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The much-anticipated quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa League are finally upon us as we host German side Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg tonight (Thursday 10 April) at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Here’s all the key info you need...

What time is kick-off against Eintracht Frankfurt?

Tonight’s match gets underway at 8pm UK.

How can I watch the game?

The match will be televised live in the UK on TNT Sports 3.

You can also follow all the action via the Spurs Official app and here on tottenhamhotspur.com, as our Match Centre brings you live text and audio commentary plus stats, pictures and more.

What is the team news?

Ange Postecoglou reported no fresh injury concerns coming out of Sunday’s Premier League win over Southampton.

Richarlison was back on the bench for that match and could feature tonight while it remains to be seen when Dejan Kulusevski and Kevin Danso will be available as they continue their respective comebacks.

Radu Dragusin is out long-term with a knee injury and is ineligible for the latter stages of the Europa League anyway along with Fraser Forster, Antonin Kinsky, Sergio Reguilon and Timo Werner.

Goalkeeper Kevin Trapp has been injured of late for Eintracht Frankfurt along with Ansgar Knauff, Elye Wahi and Timothy Chandler.

Oscar Hojlund and Junior Dina Ebimbe are ineligible to feature for the visitors.

Who is the referee?

Polish referee Szymon Marciniak takes charge tonight, assisted by Tomasz Listkiewicz and Adam Kupsik with Paweł Raczkowski as the fourth official.

Alejandro Hernández and assistant Cesar Soto Grado will be on VAR duties.

What colours will the teams be playing in?

We’ll be wearing our traditional all-Lilywhite European strip this evening, with our goalkeeper in yellow.

Eintracht Frankfurt will wear orange shirts, black shorts and orange socks, with their keeper in turquoise.

What will the weather conditions be like?

There’ll be clear skies and light winds in north London tonight, with temperatures at around 14 degrees.

How can I get the matchday programme and what’s included?

Micky van de Ven stars on the cover and speaks in our exclusive main feature interview inside tonight’s official matchday programme. Also featuring Ange Postecoglou’s exclusive column, plus a whole lot more, it’s available for the usual £4 at the game. Copies can be purchased around the stadium or online here for delivery direct to your door.

What is the travel information if I’m going to the game?

Travel information is available here for supporters attending tonight’s fixture in person at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

As the Club for dog lovers, we are featuring a ‘Dog of the Match’ at every home game throughout the season.

Members of Tottenham Hotspaw – our first-ever Official Supporters’ Club for dog lovers – have been posting pictures of their beloved pets on the group’s Facebook page for a chance for them to be featured on the stadium big screens ahead of kick-off and in the matchday programme.

Today’s ‘Dog of the Match’ is Sonny, a one-year-old who is a real ball of joy. Sonny regularly watches Spurs matches with his dad Sefid and mum Ruth, barking at the TV when he hears his name!

Alongside our ‘Dog of the Match’, we also profile rescue dogs currently up for adoption with All Dogs Matter – the fantastic charity partner of Tottenham Hotspaw – giving fans the chance to provide a forever home so badly needed.

Today, we are featuring Lesley – a handsome Greyhound who came to the charity after being retired from racing. Lesley is a very snuggly boy who loves people, so will make a fantastic addition to any family. Like most greyhounds he loves to run about, so will need a home with direct access to a garden. He is also fine being left for short periods and is fully housetrained.

Yang Min-Hyeok was back amongst the goals for QPR on Wednesday night as he struck in their 3-1 win at Oxford United.

On loan with the Championship side for the rest of the campaign, Yang was a 64th minute substitute, coming on as the Rs looked to stave off an Oxford comeback with the Us having just halved the deficit two minutes earlier to make it 2-1.

And the South Korean youngster more than helped his loan side stave off any sort of comeback as he went on to bag the west London outfit's third in added time.

Hitting Oxford on the counter attack as they pressed for an equaliser, Yang was released into the box by Karamoko Dembele before firing the ball across goal and into the net off the base of the far right-hand post.

It has been quite the 2025 for Yang thus far. Having made the move to QPR to gain invaluable experience in English football in January, last month, he was named the Korea Football Association Men's Young Player of the Year for 2024 after an incredible debut season in professional football.

And that award came just days after he was given his international debut for Korea in a 1-1 draw with Jordan.

Each matchday, Andy Greeves speaks to one of our former players who has a notable connection to our visitors or had a memorable moment against them for our Official Matchday Programme.

As we prepare to face Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg of our UEFA Europa League quarter-final this evening, Andy caught up with former midfielder Micky Hazard, who scored 25 goals in 170 appearances for us in two spells between 1980 and 1985 and from 1993 to 1995 and started in both legs of our 3-2 aggregate victory over the Bundesliga side in the European Cup Winners’ Cup of 1981/82.

Having beaten Ajax and Dundalk in the previous rounds, we hosted Eintracht Frankfurt in a Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final, first leg match at White Hart Lane on 3 March, 1982. What are your memories of that game?

Micky: "I can remember we scored two good goals that night. Paul Miller scored and so did I... two players who had come through the ranks from schoolboy level to first team. Tony Galvin, whose first professional club was Tottenham, made an assist. Eintracht Frankfurt were a good team, but I felt confident - as I always did in Europe – that we’d get through to the next round. If I’m honest with you, I thought we’d win in Europe every season because we had such good players. In the slower pace of continental football as it was at that time, we really flourished."

You mentioned your goal in that 2-0 win in the first leg. Can you describe it?

Micky: "Tony Galvin broke through with the ball and I ran to the right of him and he fed the ball to me. As the defenders were coming across to me, I went across the one, dropped my shoulder to go to the right and came to the left. The second defender came over and I did the same thing – dropped my shoulder to go right and then went left – before rifling it into the keeper’s bottom right-hand corner from about 20 yards out. This was all done with my ‘wrong’ foot. I am right footed, but I didn’t touch the ball once with my right foot from picking it up through to striking it. I’m always happy when I see a clip of that goal again. I had a body swerve that I used a lot during my career and that goal captured that."

We were 0-2 down early on in the second leg. What were your feelings at that time?

Micky: "We were in such a comfortable position from the first leg and suddenly, we’re 0-2 down on the night. So, of course, it was a shock. Glenn Hoddle got a goal back for us late on, which took as through. We ultimately won the tie, so that was all that mattered, but yes, they certainly gave us a fright!"

We were beaten 1-2 on aggregate by Barcelona in the semi-finals that season. That defeat must have been a hard one to take given the ‘physical’ nature of Barça’s approach to those two matches?

Micky: "We got kicked from pillar to post in that game in the first leg at White Hart Lane. I’ve never played in a match like that before. You see the modern-day Barcelona and the incredible football they play. This performance couldn’t have been any more different... they just wanted to kick us off the park. Ahead of the second leg, both teams got a warning from UEFA not to repeat the kind of scenes we’d seen in the first game, even though we hadn’t been responsible. Barcelona did exactly what they’d done in the first leg in the second game. It was such a shame lose to them, as we were a better team."

Despite that disappointment, the season ended on a real high, as we won the FA Cup...

Micky: "Yes, although there was still maybe a tinge of disappointment because as I say, I think we really could have won four trophies that season. In the League Cup Final, we were 1-0 up against Liverpool with a minute or so to go. Steve Archibald went round Bruce Grobbelaar and missed. They go up the other end and Ronnie Whelan equalised and then we lost in extra-time. If we’d beaten Liverpool in the League Cup Final, I think we’d have had a great chance of winning the other three trophies."

You were a key member of Keith Burkinshaw’s side that won the UEFA Cup in 1983/84. How do you look back on that incredible campaign?

Micky: "We played some top teams that season. We knocked out Drogheda and then we beat Feyenoord - who had Johan Cruyff in their team. We beat Bayern Munich after that, who had a great team with the likes of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. Austria Vienna were another good team, who we knocked out in the quarter-finals. They had an incredible midfielder called Herbert Prohaska, who was a key player for Austria at the time too. And I was able to score the winner in the semi-final against Hajduk Split which I was delighted about."

How do you reflect on the final against Anderlecht?

Micky: "The irony is that we won the UEFA Cup missing half of our regular starting XI. Ray Clemence, Steve Perryman, Glenn Hoddle and Garth Crooks were all out for the second leg of that final and Ossie was only substitute as he was injured. We were brilliant in the first leg and the tie really should have been over out there. We could and should have won 3-0, even better, out there. Anderlecht were a good team full of internationals… top players like Morten Olsen and Enzo Scifo. To win it in the way we did in the second leg, on home soil, was incredible. Sometimes it feels like it only happened the other day. That’s what I love about football. You can create a memory that is 30, 40, 50 years old. But it remains with you and here we are talking about it today!"

What was it like re-signing for Spurs in 1993?

Micky: "Each and every football club I played for during my career played a special part in my life. So, there is absolutely no disrespect intended when I say what I’m about to say. But, from the day I left Spurs to the day I re-signed in 1993, I spent my free time dreaming that one day, I’d get to play for Spurs again. If ever there was a football club suited to myself, the way I saw the game and my abilities, it was Tottenham Hotspur."

While you won two trophies as a Spurs player, we understand your most precious memory of the club was our last day at White Hart Lane back in May 2017?

Micky: "That’s right. I’m a backstreet kid from Sunderland, 300 miles away. But here I was, invited as a guest of the club to the last-ever game at White Hart Lane - one of 49 former players. I was sitting in the Bill Nicholson Suite having a meal with different generations of Spurs players. We had a menu with a list of the former players who attended and I got that signed by each and every one of those former players. I felt like a kid at Christmas getting these autographs! The day got better and better. We went down to the tunnel ready to go out onto the pitch to be introduced to the crowd. There was a little bit of anxiety because I just wanted the crowd to remember me. The names were read out alphabetically, so in front of me was David Ginola and behind me was Glenn Hoddle! So that added to my nerves, given they are both crowd favourites. But when I came out, the reception was amazing and both the relief and sense of pride… I was buzzing. After that, we lined up with the current team, we did a lap of honour around the pitch and sang ‘Can’t Smile Without You’ on the pitch. And then, we got confirmation that God is a Spurs supporter when he sent a rainbow that ended on the cockerel on the Shelf roof! When I arrived home, someone had posted a photograph of me in the tunnel that day, looking out on the pitch as I was about to go out. They captioned it ‘if pride had a face…’ I had a lump in my throat seeing that because it just summed up what the club means to me. And I felt pride that day like never before."

And a few years later, you played for our Spurs Legends team against Inter Legends. An eventful day for you to say the least?!

Micky: "All the players reported to the training ground that day. I had to report to the stadium though, as I was there working prior to the game. I came down to the dressing room when I knew the players were due to arrive to greet them. All these legendary players walked in… Jürgen Klinsmann, Robbie Keane, Dimitar Berbatov. I was shaking all of their hands and as I looked down the row of players, there was Gazza. And he saw me and he said ‘wow, it’s Micky Hazard… what a player you were by the way’. And I thought to myself ‘blimey, one of the greatest English footballers of all-time knows who I am and also said the words that he did’.

"To get the opportunity to play on that pitch was incredible, especially as I was the oldest player in both squads. I couldn’t wait to come on and that happened with about 30-35 minutes of the game remaining. When I came out onto the pitch, it felt surreal. It felt like I was living in an alternate universe... I was so happy, so content. Then, with about 30 seconds left to go, I snapped my Achilles. I ended up in a wheelchair for four months and I wasn’t able to travel to Madrid for the Champions League Final. People say to me regularly ‘I bet you wished you’d never played’ and I always say ‘I wouldn’t change a thing’. As a former player, you dream that one day you might be back out on the pitch. So, it was still a dream come true for me, despite my injury."

Brennan Johnson spoke to the media at Hotspur Way on Wednesday ahead of our UEFA Europa League quarter-final, first leg against Eintracht Frankfurt at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday night (8pm UK).

Brennan on being proud of his 16 goals this season...

"It is something that I am definitely proud of. It was a target for me at the start of the season to score more goals than I did last season. There’s a lot of work that goes into it, positionally, and the types of finishes that I want to improve at. Sixteen goals is something I’m very happy with."

Brennan on Forest's success this season...

"Of course I’m happy for Forest and the season that they’re having, but I’m delighted to be here. I’ve loved every second. I think the size of the club, the people within the club and the fans, it’s something that I could only have wished for when I was younger, so yes, really happy to be here.

Brennan on if he feels under appreciated...

"Not really, no. Within the team and the staff we have here, it’s definitely made clear to me to feel appreciated and that’s all that matters to me, to be honest. My colleagues, the staff and the manager make me feel appreciated. I think the style of play really suits me. All the people in the club are super supportive of what I’ve achieved this season. Within these walls, I feel really good about it."

Brennan on his style and the system...

"It suits me just because the players we have, the profiles, a lot of fast players, so when the ball gets crossed, there tends to be a lot of space for the ball to go all the way across the pitch and it’s just about me gambling on what position to be in. More times than not this season I’ve been in the right position. Work does go on on the training ground, there’s a lot of coaches who do a lot of work with me which I’m really appreciative of. There is work that goes into it. It’s quite instinctive as well, something I’ve always wanted to do."

Brennan on coming back after his injury in January...

"It was disappointing to pick up an injury that maybe went a bit longer than I wanted it to. After the injury it’s always tough to hit the ground running. I did score against Ipswich but after that the games came really thick and fast. It was just about trying the best I can to build up my sharpness. I feel like when I’m at my best it is when I’m feeling really sharp, energetic and fit, so it was possibly a little bit of that. Then it was more the performance maybe wasn’t as high as it was before that."

Brennan on Mathys Tel taking the late penalty against Southampton on Sunday...

"All of us attacking players, if there’s a chance to score from 12 yards without it being contested, all of us would want to take it. Once the decision had been made it’s not really my nature to argue or have a fight about who takes a penalty. I’ve been in that situation before, where people are really reluctant to let someone else have a penalty and it can put you off. So, once the ball was with Mathys, I just wanted to get on the edge of the box and support him. He put it away and he’s a quality player as well so it’s not like I’m doubting his quality. As soon as the ball was put in his hands I backed him to score."

Brennan on the Europa League being 'light at the end of the tunnel' as injuries stacked up in December...

"Massively. That period was really tough. There was a crazy amount of injuries. Even in the European games where we had the injuries the lads did really well. Everyone gave literally everything. I think there was one point where we had 10 or 11 fit first team players, so I was really proud watching the lads, especially in Europe, the way they fought in games until the end and got some really good results, away from home as well - watching it made me proud. It just gave us a great elevation to push on in this competition."

Brennan on wanting to win the competition for Ange...

"We want to win it for everyone in the club. Us players and the manager and the backroom staff have been through some tough times this season. It’s been down to our own mistakes, there have been a lot of games where we haven’t performed good enough. It would be an unbelievable feeling to win this competition, but I think we don’t want to look too far past this game on Thursday, but to be able to win it for everyone at the club would be massive."

Brennan on social media...

"I don’t really use social media that much to be honest. I have some accounts on it, I don’t check it too much or go on it too much. For me, personally, I don’t think it’s to do with football or wanting to perform better, that comes down to work on the training pitch, it’s more what I’m spending my time on when I’m not training. I want to make the most of the time that I get to spend the time with people close to me and I took a decision, but the run that I went on after coming off it was a bit of a coincidence. A few people thought that was the key to scoring goals but it was just coincidence the way it happened."

Brennan on Wales boss Craig Bellamy and watching videos of Raheem Sterling...

"I've really enjoyed playing with Wales. I feel like we're in a really good place at the minute, we have some players who are playing really well in the Premier League and at the highest level. The staff and the manager have been amazing. They give you little bits to watch. A few of the members of staff had worked with Raheem Sterling, so they kind of just wanted to pass on a message that they'd worked with him, which I was all ears for, to be honest. I feel like he's an unbelievable player who's had an amazing career, but doesn't get the respect that he deserves. He scored so many goals in the Premier League and that's something that I want to do as well."

Brennan on scoring a number of one-touch goals this season...

"I think it's more just the position that the lads had got me in that I don't really need to take many touches to score. I'm very thankful for the great assists and the goals that I've been able to score.”

Brennan on specific examples of what he's been working on with the coaching staff...

"One would be, for example, the first goal on the weekend, noticing that Dom made the run to the front post, and being in position when the ball gets cut back on my left foot. I think something like that - I had been told not to try and hit the ball too hard because it's coming at quite a pace. So, when it's on my left foot, not thinking about it too much, just trying to get a good contact on it. Also, there's a lot of work that goes into trying to hit the ball into the ground, trying to make it hard for the goalkeepers. That's another tip that I've got this season. So, just little things like this to keep in mind. I know, in a game, it's kind of hard to think about all the things that you've been told, but little things like this, if you keep practising, it kind of sticks."

Brennan on shutting up the critics...

"Personally, I just want to win it for the group of players and the staff. I don't really care about what other people sing and the critics, to be honest. I feel like I switched off from that a long time ago. For me, I love the lads, all the players in the squad, all the staff, the management team. I feel like we've created a real tight-knit group and I feel like we've all been under a lot of criticism, maybe different people at different points, so it's something that we can all kind of relate to, so we all have that understanding with each other. So, when it comes to tournaments like this and the chance to progress, it's something we all want to do for each other, because we've had some tough times and there would be no bigger joy than to celebrate with the people who have had to go through that, like I have, as well."

Ange Postecoglou spoke to the media at Hotspur Way on Wednesday, ahead of our UEFA Europa League quarter-final, first leg against Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday night (8pm).

Ange on our latest team news...

"Everyone's good from the weekend from a physical standpoint. It's a good place to be for us, hasn't been many occasions when that's happened this year, so from that point of view it's good. We're all excited. It's a quarter-final of a European competition, a home game as well which adds to that excitement so looking forward to it."

Ange on Mathys Tel taking the penalty against Southampton, rather than Brennan Johnson, who was on a hat-trick...

"We scored, we won. Delighted. It's incredible, it's just... if we're 2-1 up tomorrow night and get a penalty in the last minute, I want the best penalty taker to take it. I mean the one slight against this club is apparently it hasn't been a winner. Well the winner's mentality in the last minute of the game is to score a goal. We scored a goal. And yet somehow in this ultimate universe where everything Tottenham does is wrong, that's come out as a negative. Be that as it may. From my point of view, I was delighted because as I said if that's tomorrow night and we get a penalty in the last minute and get a third goal which could be really decisive... I'm really pleased with the way the players handled it."

Ange on Brennan and Wilson Odobert...

"With Brennan, part of the strategy heading into this was we had quite a few players who were coming back from long-term injuries including Wilson, Destiny, Micky van de Ven, Romero. I could keep going on. We had to use games where we needed those guys to play because otherwise if I kept playing Brennan we would be at a point now where Wilson, Destiny, these guys would have had no game time and we may need them. It wasn’t about just leaving Brennan out because he wasn’t performing. Part of the strategy was we needed to get Wilson some game time. So I’m pleased that both of them have got some game time. Most of our guys now, we are able to give Micky and Destiny a rest on the weekend, are in a position where they are not fatigued because they haven’t been overplayed but they have played enough and that has been really important for us. So, we are in a good position from that point of view."

Ange on the importance of the atmosphere in the stadium...

"Hugely important. With every European game, whether you were watching last night or tonight, whoever is playing at home, the atmosphere makes a big impact, absolutely it does. I think it is a big part of European football. A lot of teams who have success in European football is on the back of really strong home atmosphere. We hope it is the same tomorrow night for us. We think if we can get the crowd going tomorrow night, and we have had nights like that this year, European nights have been good, the semi-final of the Carabao Cup first leg against Liverpool was really good. We need that tomorrow night because in European football it is a big part of helping what are always tight ties for clubs to get an advantage."

Ange on savouring the opportunity...

"I’m not sure how many times the club has been in the quarter-finals of a European competition. Every time you get in there you don’t take it for granted. You have got to make the most of it, for sure. It’s going to be a tough game tomorrow. Frankfurt are a good side. They are going well in the Bundesliga. They have a mixture of some really exciting young players and some experience in there. It will be a good challenge for us. When you get to the last eight of a European competition, that is what you expect to face and I’m looking forward to it."

Ange on changing the mentality to where winning becomes normal...

"We are still a little bit away from that. It’s still only the quarter-final stage, but you have got yourself to a position where you have an opportunity to progress to the final stages. It is just one step at a time. The most important thing tomorrow night is that we focus on having a strong performance at home, make sure we play the football that we want to play and we have tried to play. We are slowly getting ourselves back into that sort of ability to maintain the levels we need to on a more consistent basis with the players we have available, so that has got to be the focus."

Ange on the performances of the team since injured players started to return...

"I think we've been okay. Again, it's been disruptive, trying to juggle getting players game time while also resting some players at different times so we can get to this position where we've got a fairly fit and strong squad to tackle what's ahead. I thought first half at the weekend was really good. I thought there were some really good signs both with and without the ball, that the lads are getting stronger in the areas we need them to."

Ange on if there's an anger in the dressing room to prove people wrong...

"I think that feeling exists, but not because of that. I don't think that's a healthy motivation to have because, ultimately, you can't win that contest. I just think we're in that position that even the good stuff we may do is going to be turned into a glass half full rhetoric and from that perspective, I don't think that can be a driver in what we want to do. The lads are really keen to bring success to the club, keep driving the principles of what we started this whole journey with, in terms of the football we want to play, really stick together as they have through the toughest of periods and now hopefully we've worked our way into a position where we can make an impact on our season, a really disappointing season for us. I just think there's a real determination to take the opportunity that they've earned at this point. I don't think you're going to win that argument of convincing people, well I think John (Cross) wrote that even if we win it, I'm gone anyway. That's not having a go at you, that's just saying the general sentiment of people. So, if you're trying to use that as a motivation, you're not going to win that anyway. There's got to be more in it for us and for us what is the most important thing as a group is that we've been through a really tough time but we're still in a position where we can make an impact, and you don't know how often you get those opportunities. We're in a quarter-final, and I don't know how many times the club has been in a quarter-final in European competition. You don't want to let that slip you by or have the wrong mindset going into it. I think the players are handling it well in terms of how they're trying to embrace this challenge. They're going to face a top team but they have the capabilities to overcome that."

Ange on the importance of substitutes being 'switched on'...

"Hugely so, and the point I was trying to make with Wilson is he was the key contributor to us winning the penalty at the end, so he makes a big impact. It is about all the players, not just Wilson, he was just an example I used. You kind of know in European competitions it is over two legs and more than likely the dying stages of both legs are going to be hugely important and the way you handle that. Usually that will be handled by guys who are coming on. No one starts and finishes the game with the same 11 players, so it’s about having a readiness for that. At the moment, we’ve got some really good options off the bench and the guys we need them to not just to come on and play their minutes, but to come on and really make an impact. Wilson was the one who won the ball back for Brennan’s penalty and that is the kind of impact we need from the whole group now, because it will take the whole challenge of the group to overcome."

Ange on the Europa League 'keeping him going'...

"I came to this club with a clear purpose and vision of what the club needed and what I could offer. That is to change the way the team plays, to obviously rejuvenate the squad because it was a squad that was coming towards the end of a cycle and to bring success. As long as I’m in this position, that’s always my focus, irrespective of whatever noise there is or what there may or not been in the future. I don’t see that should diminish my burning ambition, my desire and my determination to make that happen. Anything you achieve in life usually comes with a struggle. Certainly, everything I have achieved in my life has come with a struggle from a professional perspective. This is just another struggle, but never through this struggle have I lost the will to fight for what I think is the right thing to do, and I’ll continue to do that."

It's all eyes on Thursday night as our Men's First Team continued preparations for our huge UEFA Europa League quarter-final at home to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Approaching the sharp end of the European competition, the German top-flight side stand in our way in the last eight with the first leg held under the lights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (8pm UK).

With no fresh injury concerns from those available for Sunday's 3-1 win against Southampton in the Premier League last time out, an almost fully fit squad - missing Dejan Kulusevski, Kevin Danso and long-term absentee Radu Dragusin - took part in open training on Wednesday afternoon.

One of the voices of European football on talkSPORT and Sky Sports, well known for The Football Ramble podcast, an author and writer for The Guardian - and a regular contributor here at Spurs for almost 10 years - Andy Brassell gives us a short, sharp view of our opposition ahead of every UEFA Europa League match this season.

After the league phase and beating AZ Alkmaar in the Round of 16, we now face Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt over two legs in the quarter-finals, with the first leg at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday evening (8pm UK). The second leg follows in Germany on Thursday week (17 April, 8pm UK).

Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany)

Manager - Dino Toppmöller

Domestic form - 3rd in Germany's Bundesliga Eredivisie, two points ahead of Mainz in UCL qualification, but 14 points adrift of Bayer Leverkusen in 2nd, and they've lost 4 of their last 6

Europa League form - 5th in the league phase (W5 D1 L2) - beat Ajax 6-2 on aggregate in Round of 16

Andy Brassell...

"There are two ways to look at Eintracht Frankfurt at the moment. Firstly, it's that they've lost four of their last six in the Bundesliga, which is obviously a bit shaky, although we know things have changed since Omar Marmoush moved to Manchester City in January. They weren't good at the weekend, either. They went to Werder Bremen, had loads of the ball (63% possession) but no shots on target and lost 2-0. However, in the mini run before that, they won three in a row, including beating Ajax in the Europa League (6-2 on aggregate) and the penultimate Bundesliga game they had against Stuttgart, they won 1-0 and that all-but ended Stuttgart's European hopes, Stuttgart one of their potential competitors, and they were really good that day. What we can take from that is they are still in the top three, but quite vulnerable in terms of being caught by the likes of RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund, big teams who haven't had the best of years. As I said, there is no doubt things have changed since Marmoush's departure. Hugo Ekitike has actually led the line quite well, he's not just a goalscorer, but a scorer of big goals, and a player who is technically very good. I'll be surprised if he didn't play in the Premier League at some point. Traditionally, if you look back at Eintracht Frankfurt's big seasons, fighting on all fronts, they've struggled to finish off those seasons, with drop offs of form in the Bundesliga, which would worry me in terms of them trying to nail down that place in the top four, even more so in a season where a couple of the bigger teams have struggled somewhat. This is another potential route to next season's Champions League. Overall, I think Spurs need a lead out of this first leg, because the atmosphere in Frankfurt - as Spurs fans will know from 2022 - is absolutely immense, particularly on European nights. However, they are so, so unpredictable at the moment."

Eloise Hall enjoyed a goalscoring return to our Women’s Under-21s side on Wednesday afternoon, but it came as a mere consolation for us as Liverpool pulled away with a 5-1 victory in the penultimate game of Professional Game Academy League campaign.

The young forward, who has enjoyed a successful spell on a dual registration with AFC Bournemouth having netted six goals in 12 games, halved the deficit in the first half with a composed finish after Olivia Maddocks and Neve McDonald had fired the away side into a two-goal lead within the first 15 minutes at Hotspur Way.

However, McDonald restored their two-goal advantage just before the half-hour mark before they further extended their lead in the second half - McDonald sealing her hat-trick before Maddy Duffy wrapped up the victory for the Reds in our final home game of the season.

Alongside Eloise returning to the starting XI, Faye Fields-Davies made her first start of the campaign while we were also able to call upon midfielder Rania Oukriss, who was named amongst the substitutes following a weeks training camp with Morocco Under-17s.

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Ange Postecoglou reports no further injury concerns from Sunday's 3-1 win against Southampton as we prepare for a huge UEFA Europa League quarter-final, first leg against Eintracht Frankfurt at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday evening (8pm UK).

Richarlison made a welcome return to the bench against Southampton, meaning only Dejan Kulusevski, Kevin Danso - both of whom Ange quoted were 'a couple of weeks away' last week - and longer-term Radu Dragusin remain sidelined.

Speaking at his pre-match press conference at Hotspur Way on Wednesday, Ange said: "Everyone is good from the weekend from a physical standpoint. That's a good place to be for us, there haven't been that many occasions where that's happened this year, so from that point of view, it's good."

Ange was later asked if he had a dilemma on his hands with Wilson Odobert netting twice in the Round of 16, second leg against AZ Alkmaar and then Brennan Johnson back in the side and scoring twice against Southampton - he now has 16 for the season.

Ange said: "Part of the strategy leading into this was that was we had quite a few players who were coming back from long-term injuries including Wilson, Destiny (Udogie), Micky (van de Ven), (Cuti) Romero, I could keep going, and we had to use games where we needed those guys to play, because otherwise, if I just kept playing Brennan, we'd be at a point now where Wilson, Destiny, these guys, would have had no game time, and we may need them.

"So, it wasn't about just leaving Brennan out because he wasn't performing, part of the strategy was that we needed to give Wilson some game time. We were able to give Micky and Destiny a rest at the weekend, so most of our guys are in a position where they're not fatigued, because they haven't been overplayed, but also they've played enough, and that's really important for us. We're in a good position from that point of view."