It’s early in the season, but Tottenham Hotspur looks to be back. Through the first two Matchweeks of the 2025-26 Premier League season, only three teams have managed the maximum six points: Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs.
While the Gunners and Reds will face each other this week, Tottenham has a solid chance to go top of the table alone when it faces Bournemouth on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET (3 p.m. local).
Spurs are -145 favorites to win and +320 to draw at DraftKings Sportsbook. The Cherries are +340 on the Moneyline.
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Bournemouth prediction, pick
I don’t want to overreact to Tottenham’s 2-0 away win over Manchester City in Matchweek 2, especially given that the Blues produced better chances, winning the expected-goal battle 1.6 to 1.1. Spurs made some improvements to their roster over the summer transfer window, bringing in Mohammed Kudus from West Ham, as well as João Palinha on loan from Bayern Münich, but they suffered some losses as well. Club legend Son Heung-min departed Europe entirely, signing with the MLS’ Los Angeles FC, and midfielder James Maddison suffered a torn ACL. Spurs’ roster might be better, as Kudus is better than Son at this stage in their respective careers, but it didn’t go from a bottom-four to a top-four side. At least Tottenham is expected to get left-back Destiny Udogie back from injury prior to tomorrow’s match.
Bournemouth survived relegation in 2022-23 before climbing three places in each of the following two seasons. Now fully established as a perennial top-flight club — they have twice-as-high odds to finish in the top six than to suffer the drop — the Cherries saw their roster get worse in the summer window, selling 237.26 million Euros’ worth of players while only spending 121.6 million Euros. Losing arguably the division’s best left-back, Milos Kerkez, to Liverpool, will hurt, as will Dean Huijsen’s transfer to Real Madrid and Ilya Zabarnyi’s move to Paris Saint-Germain. With three of its regular back four gone, as well as goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, it would be a surprise if Bournemouth can sustain a defense that allowed just 46 goals last season, tied for the sixth-lowest in the Premier League. So far, the Cherries have allowed four, all of which came in a loss to Liverpool on the opening day.
It won’t be easy for Spurs to make it three wins from three, as Bournemouth was just two minutes and stoppage time away from spoiling the Reds’ championship party behind a brilliant Antoine Semenyo brace. The Ghanaian attacking midfielder, one of the more well-rounded players in the division, is playing with full confidence and has been involved in all three of the Cherries’ goals. He’ll put some pressure on a Tottenham back line that allowed the fifth-most goals in the Premier League last season that mostly added young prospects at the position. Likewise, Semenyo’s countryman Kudus should partner with the resurgent Richarlison to test new Bournemouth keeper Ðorďe Petrović, a former Chelsea man who’s saved just seven of the 11 shots he’s faced this season. New signings Bafodé Diakité and Adrien Truffert have looked solid in the first two games, but they’ll need time to develop chemistry.
Continuity is key, and though the Cherries have more continuity in the attack and aren’t learning a new manager’s tactics, breaking in a new defense on the fly in the Premier League is a massive challenge. Spurs have looked really good under new manager Thomas Frank, who guided Brentford to a 10th-place finish last season, and his tactics have fit the team well so far. Tottenham will allow its first goal of the season to Semenyo, but it’ll be the other Ghanaian leading his team to a high-scoring victory.
