Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has revealed that he could be without a few key players for this weekend's north London derby.
The White Hart Lane outfit go into the clash with Arsenal in third place in the Premier League table and with every chance of securing Champions League football next season, with a 10-point gap back to the Gunners in fourth spot.
It is a healthy lead but they will have to do without several top-name stars for Sunday's trip to the Emirates Stadium.
Spurs looked tired in their FA Cup fifth round draw with Stevenage on Sunday and the prospect of playing another match back at home will hardly have enthused the former West Ham chief.
But they will next face an Arsenal side who were dumped out of the cup by Sunderland and who are scrapping for fourth place in the league.
Redknapp has revealed that Luka Modric, Emanuel Adebayor and Benoit Assou-Ekotto missed Sunday's draw due to a mixture of injury and illness.
Rafael van der Vaart and Sandro also missed the game at the Lamex Stadium and are doubts for next weekend.
Redknapp explained: "Benoit had a small operation at the start of the week so he wasn't available. He should be fit but we will have to see with Adebayor.
"He did his knee on Friday morning. He twisted it. We thought he might have opened his ligament up but it's not too bad.
"Luka had an unbelievable temperature. He was really ill this week. That left us short. Ledley King was on the bench and he wasn't fit."