​English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur’s Micky van de Ven (L) and Chelsea’s Robert Sanchez (R) stand together during an official event in front of the Sydney Opera House on July 27, 2026. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP via Getty Images) / — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE — | AFP via Getty Images For the second preseason friendly of the summer tour, Chelsea will take on customary punching bags Tottenham Hotspur tomorrow night in Sydney, which will be the last bit of action for us in Australia before moving on to the Southeast Asia portion of the tour.Spurs are of course familiar foes source of three points in the Premier League, and that will add an extra bit of spice to this preseason friendly. As Josh Acheampong put it, “there are no friendlies” when it comes to Tottenham.That said, this is still just a friendly, for both teams. The main focus is fitness, avoiding injuries, and molding the team in Xabi Alonso’s image. The manager was decently happy with the 6-4 goalfest in our first friendly, against A-League side Western Sydney Wanderers, but he also saw a lot of familiar failings, which he’d want us to work on as much as possible.“There were moments that we were struggling to find solutions, and we need to have this. The positives are that we corrected them, but there were moments that the game management is something that we can learn from today. […] You need to have this game intelligence to do the things. And we will need to do it quick, because the competition is in just a month, and we want to get ready for that. But we need to manage that. That’s so important in football nowadays.”-Xabi Alonso; source: ESPNAnd Spurs are likely to provide a tougher challenge in every regard than WSW.Date / Time: Saturday, August 1, 2026, 7:45pm local time; 10:45 BST; 5:45am EDTVenue: Accor Stadium, Sydney, AustraliaForecast: Another mild winter’s day in Sydney, possibly with a shower or twoOn TV: none; elsewhereStreaming: Paramount+ (USA), FanCode (India); StarTimes (NGA); CFC+ (UK/int’l) — CFC+ is Chelsea’s new-ish premium(?) streaming service so if your region does not have a rights-holder, you can watch there for £9.99 (or buy all six preseason games for just a little more at £14.99; or subscribe for the whole year for a little bit more at £19.99)Chelsea team news: Since Tuesday’s friendly, Filip Jörgensen has left camp to complete a move to RC Strasbourg and Moisés Caicedo and Nicolas Jackson have shown up, though are not likely to feature in match action just yet. With nearly 30 players on the tour now, and a couple more joining shortly (Geovany Quenda and the newly reinstated Mykhailo Mudryk), this game might be the last opportunity for some of the youngsters in the squad. Of the kids, Landon Emenalo and Dastan Satpaev have arguably impressed the most thus far, so hopefully that won’t apply to them just yet.Also since Tuesday, Chelsea completed the signing of