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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."

The last time we faced Eintracht Frankfurt, it continued our sequence of facing a German team in every one of our six campaigns in the UEFA Champions League - two-and-a-half-years later, we meet them again in the quarter-final of the UEFA Europa League...

First up in 2010/11, we were drawn with Werder Bremen in Group A and, on our return to the competition in 2016/17, Bayer Leverkusen were among our Group E opponents.

The following two seasons saw us face Borussia Dortmund - in Group H in 2017/18 and then the Round of 16 in 2018/19 - before we came up against two German sides in 2019/20. First up was Bayern Munich in Group B and then RB Leipzig in the Round of 16.

Our trip to Frankfurt in October 2022 on Matchday Three of the 2022/23 Champions League was our first clash with Eintracht for 40 years, since we met in Cup Winners’ Cup action...

Last time out...

Antonio Conte’s side had beaten Marseille 2-0 here in N17 and lost to Sporting in Lisbon by the same scoreline before heading to Germany, where we picked up a point in an entertaining goalless draw in front of 50,000 fans at the Deutsche Bank Park.

Both sides had spells of pressure throughout the game and created plenty chances within them, but just four of the 23 shots at goal in the game were on target despite plenty of goalmouth action.

We went close on a few occasions in the first half, Harry Kane sliding an effort a yard wide, Heung-Min Son going even closer with a right-foot curler before Ivan Perisic’s shot flicked off Kristijan Jakic and spun inches wide just prior to the break. At the other end, Sebastian Rode’s shot deflected off the head of Perisic and flew over the bar on 18 minutes while it was Rode with the only shot on target in that opening half.

Hugo Lloris was at full-stretch to keep out Ansgar Knauff’s volley on the turn after the break, Son hit one that skimmed the top of the Frankfurt net and Jesper Lindstrom blazed over from 18 yards as the frenetic nature of the game continued, even if the goals eluded both sides.

Frankfurt: Trapp, Tuta, Hasebe, N'Dicka, Jakic, Rode (c) (Pellegrini 71), Sow, Knauff, Kamada, Lindstrom (Ebimbe 87), Kolo Muani (Borre 57).

Spurs: Lloris (c), Romero, Dier, Lenglet (Davies 78), Royal, Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Perisic (Sessegnon 71), Richarlison (Bryan 79), Kane, Son.

The return fixture took place just eight days later here at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, when our 3-2 victory took us to the top of Group D.

The visitors struck first on 14 minutes when Daichi Kamada slotted home although we were level six minutes later, Harry Kane sliding the perfect pass to release Son on goal and he produced a composed finish to beat Kevin Trapp. And we turned it around from the penalty spot on 28 minutes after VAR had stepped in to award a spotkick which Kane duly converted.

Lloris made a smart save to keep out Lindstrom’s angled drive and four minutes later, we extended our lead in style, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg clipping over a cross from the right and Son smashing a fierce volley home from 15 yards.

Frankfurt were reduced to 10 men when Tuta was dismissed just before the hour mark after picking up two bookings in two minutes, however they still carried a threat and reduced the deficit when substitute Faride Alidou headed in a corner with three minutes left.

That set up a nervy end, which could have changed had Kane not blazed his second penalty over the bar in stoppage time, but we held out to win and went on to top the group after a dramatic 2-1 win in Marseille, before losing to Milan in the Last 16.

Spurs: Lloris (c), Romero, Dier (Sanchez 78), Lenglet, Royal, Bentancur (Bissouma 67), Hojbjerg (Bryan 85), Sessegnon, Richarlison (Skipp 67), Kane, Son (Lucas 85).

Frankfurt: Trapp, Tuta, Hasebe (Dina Ebimbe 69), N'Dicka, Jakic, Rode (c) (Smolcic 70), Sow, Lenz (Alidou 70), Lindstrom, Kamada (Gotze 78), Kolo Muani (Borre 69).

Breaking new ground

Our first-ever game in the city of Frankfurt came way back in 1911, when we played a team that were the forerunners to the current Eintracht Frankfurt side.

In fact, the friendly came just 12 days after two teams based in the city - FFC Victoria and FVF Kickers - had merged to become Frankfurt Football Club Kickers-Victoria and so we became Kickers-Victoria’s first overseas opponents when we met on 25 May, 1911.

The game was the sixth and final fixture of our 1911 tour to Germany, the first time we had ever visited the country. We had won the previous five matches, beating a North German Combined XI 4-1 in Hamburg before moving on to Berlin, where we defeated Preussen (7-0) and Hertha FC (4-1). Next stop was Leipzig for an 8-1 win over Wacker FC and then Brunswick, where we beat local side Eintracht 4-1.

Our final stop saw us visit Frankfurt to take on the newly-formed Kickers-Victoria in what was only the fourth match in the club’s fledgling history. As was the case for all our matches on this tour, this game was one of the biggest of the 1910/11 season for our hosts.

While we know our team line-up from the contest, unfortunately we’re not aware of the goalscorers in our 6-0 win, apart from the fact that a Dr Friedrich Claus scored two own goals for the home side! We were 4-0 up at half-time.

With this game bringing to a close our tour of Germany, it seems our travelling party enjoyed themselves before the journey back to England. In a report of the game from the Frankfurt Football Club newspaper dated 1 June 1911, it concluded:

“In the evening, a small, impromptu social gathering took place in the Stadtgarten, and the English proved themselves equal to the occasion, handling the full tankards. German and English speeches alternated in lively succession; even the chairman of Spurs volunteered to sing an English chant. It wasn't until early morning that the English football performers parted ways, some of whom, under the safe guidance of a few experts, wanted to take a closer look at Frankfurt by night!”

Kickers-Victoria FC: Charbout-Mollard, Claus, Baumgartner, Schweickert, Jockel, van t'Oever, ter Horst, Dornbusch, Becker, Pickel, Kirchgarth.

Spurs: Joyce, Collins, Wilkes, Steel D, Kennedy, Darnell, Curtis, Minter, Humphreys, Steel R, Middlemiss.

Friendly in Frankfurt

Our second visit to Frankfurt in July 1976 saw us take on tonight’s opponents in their current guise for the very first time, having taken the name of ‘TuS Eintracht Frankfurt 1861’ in 1920.

We’d spent the post-season on a mammoth 27-day tour of Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia in which we played nine matches, winning all of them, and we didn’t return back in England until 25 May.

There wasn’t much of a break for the players though, as no sooner were we back in pre-season training ahead of the 1976/77 campaign, than we were off on tour again, this time to Germany!

First up was a 3-1 win against VfL Osnabruck on 24 July before we faced Eintracht Frankfurt four days later, who themselves were in pre-season and had drawn 0-0 against St Etienne in their previous friendly.

The home side went ahead in the 18th minute when Don McAllister fouled Wolfgang Kraus in the area and Jurgen Grabowski sent Pat Jennings the wrong way from the penalty spot.

We more than matched our hosts for an hour before three goals in an 11-minute spell saw the game slip away. Bernd Nickel took advantage of a defensive error to fire home from 12 yards on 63 minutes, while Grabowski scored his second four minutes later after Willie Young’s clearance fell to him on the edge of the area. Willi Neuberger drilled home to make it 4-0 before we finally got on the scoresheet with eight minutes remaining, Young heading past Peter Kunter.

Eintracht Frankfurt: Koitka (Kunter 57), Reichel (Trinklein 57), Neuberger, Korbel, Beverungen, Muller, Kraus (Weidle 73), Nickel, Wenzel (Borchers 73), Grabowski, Bihn (Stradt 46).

Spurs: Jennings, Naylor, McAllister, Pratt, Young, Osgood, Coates, Perryman, Armstrong (Conn 63), Jones, Neighbour.

The incredible milestones continue to come Brennan Johnson's way.

After bagging a brace on Sunday to help us defeat Southampton 3-1, the forward not only extended his grip on our leading goalscorer title for the current campaign but hit a number of landmarks in doing so.

As previously revealed, the two goals saw Brennan hit his English football league half century with the Wales international having now scored 50 goals in domestic league games in England. While he has now also scored 10 goals in a single top flight campaign for the first time.

But that is not all as the goals have also pushed him past the 20 goal contributions milestone for the campaign as well.

For only the second time in his career and the first time in the top flight, Brennan has now either scored or assisted at least 20 times in all competitions.

Having scored 19 and and assisted nine times (28 involvements) to help Nottingham Forest return to the Premier League in 2021/22, our number 22 has now recorded at least 20 in a season for us with the forward having scored 16 times and provided five assists already this campaign (21).

In the Premier League era, it is quite a rarity for a player to achieve that. In 33 Premier League seasons to date, just 18 players have managed the feat while playing for Spurs. Although, in saying that, three of our players this campaign have already managed it with Heung-Min Son (11 goals, 12 assists (23)) and Dejan Kulusevski (10 goals, 10 assists (20)) joining Brennan in the '20+ club'.

Watch - Brennan's deft finish to grab his second

In the first ever Premier League season, two of our players hit 20+ goal involvements in Teddy Sheringham (28 goals, 12 assists (40)) and Darren Anderton (8 goal, 14 assists (22)).

The players who have registered 20+ goal involvements for us in the most seasons is a title shared by Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son, who both have managed the feat of nine occasions between 2014 and 2025.

The most goal contributions registered by a player in a season since the inception of the Premier League is 50 with Harry Kane racking up that number in 2020/21.

On four occasions, at least 40 goal contributions have been recored by a single player in a season. That was achieved twice by Harry - not including his 50 in 2020/21 - with the other two were achieved by Teddy Sheringham and Jurgen Klinsmann.

Our trip to Liverpool in the Barclays Women’s Super League will now kick-off at an earlier time.

The visit to St Helens Stadium, which is scheduled for Sunday 27 April, will now kick-off at 12pm UK.

This has been brought forward to avoid a clash with our Men’s Premier League fixture at Liverpool, which is also scheduled to take place on Sunday 27 April with kick-off at 4.30pm UK, giving both sets of supporters the opportunity to watch the double-header on the same day.

We’re back in WSL action on Sunday 20 April with Aston Villa the visitors to Brisbane Road and supporters can still grab tickets for the encounter below.

Olga Ahtinen registered an assist as Finland ran out 3-0 winners over Anna Csiki’s Hungary in the UEFA Nations League at Tammelan Stadion on Tuesday.

The midfielder started the contest in Tampere, Finland, and after Emma Kovisito fired the home side into the lead on 18 minutes, Olga was on hand to set-up the second goal of the evening.

Delivering a corner from the left-hand side, Linda Sallstrom rose the highest at the front post and guided her header into the back of the net, doubling Finland’s advantage just six minutes before the break.

With just two minutes left on the clock in normal time, Sanni Franssi added a third for Finland to earn their second win in the group phase of the Nations League.

Olga completed 74 minutes before departing the pitch, while fellow midfielder Eveliina Summanen started and completed the full 90 minutes.

Anna led the line for Hungary on the evening and played 87 minutes before being replaced by Viktoria Nagy in the closing stages of the game.

Our Academy will face Charlton Athletic in this season’s Under-17 Premier League Cup final at Stevenage this Friday night (11 April) - and tickets are still available to come and support our young starlets at the Lamex Stadium.

Kick-off will be at 7pm and tickets are on sale now via Stevenage’s ticketing website, priced at just £5 for adults and £2 for under-18s. Tickets will also be available at the ground on the night, although fans are advised to book early to avoid disappointment.

The match will also be streamed live on SPURSPLAY.

This will be the third time in four seasons that our youngsters – led by Stuart Lewis and Bradley Allen – have reached the Under-17 Premier League Cup final. We memorably beat Nottingham Forest in 2022/23 on our way to completing the Under-17 and Under-18 Premier League Cup double, while we also faced Manchester City in 2021/22 but came up short on that occasion.

We reached this year’s final after a 5-0 home victory over Derby County in the semi-finals, while the Addicks saw off Manchester United 2-1.

Be sure to head down to the Lamex Stadium on Friday to get behind our youngsters on a big night for the Academy!

Re-live our 2022/23 Under-17 Premier League Cup final victory!

We have a range of activities taking place across the Club during the Easter holidays – with something for everyone!

Check out some of the opportunities currently available...

Easter Stadium Tours

Celebrate Easter at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with our Easter-themed Stadium Tours. From Monday 7 April to Saturday 19 April, families can enjoy a special Easter-themed experience as they explore our world-class venue.

As part of the tour, young visitors can take part in an Easter trail, searching for hidden eggs along the route. Those who find them all will receive a golden ticket, unlocking the chance to win a Cadbury Easter Egg!

After your tour, stop by the M Café to enjoy seasonal treats and take part in a colouring competition, with egg-citing Spurs prizes up for grabs.

For those taking on The Dare Skywalk, enjoy breathtaking views of London before receiving a sweet Easter treat to mark the occasion.

Don’t forget, One Hotspur Junior Members can go free with a full-paying adult!

Easter Holiday Football Development programmes

Week one: Mon 7 April – Fri 11 April

Week two: Mon 14 – Thur 17 April

For young football enthusiasts, we have our Easter Holiday programmes taking place at a host of premium venues across London, Hertfordshire and Essex.

These programmes provide a fantastic opportunity for young players to develop their skills and learn the Club’s football philosophy from our FA and UEFA-qualified coaches. With a structured syllabus and experienced coaches, young players will get the best out of their game and maximise their potential. We also focus on key values like teamwork, communication and sportsmanship.

It was a busy Tuesday for a number of our players on international duty with UEFA Nations League on the agenda.

The evening started with Olga Ahtinen picking up an assist in Finland’s 3-0 win over Anna Csiki’s Hungary in their Nations League contest. Olga completed 74 minutes, Eveliina Summanen played the full 90 minutes, while Anna led the line for her nation before being substituted in the 84th-minute.

Martha Thomas was a second half substitute for Scotland in their heavy 6-1 defeat to Germany at Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg. The forward was introduced on 65 minutes as Germany netted six goals in the second half to turn around a one-goal deficit.

Elsewhere, in the same Nations League group as Thomas’ Scotland, Lize Kop marked her return to the Netherlands’ starting XI with a 3-1 victory over Austria in Altach.

Having last worn her country’s colours last summer, our shot stopper earned her 14th cap for her country and completed the full 90 minutes as the Netherlands moved level on points with Germany in their Nations League group after four games.

Luana Buhler started and completed the full match for Switzerland in their dramatic six-goal thriller with Iceland in Reykjavik.

Switzerland raced into a two-goal lead but was pegged back on the stroke of half time by Karolina Lea Vilhjalmsdottir. Although the Luana’s nation reinstated their two goal-advantage just a minute into the restart, a brace from Karolina Lea in the second half saw the points shared.

Amanda Nilden and Matilda Vinberg were late second half substitutes in Sweden’s 1-1 draw with Wales in their Nations League fixture.

The duo were both introduced on 78 minutes as it ended all square at Gamla Ullevi in Goteborg after Hannah Cain’s leveller cancelled out Magdalena Eriksson opener in the early stages of the second half.

Earlier in the week, it was another positive showing for defender Charlotte Grant as Australia completed the double over Korea Republic with a 2-0 win on Monday.

The full-back started back-to-back games for the Matildas and once again completed the full match in Newcastle, Australia, while Clare Hunt stepped off the bench on the hour mark.

Olga Ahtinen registered an assist as Finland ran out 3-0 winners over Anna Csiki’s Hungary in the UEFA Nations League at Tammelan Stadion on Tuesday.

The midfielder started the contest in Tampere, Finland, and after Emma Kovisito fired the home side into the lead on 18 minutes, Olga was on hand to set-up the second goal of the evening.

Delivering a corner from the left-hand side, Linda Sallstrom rose the highest at the front post and guided her header into the back of the net, doubling Finland’s advantage just six minutes before the break.

With just two minutes left on the clock in normal time, Sanni Franssi added a third for Finland to earn their second win in the group phase of the Nations League.

Olga completed 74 minutes before departing the pitch, while fellow midfielder Eveliina Summanen started and completed the full 90 minutes.

Anna led the line for Hungary on the evening and played 87 minutes before being replaced by Viktoria Nagy in the closing stages of the game.

Ledley said: "I think you only have to look at the area we’re in, with it being so diverse, to understand why it’s important we use our platform as a football club to educate young people around the topic of racism.

"It’s important we’re here to help young people so that they have an understanding, particularly around how to deal with racism.

"The No Room for Racism campaign has grown a lot over the years and the Premier League, being watched all over the world, has a particularly powerful voice to help educate people around the topic."

Isabella, 10, said: "I asked Ledley if racism had ever stopped him from achieving his goals. He explained how what he’d experienced only made him stronger and more determined, and that was inspiring."

Belvin added: "No Room For Racism is close to my heart, particularly having grown up in this area. You can make a difference through education and I think Tottenham Hotspur, through the Foundation, leads on that in this community.

"The drawings done today have been amazing, but speaking to the kids whilst they were doing them, the great thing is they were able to tell you about the inspiration for them. They’re telling you we should get along and it doesn’t matter where you’re from, what colour your skin is – that’s what it’s all about."

The Foundation is running Easter holiday camps as part of its long-standing delivery of the Premier League Kicks programme that has benefited tens of thousands of young people, including 6,500 in the last five years.

Premier League Kicks, funded by the Premier League through the Premier League Charitable Fund, uses the power of football and sport to inspire young people to reach their potential, in some of the most high-need areas in England and Wales.

It is one of the many ways the Premier League is increasing diversity across football, as outlined in the four-year update shared on its No Room For Racism Action Plan last week.

In 2023/24, 36% of Premier League Kicks participants across the country were from ethnically diverse backgrounds, with that figure growing to almost 70% when looking at participants in our Foundation’s delivery of the programme.