Spurs go down combating to lift hopes forward of Forest death-match | EUROtoday

This could possibly be an odd match with an empty feeling round it. The precedence for Tottenham Hotspur is Premier League survival and Nottingham Forest’s go to on Sunday is of better significance than this sport.

Given the 5-2 deficit after the Kinsky horror present within the first leg, the Europa League champions will want a three-goal successful margin simply to take the tie to extra-time.

“Difficult, but not impossible,” was supervisor Igor Tudor’s evaluation of the duty in hand. The Croatian stays assured that they’ll keep up.

Funnily sufficient, Tottenham have received all 4 of their dwelling Champions League matches this season with an mixture rating of 10-0. Still, given their kind, it looks like that is one for Saint Jude, the patron saint of misplaced causes.

They can not fairly afford to surrender this Champions League spherical of 16 second leg as a hopeless process, relaxation all key gamers and hope for a creditable efficiency.

The Opta supercomputer offers the house aspect a slightly higher likelihood of successful tonight than their opponents and there was encouraging struggle proven within the 1-1 draw at Liverpool on Sunday. A little bit momentum and a win at dwelling may go a great distance.

Micky van de Ven is again from suspension and known as stories that gamers had switched off or had been specializing in subsequent season “the biggest nonsense” yesterday.

They are lacking some key gamers: target-man Richarlison is out with a one-match suspension, Conor Gallagher and Dominic Solanke are damage doubts. Cristian Romero must be again within the crew, however João Palinha has been dominated out.

Atlético Madrid’s stalwart goalkeeper Jan Oblak is out with a muscular downside, so Juan Musso will deputise.

Kick-off on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is at 8pm GMT. Line-ups coming shortly.