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Spurs' record in Europe:- U.E.F.A Champions League P W D L F - A 58 24 14 20 100 - 82 (Finalists 2019) European Super Cup Finalists 2025 European Cup P W D L F - A 8 4 1 3 21 - 13 (Semi-Finalists 1962) European Cup Winners Cup P W D L F - A 33 20 5 8 65 - 34 (Winners 1963) UEFA Cup/Europa League P W D L F - A 168 98 40 30 343-147 (Winners 1972, 1984, 2025 Finalists 1974) Europa Conference League P W D L F - A 7 3 1 3 14 - 9 + Forfeited one game due to Covid - 09/12/21) Total P W D L F - A 274 149 61 64 541-285 . Champions League standings Pos P W D L F-A GD Pts 16. Spurs 5 2 2 1 10-7 3 8 31. Slavia 5 0 3 2 2-8 -6 3 Slavia Praha results to date:- Slavia Praha 2-2 Bodo/Glimt Inter 3-0 Slavia Praha Atalanta 0-0 Slavia Praha Slavia Praha 0-3 Arsenal Slavia Praha 0-0 Ath. Bilbao
Spurs must win this one!
Spurs host Czech league leaders Slavia Praha (Prague) tomorrow night in our sixth and last Champions League game of the year. We have two more of these league phase games to play in late January. Last year, 16 points were needed to finish in the top eight (qualifying automatically for the Round of 16). Realistically to reach such heights, we need to win all three of our remaining games, which is a big task and probably too much of a challenge.
Two wins in those last three games should enable us to finish in the second group of 8 teams and thus be seeded for the play-off round. We must take one game at a time though and first deal with Slavia, who are struggling in 31st place without a win, and seemingly heading for non-qualification.
Slavia are five points ahead of their City rivals - Sparta - after 18 league matches. They have one more domestic game before a winter break and then host Barcelona in January. Slavia's final Champions League game is in Cyprus against Pafos, who sit 24th at the time of writing.
Slavia have won the current version of their league eight times, seven of which have been this century, including last season. I suspect there is no correlation between their domestic form and that in Europe this season.
Our number two keeper Antonin Kinsky signed for us in January from Slavia Praha, and was born in Prague. No doubt he will be hoping for a start. Another former Slavia keeper - Radek Cerny - signed for us on loan in 2005, and played for us against his home side on St. Valentine's Day 2008, when we won 2-1 with goals by Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane.
I have fond memories of trips to Prague in September 2006 and February 2008. We won both games and in fact won three of the four UEFA Cup matches when we met. The final game was drawn and preceded our successful League Cup Final against Chelsea in 2008.
Incidentally, after 5 years with QPR, Radek Cerny returned to finish his playing career with Slavia in 2013-14.
Slavia have managed just two goals in the five Champions League games they've played so far, both of which came in their first game against Bodo/Glimt. Both those goals were scored by Senegalese left-back Mbodji, who hasn't scored since. Praha's top league scorers are Tomas Chory and Mojmir Chytil, both of whom have seven to their name. Chytil has scored four goals in Slavia's last two games, one of which was from the penalty spot.
Czech international keeper Jindrich Stanek is the current choice in goal and has played in Slavia's last 5 games.
Tomorrow's big event being promoted since last weekend is the visit of Heung-min Son, who left in pre-season, after a farewell game in South Korea. "Sonny" will be saying a personal farewell to the fans before kick-off, so early arrival is recommended. Son has been in good form for his new team Los Angeles, scoring 12 goals since his arrival.
Spirits are high of course after our win on Saturday. Destiny Udogie missed the Brentford game through a slight muscular injury, and it has now been confirmed he will be out with a hamstring injury until the New Year. Tomorrow's game kicks off at 8pm and will be televised on TNT here in the UK. The players rotated out of Saturday's starting line-up were Danso, Bergvall, Sarr and Johnson. Neither Bergvall or Johnson got on the pitch, so might be involved tomorrow, although Johnson's fitness has been described as "touch and go". Wait and see is the answer. 83% of respondents on the Champions League site think we'll win and I am one of those. Play like we did against Brentford and I fancy us to score three!
Referee Benoit Bastien and his on-field team are from France. We have seen Monsieur Bastien once before in a 1-0 Europa League defeat away to K.A.A. Gent in February 2017. This referee is kept busy at home and in both European and International matches. He's not shy of issuing red cards with eight straight reds shown since March when he was in charge of Manchester United's win against Real Sociedad.
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