Tottenham Hotspur intends to secure her place in the Europa League on Thursday when you see a visit to the Swedish outfit Elfsborg.
The LilyWhites guaranteed their place in the Knockout Play-Off round, at least after the 3-2 victory against Hoffenheim last week, but need a victory in Elfsborg at home to ensure that they will go directly to the last 16 .
A tie or defeat would leave a top-dot finish out of your hands and you would be dependent on results elsewhere to avoid the two-legged play-off from February.
Trust is hardly high for Spurs at the moment after the dark weekend defeat against Leicester City rises in the shelter with the pressure on Poseteclou. Injuries have tightened their problems and the heat rises in North London.
Elfsborg’s regular league season ended in November and the Swedish team has only played games and friendly games in Europe since then. Serivating victories in Europe mean that they can still reach the Knockout phase, even if a top -dach -finish is now impossible.
Here is 90 minutes Guide to a crunch clash for the LilyWhites.
Tottenham against Elfsborg head-to-head record
This is the first competition game between Tottenham and Elfsborg.
Current form (all competitions)
Tottenham | Elfsborg |
|---|---|
Tottenham 1-2 Leicester – 26/01/25 | Elfsborg 1-0 Schön – 23/01/25 |
Hoffenheim 2-3 Tottenham – 23/01/25 | Elfsborg 1-0 Qarabag – 12.12.24 |
Everton 3-2 Tottenham – 19/01/25 | Athletic Club 3-0 Elfsborg – 28/11/24 |
Arsenal 2-1 Tottenham – 15/01/25 | Varnamo 0-0 Elfsborg – 10/11/24 |
Tamworth 0-3 (Aet) Tottenham – 12/01/25 | Elfsborg 1-1 Braga – 07/11/24 |
country | TV channel/live stream |
|---|---|
United Kingdom | TNT Sports 2, Discovery+, Discovery+ App |
United States | Paramount+, VIX |
Canada | Dazn Canada |
Tottenham’s list of injuries is merciless, but Postecoglou at least confirmed that Mikey Moore, Pape Matar Sarr and Yves Bisouma are available against Elfsborg.
The good news ends here. Guglielmo Vicario is still injured and January Antonin Kinsky is not too correct on Thursday, while Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven and Detsiny Udogie are absent in the backline.
According to Postecoglou, Djed Spence and Sergio Reguilon should be fit for the weekend with Brentford, but are not available against Elfsborg.
James Maddison will be missing with a calf pollution in the next few weeks, while Timo Werner, Wilson Odobert, Dominic Solanke and Brennan Johnson are all injured in the forward line.
Tottenham predicted the line-up against Elfsborg (4-3-3): Austin; Porro, Dragusin, Davies, Gray; Mountain vall, bissoora, bentancur; Kulusevski, Richarlison, son.
Elfsborg has no serious injury concerns that drive to North London and will strive to delete more misery on a fighting Spurs page. The Oscar Hiljemark team has played not much competitive football in the past two months and should be well rested.
Elfsborg is likely to achieve a list of similar list that secured an impressive victory against Nice last week, but they cannot call Simon Olsson and Julius Magnusson in January, nobody can be registered until the Knockout phase .
Elfsborg predicted the line-up against Tottenham (3-4-3): Pettersson; Holmen, Henriksson, Yegbe; Hedlund, B. Zeneli, Qasem, Hult; A. Zeneli, Abdullai, Rapp.
Tottenham is undoubtedly favorites for the affair on Thursday and should have enough firepower to take up a team team in the Europa League table. However, injuries and bad form mean that a convincing victory is increasingly unlikely.
The good news for Spurs is that Elfsborg are not productive goal scorers and only runs nine in the Europa League compared to Tottenhams 14. You won the recent European games 1-0 against Nice and Qarabag, but it is unlikely that Spurs will be kept calm in the capital.