Zimbabwe international on loan from Leicester, rises highest at the front post to meet a delicious cross. Hart scrambles to his left to clear. It looked to be creeping in. From the resulting corner Hart has to be alert to prevent Joe Jacobson’s cross dipping inside the post. A couple of hairy moments for Tottenham.

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5 min: Wycombe earn a goal-kick after Spurs overcook a cross and a chance for the hosts to earn a touch of respite. Spurs were beginning to enjoy themselves. On the touchline Gareth Ainsworth is not best pleased with his side’s start.

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4 min: … Gareth Bale should score! Moura whips in a corner, it arrows into the six-yard box and Bale, left alone by the Wycombe defence, gets it all wrong. That’s a big let-off for Wycombe.

Gareth Bale heads wide. Photograph: Marc Atkins/Getty Images

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3 min: Winks drives away from Matt Bloomfield, powering beyond halfway and then looking for Lamela to his left. It runs wide to Lucas Moura, who wins a corner …

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2 min: … Lamela forces Wycombe into some last-gasp defending after Carlos Vinicius worked the ball into the Argentine.

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1 min: Fred Onyedinma has a crack at goal after Joe Hart’s skewed clearance lands at his feet. It was not the most convincing start by Spurs but now they bare their teeth …

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2.36pm EST 14:36

The managers have been talking pre-match, with José Mourinho, as he did before Spurs overcame Marine, telling his players the responsibility to deliver rests on their shoulders, not his. Gareth Ainsworth reveals he has shown his players clips of their 4-3 defeat at White Hart Lane in 2017 to remind his players that Spurs are not superhuman. Joe Jacobson, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Dom Gape and Scott Kashket remain from that side. “I played some of the goals from four years ago just to say: ‘Look, it can be done,’” says Ainsworth, wearing a Guns ‘N’ Roses face mask.

“Fingers crossed we can have a bit of luck as well. I can’t remember a better subs bench than Tottenham’s tonight. We won’t sit back. We want to go at them and show what we have done over the last four years since we played Tottenham and how we have grown as a team.” Mourinho says mentality will be key to deciding the tie. Teams from lower leagues but Premier League teams in difficulties, so you can consider this game a high risk,” says the Portuguese.

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Twenty years ago, Wycombe made it to the FA Cup semi-finals. They battled past Millwall, Grimsby and Wolves before overcoming Wimbledon – for whom now-Wycombe boss Ainsworth scored – on penalties. Then they beat Leicester in the quarter-finals, with Roy Essandoh striking an unlikely winner, before Liverpool eventually ended their extraordinary journey at Villa Park.

Wycombe Wanderers players celebrate their victory over Leicester City in the FA Cup sixth round match at Filbert Street in 2001 Photograph: David Davies/PA

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Tottenham are unbeaten in seven games and, while Wycombe’s form is not quite so splendid, they have won two of their past three matches. They are propping up the Championship and the club’s hierarchy view the league as the priority but how they would love to cause an upset. Chorley and Cheltenham went close to toppling Premier League opposition – but can Wycombe go one step better?

We were the last away team to score three goals at White Hart Lane in 2017, which is a real privilege for Wycombe Wanderers. It was a really historic moment for us. We were close that day, we didn’t quite finish the job, but at the end of the game there were some really big hitters on that pitch for Spurs, including Son Heung-min who got the winner.

1.57pm EST 13:57

Team news news: Gareth Bale gets a rare outing at Adams Park as Mourinho makes 10 changes, with Son Heung-min and Harry Kane taking pews on the bench. Carlos Vinicius, who enjoyed himself at Marine in the last round, gets the nod up front, while Harry Winks, Joe Hart and Japhet Tanganga also start. As for Wycombe, the evergreen Matt Bloomfield captains Gareth Ainsworth’s side. Adebayo Akinfenwa is among the substitutes.

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The teams!

Wycombe (4-4-2): Allsop; Grimmer, Knight, McCarthy, Jacobson; Wheeler, Thompson, Bloomfield, Onyedinma; Ikpeazu, Muskwe

Subs: Stockdale, Samuel, Pattison, Mehmeti, Adeniran, McCleary, Charles, Kashket, Akinfenwa

Tottenham (4-2-3-1): Hart; Tanganga, Sánchez, Alderweireld, Davies; Sissoko, Winks; Bale, Lamela, Lucas Moura; Carlos Vinicius

Subs: Gazzaniga, Aurier, Rodon, Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Ndombele, Bergwijn, Son, Kane

Referee: Jon Moss

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Preamble

Now, I know Frank Lampard’s departure from Stamford Bridge has caused a royal stir but, well, if Wycombe can send José Mourinho and Tottenham Hotspur packing in the FA Cup then we might just land on a tale that would give even a club legend like Lamps unceremoniously being shown the door a run for its money. Fair enough, Wycombe are not quite what they used to be. These days, just one league separates them and Spurs but, while Wycombe were taken over by an American lawyer last year, they are run on fumes compared with the financial muscle Mourinho is able to lean on. The last and only previous competitive meeting between these sides was a humdinger – Spurs won 4-3 in a fourth-round Cup match at White Hart Lane courtesy of a 97th-minute Son Heung-min winner, at a time when Gareth Ainsworth’s side were meddling in League Two – so hopefully we are set for another cracking tie. Ainsworth, as you will almost certainly know by now, is also the lead singer of the Cold Blooded Hearts, but Mourinho won’t be joining him for band practice any time soon. “I only feel sorry I cannot sing with him because I will destroy his music,” he said. Wild Thing v Mourinho: what more could you want?

Kick-off: 7.45pm (GMT)

Tottenham manager Mourinho warns Gareth Bale he ‘cannot give’ minutes

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