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Updated at 21.29 CET
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Disallowed goal for Roma's El Shaarawy!
Wowzers. What a goal. But is he offside? Yes he is. It is a delightful flick over the last defender by Dybala. El Shaarawy volleys it unerringly into the far corner, a goal reminiscent of Kylian Mbappé’s cracker in the World Cup final in 2022. But the winger is adjudged offside by the VAR.
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Updated at 21.26 CET
Goal! 20 min: Tottenham 1-1 Roma (Ndicka)
Dybala strokes over a free-kick after a needless foul from Tottenham – Ndicka gets up and deflects the ball into the roof of the net off his shoulder! Super delivery, and a good header, even if it included a slice of luck.
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Updated at 21.22 CET
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Updated at 21.20 CET
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The Son penalty.
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Updated at 21.10 CET
Goal! 5 min: Tottenham 1-0 Roma (Son penalty)
Boom! A lovely penalty struck sweetly into the net with the goalie going the wrong way.
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Updated at 21.22 CET
Penalty for Spurs.
There it is.
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Updated at 21.08 CET
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First half kick-off!
Here we go.
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The teams are out. Postecoglou and Ranieri exchange a few friendly words on the sideline. I couldn’t think of a time Spurs had played Roma, and indeed, this is the first competitive meeting between the sides.
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Updated at 21.01 CET
On pundit duty, Peter Crouch predicts a “reasonably comfortable” win for Spurs.
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“You need to move on quickly,” Postecoglou tells TNT Sports of that win at City. “It was a good day for us. We played well, and you need to against the best in the business. It’s a different challenge tonight. And it’ll be a good challenge.
Will Roma have a new manager bounce? “It will be a tough game. They’ve had a difficult start to the season. Europe is a bit of an escape from that for all clubs, a chance to kickstart your season … Claudio’s come in, they lost against Napoli: tonight will be a tough game.”
And finally on Fraser Forster: “He’s been around a long time and he’s a big part of the club. He’s already played in the Europa League this season so he’s not going in cold. He’ll do well.”
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Thank you to Mats Hummels for reminding me: this is a crucial game for Roma’s European hopes:
“This game is incredibly important for us,” he said. “It’s possibly our last chance if we want to finish in the top eight but we need points anyway to reach the next round and turn things around for our team and our club. It’s a very difficult game but it’s also a big chance. We’re playing a very strong team but we can show we’re able to play at a much higher level.”
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Bryan Cristante, on the bench for Roma tonight, is the player who swung that England v Italy Euro 2020 final in the Azzurri’s direction. In my opinion.
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Updated at 20.49 CET
Chelsea have beaten Heidenheim 2-0 in the Europa Conference League.
As for the Europa League table, Spurs sit eighth as we go to press.
Roma are 21st out of 36.
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Rodrigo Bentancur’s ban applies to domestic matches only, by the way:
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David Hytner
Guglielmo Vicario has had surgery to repair an ankle fracture that he sustained in Tottenham’s 4-0 Premier League win at Manchester City on Saturday. The news has rocked the club so soon after such a morale-boosting result and it will deprive them of one of their key players and leaders at a busy time of the season.
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Isn’t it lovely to reminisce about those pre-Brexit days when Ranieri led Leicester to the Premier League title?
But that was then, and this is now, and all that.
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Will Unwin has Manchester United v Bodø/Glimt right here:
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Four changes for Tottenham then, with Forster in nets, while Gray, Bentancur and Johnson also come in.
It’s a first start for Mats Hummels among three changes for Roma: Paulo Dybala also comes back into the side.
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Updated at 21.00 CET
Team news
Tottenham (4-3-3): Forster; Porro, Dragusin, Davies, Gray; Sarr, Bentancur, Johnson; Kulusevski, Solanke, Son (capt.). Substitutes: Austin, Whiteman, Bissouma, Udogie, Maddison, Bergvall, Werner, Olusesi, Williams-Barnet, Hardy, King.
Roma (3-4-2-1): Svilar, Mancini, Hummels, Ndicka; Celik, Kone, Paredes, Angelino; Dybala, El Shaarawy; Dovbyk. Substitutes: Marin, Ryan, Cristante, Pellegrini, Abdulhamid, Soule, Le Fee, Baldanzi, Saelemaekers, Zalewski, Pisilli, Sangare.
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Updated at 20.15 CET
Preamble
Ange Postecoglou said this is “a really pivotal part of the season”. He was speaking before his Tottenham players opened an industrial-sized can of whup-ass for Manchester City at the Etihad last Saturday, so hats off to him, the pivot has initially been positive.
But Spurs have eight more matches to squeeze in before Christmas, starting with Roma this evening, and such a congested spell will provide a stern test for Project Postecoglou and Ange-ball. For every 4-0 thrashing of the Premier League champions there seems to be a shock defeat by the likes of Crystal Palace or Ipswich, so the jury remains out on Tottenham’s long-term prospects under the Greek-Australian.
Whatever happens tonight should be fun, though, because Claudio Ranieri is back in charge of Roma for the third time in his career. The 73-year-old’s first match in charge as caretaker manager was a 1-0 defeat by Napoli last Sunday. Can the wily old fox derail Ange’s festive plans? We’re about to find out.
Kick-off: 8pm UK
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Updated at 20.22 CET