Ange Postecoglou will have another difficult decision to make when Tottenham plays again on Sunday after experiencing a selection headache against Wolves the previous time around. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will host Aston Villa on Saturday, and after strong beginnings to the season, both teams are in the running for a top-four finish. This makes for an exciting encounter.

Due to injuries, Spurs will be without James Maddison and Micky van de Ven once more. Cristian Romero will also be missing since he is serving the second of a three-match ban.Midfielder Yves Bissouma is another player who will miss the Villans game due to suspension.

Rodrigo Bentancur could be in a position to start Tottenham's game against Aston Villa on Sunday

The Mali international will miss Sunday’s match after receiving his fifth yellow card of the year during the team’s 2-1 loss to Wolves before the international break. Due to this, Postecoglou is without two of his three first-choice midfield players. With Sunday afternoon approaching, the Tottenham player will need to make a crucial decision in the middle of the pitch.

Postecoglou needs to make sure that his midfield produces more than it did at Molineux.Tottenham suffered greatly after Maddison’s injury because they were left without a player who could help connect the midfield with the attack and create opportunities in the final third.

Even though Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg’s inclusion in the starting lineup was probably expected following his excellent performance in the five-day prior home loss to Chelsea, Tottenham was left without a true forward force and appeared to be playing more defensively as a result.

Given that he is the man best equipped to fill Maddison’s role, Giovani Lo Celso might have helped ease the situation, but he was benched, and Rodrigo Bentancur’s injury-related lengthy layoff prevented him from starting the game. After that loss in the West Midlands fifteen days ago, and with the Uruguayan playing more for his nation during the most recent international break,

Given the severity of his ACL injury at Leicester City, Spurs have been gradually increasing Bentancur’s playing time with spot appearances off the bench. In their 4-1 loss to Chelsea, for example, he played for almost 40 minutes because of the added time. Bentancur will never be rushed back into the team.Bentancur could be close enough to return to the starting lineup for Tottenham shortly after adding in his playing time for Uruguay against Argentina last week and maybe some more against Bolivia on Tuesday night.

The midfielder, who revealed in an interview with Sport 890 radio station in Uruguay three weeks ago that his recuperation went well and that he was prepared to return before the date Spurs had scheduled, had been itching to play more for quite some time.

“I experienced no pain while I healed. Throughout the process, the knee gained loads and responded to all of the stimuli quite effectively. “They only drained me of fluids three times,” he clarified.

“Over the past two months, my subconscious has been winning me over since I was eager to play. They asked you to stay away for nearly nine months and didn’t want me to come back until November 21 in order to prevent relapses.”

Bentancur, who was such a key player in Tottenham’s midfield before his injury, may once again be a game-changer for the Lilywhites after helping the side earn a Champions League berth and contributing numerous goals. That will all change, though, once he starts games and gets more playing time.

That might be the case on Sunday against Aston Villa, especially with Bissouma spectating from the stands. Pape Matar Sarr, who has been a regular since missing out on the opening day at Brentford, is one player who appears certain to start.

Only once in their Tottenham careers have Bentancur and Sarr played together, and that was in the closing moments of the team’s 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace, following the former’s return from an almost nine-month absence from the pitch. Postecoglou has the opportunity to start a new Tottenham combination if both players start in Sunday’s home match against Aston Villa. The two did not start in the same lineup in the previous season, and Bentancur has replaced Sarr off the bench in the last two games.

If Lo Celso is selected to start in the more advanced midfield role with the pair behind him, it will undoubtedly be a very different midfield lineup. If not, Sarr and one of Hojbjerg or Oliver Skipp might be significantly deeper in the game, with Bentancur serving as the attack-minded midfielder.

While Bentancur and Hojbjerg have a good understanding and have played together frequently in Antonio Conte’s Tottenham team, this is essentially a new midfield partnership as the only time the two have played as a trio with Sarr coming in the final minutes of the Crystal Palace game. The unavailability of Maddison and Bissouma in in this weekend’s match against Aston Villa may open the door for a fresh midfield combination and Bentancur’s first Spurs start since February.