Tottenham Hotspur can safe their place within the knockout phases of this season’s Champions League with a win in opposition to 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 facet to north London that received the higher of them within the reverse fixture in Lisbon and inflicted their first defeat of the season.
Here is all you’ll want to know forward of their second assembly.
Present Kind (Final 5 Video games)
Tottenham group information
Injured duo Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison stay unavailable, whereas Conte revealed they are going to additional assess Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Cristian Romero on Wednesday morning after they missed Sunday’s defeat to Newcastle with muscle issues.
Spurs’ solely modifications are more likely to come at wing-back and left centre-back, although simply whether or not Conte leans into that rotation is unknown.
Tottenham Beginning 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 group information
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 crimson playing cards final day trip in opposition to 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 He performed as soon as on the outdated White Hart Lane, coming off the bench in a 5-0 EFL Cup win in opposition to Gillingham.
Sporting CP Beginning 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 type to get them out of it – one which secures development within the Champions League can be a specific mood-lifter.
Sporting’s need to maintain maintain of the ball ought to play properly into Spurs’ arms, and if the hosts merely keep on 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