Tottenham Hotspur kick off their Europa League group campaign on Thursday evening when they travel to Serbia to face Partizan. The Spurs have qualified for the group stage after a convincing 5-1 aggregate win over AEL Limassol from Cyprus. Their start in the Premier League was also pretty good, grabbing 7 points out of 12 so far. The last match for Mauricio Pochettino and his men was the 2-2 draw at Sunderland last Saturday.
Partizan are currently at tleading their domestic league with a 100% record of five wins out of five matches. The Serbians, coached by Marko Nikolic, ended up in the Europa League after being defeated by Ludogorets Razgrad from Bulgaria in Champions League qualifying.
Tottenham will most likely be without Jan Vertonghen who missed the Sunderland match with a thigh injury, while Roberto Soldado and Kyle Walker will surely be out of contention.
Probable starting line-ups:
Partizan: Lukac - Ilic, Vulicevic, Stankovic, Petrovic - Drincic, Grbic, Markovic, Pantic - Lazovic, Skuletic
Spurs: Lloris - Dier, Kaboul, Chiriches, Rose - Capoue, Dembele - Eriksen, Stambouli, Chadli - Adebayor
My prediction: Tottenham to win 2-1.
Here are the odds for the match at Bet365:
Partizan win - 17/4 Draw - 3/1 Tottenham win - 3/5
skrunici 9 years ago
Boring match so far but I think that totenham could win. I think that they have a much better team and I am a Red star fan but wish all good luck to Pratizan, they presenting Serbia and Serbian football... Red star should play here tonight but damn UEFA... never mind that is story for different news
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Snoop 9 years ago
This match is not so interesting, but who knows, maybe Partizan suprise us... Partizan is not good, in my opinion, Tottenham is much better team, if players of Tottenham will be at 70 % their possibilities they can win in this match, they will probably rest some players, but we have big difference in quality between those...
This match is not so interesting, but who knows, maybe Partizan suprise us... Partizan is not good, in my opinion, Tottenham is much better team, if players of Tottenham will be at 70 % their possibilities they can win in this match, they will probably rest some players, but we have big difference in quality between those two clubs....
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