Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur v Blackburn Rovers Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp will be hoping his team can get their drive for a Champions League place back on track today. Photograph: Ian Kington/AFP/Getty Images Like an apple crumble with a biscuit base, it's crunch time at the top and bottom. Tottenham leapfrog Chelsea and Newcastle with a win to go fourth, while a three-goal winning margin would lift Blackburn out of the bottom three. In the 16 games since the turn of the year, these sides have picked up 20 and 17 points respectively, while only Wolves and Villa have been worse than Spurs since Fabio Capello handed in his notice with the FA. Blackburn, lumbered with a manager about as popular as steak tartare at a cows-only Christmas party, at least ended their losing run against Norwich last weekend. So this is a meeting of two teams not so much in a sticky patch as in a gargantuan mud-filled trench of discarded Pritt Stick and Sellotape. It could get messy. Tottenham: Friedel, Walker, Gallas, Kaboul, Rose, Lennon, Modric, Sandro, Bale, Van der Vaart, Adebayor. Subs: Cudicini, Saha, Giovani, Defoe, King, Livermore, Nelsen. So Younes Kaboul, Danny Rose, Aaron Lennon and Emmanuel Adebayor come in for Spurs, with Ledley King, Jermain Defoe on the bench and Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Scott Parker out through injury. Blackburn are unchanged from their win over the Canaries.