Tottenham Hotspur can safe their place within the knockout phases of this season’s Champions League with a win towards Sporting CP on Wednesday.
Antonio Conte has superior past the group phases simply twice in his earlier 5 makes an attempt, whereas Spurs have solely did not make it past this spherical as soon as of their 5 showings.
They welcome a Sporting aspect to north London that received the higher of them within the reverse fixture in Lisbon and inflicted their first defeat of the season.
Here’s all it’s worthwhile to know forward of their second assembly.
Current Form (Last Five Games)
Tottenham crew news
Injured duo Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison stay unavailable, whereas Conte revealed they may additional assess Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Cristian Romero on Wednesday morning after they missed Sunday’s defeat to Newcastle with muscle issues.
Spurs’ solely adjustments are more likely to come at wing-again and left centre-again, although simply whether or not Conte leans into that rotation is unknown.
Tottenham Starting XI (3-5-2): Lloris; Sanchez, Dier, Lenglet; Emerson, Skipp, Bissouma, Bentancur, Perisic; Son, Kane.
Bench: Forster, Austin, Tanganga, Doherty, Spence, Sessegnon, Davies, White, Sarr, Devine, Lucas, Gil.
Sporting CP crew news
Sporting head to London with supervisor Ruben Amorim nonetheless on the helm following curiosity from Aston Villa.
He and his squad will make the journey to England with out the injured Daniel Braganca and Neto, whereas Pedro Goncalves and Ricardo Esgaio are serving suspensions following purple playing cards final trip towards Marseille.
Marcus Edwards is in line for his first look again in N17 since leaving Tottenham. He performed as soon as on the outdated White Hart Lane, coming off the bench in a 5-0 EFL Cup win towards Gillingham.
Sporting CP Starting XI (3-4-3): Adan; Inacio, Coates, Matheus; Porro, Ugarte, Morita, Santos; Edwards, Paulinho, Trincao.
Bench: Israel, Paulo, Marsa, St Juste, Lamba, Alexandropoulous, Eduardo, Nazinho, Fernandes, Arthur, Cabral, Rochinha.
Tottenham are in an actual funk proper now and desperately want a win of any kind to get them out of it – one which secures development within the Champions League can be a selected temper-lifter.
Sporting’s need to maintain maintain of the ball ought to play properly into Spurs’ arms, and if the hosts merely persist with what they know and do not hit the self destruct button once more, then they need to emerge victorious on Wednesday night.
Prediction: Tottenham 2-1 Sporting CP