The five decisions Antonio Conte has to make amid selection headache for Tottenham vs Burnley

Antonio Conte will need to make some choices regarding his starting XI when his Tottenham side travel to play Burnley on Wednesday.

Spurs will travel to Turf Moor for the third time this season, although their last trip didn't last long as the scheduled game was postponed due to the bad weather.

The Lilywhites did play Sean Dyche's side in the Carabao Cup and won 1-0 with a Lucas Moura goal back during Nuno Espirito Santo's reign.

A lot has changed since then but not Tottenham's hopes of getting three points from the fixture, especially after the solid display at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.

Just a few days after Spurs' trip North, they will again have to travel for their next match, which comes in the Premier League against Leeds.

Then a few days after that they face Middlesbrough away, in their next FA Cup tie, continuing the busy schedule.

Therefore Conte will inevitably have to make some rotations to his squad at some point, to prevent fatigue and injury, but the question is when?

The Italian will have a debate of whether to start his strongest team and then make changes if his side are a couple of goals up, or makes changes to start with and then have some players on the bench who can come on if needs be.

Ahead of the tie, takes a look at the decisions Conte will have to make.

There isn't likely to be many defensive deicisons to make for the Tottenham boss, after the return of Eric Dier completed his strongest back three alongside Cristian Romero and Ben Davies.

Japhet Tanganga could still be unavailable due to injury, leaving Davinson Sanchez and Joe Rodon as the other defensive options.

With the latter not being given much game time and the Colombian failing to consistently impress under Conte, he may decide to