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Premium nutritional drinks brand EXALT has announced a new partnership with Tottenham Hotspur Women, expanding on its existing relationship with the Men’s First Team.

Having already worked with Spurs’ men’s squad, this new partnership epitomises the growth and visibility of Women’s football, continuing its mission to lead innovation in elite nutrition.

EXALT produces the UK’s only fresh, ready-to-drink nutritional smoothie and offers a full range of cold-pressed juices and functional shots. Each recipe is handcrafted in London by a team of expert dietitians and nutritionists, using only whole food ingredients chosen for their proven benefits.

Working closely with Hannah Sheridan, Head of Women’s Sport Science at Tottenham Hotspur, EXALT has developed a bespoke programme tailored to the needs of the players across the season. The range includes handcrafted, science-backed recipes, designed to support recovery and day-to-day wellness.

Each formulation aligns with Tottenham Hotspur Women’s wider performance strategy and is cold-pressed using HPP (High Pressure Processing) to preserve nutrient integrity and naturally extend shelf life, ensuring the squad receives a high-quality, consistent product to power them through every stage of competition.

Hannah Sheridan, Head of Women’s Sport Science at Tottenham Hotspur, said: 'We are really excited to have extended the EXALT partnership over to the Women’s team; We have a shared passion to innovate products that truly support the health of our players. The women’s game is growing at an incredible pace, with the fixture becoming increasingly busy, making recovery more important than ever. Through this collaboration, we are eager to create products that not only enhance performance and recovery but also promote overall health and well-being, using the power of whole foods and natural ingredients to help our players feel their best.’

Ian Arnold, Partnerships Manager at EXALT, said: “Having worked with the Men’s Team, it fills us with real pride to now support the Women’s Team too. We’re passionate about fuelling athletes at every level and being part of the wider movement driving women’s sport forward. Tottenham Hotspur Women share our values around innovation and player care, so this collaboration feels like a perfect fit.”

Charlie Wilson-Vaughan, Co-Founder at EXALT, said: “This partnership is a powerful reflection of where the game is heading. Women’s football is growing rapidly and it deserves the same access to premium sports nutrition as any elite environment. We’re proud that EXALT can play a part in supporting that progress.”

Dan Wilson-Vaughan, Co-Founder at EXALT, added: “Our collaboration with Tottenham Hotspur Women is about more than supplying drinks, it’s about building meaningful relationships with teams who share our commitment to excellence and wellbeing. To see our products used by both the Men’s and Women’s squads is a proud moment for us and a testament to our team’s hard work.”

It's quiz time! Can you name every men's senior side to have played a competitive game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

After the visit of FC Copenhagen to N17 for the first time on Tuesday evening, we are challenging you to name every side that has faced us at our world-class home since it opened in April, 2019?

Since doors opened to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium over six years ago, we have seen 56 different men's senior sides make the trip to north London. Can you name them all?

To take on the challenge, click the green 'Play Quiz' button below to get started before inputting your answers in the box titled 'enter team'.

You will have 15 minutes to name as many of the 56 teams as you can. To help, the country the team is from is listed above their relevant answer box.

Gallery: Sights set on London derby  Tottenham Hotspur

It’s been a busy week for our players on international duty for England’s youth sides.

Malachi Hardy and Luca Williams-Barnett were in action for the Young Lions as they began their Under-17 World Cup campaign with a 3-0 defeat to Venezuela in Qatar on Tuesday.

Defender Malachi played the full game while attacking midfielder Luca came off the bench in the 69th minute, but two quick goals at the end of the first half followed by a late third consigned England to defeat in Group E.

Malachi and Luca are our two sole representatives at the tournament after Elijah Upson unfortunately had to withdraw in the days leading up to the opening game. Jun’ai Byfield and Tynan Thompson also withdrew last week.

England next face Haiti on Friday (12.30pm UK) before taking on Egypt on Monday (3.45pm UK).

In addition to the World Cup, England’s youngsters have also been in European Under-17 Championship qualifying action in Scotland over the last few days, with Oliver Boast and Oscar Sandiford featuring across their three games.

Centre-forward Oliver scored a penalty in a 5-3 defeat to Sweden in their third and final match on Monday, but the Young Lions had already been eliminated by that stage after back-to-back 1-0 defeats against Scotland (28 October) and Lithuania (31 October).

It is striking just how similar Micky van de Ven's wonder strike against Copenhagen on Tuesday night was to Heung-Min Son's Puskas-winning strike against Burnley back in 2019.

Getting on for six years to the day since Sonny stunned the world with his remarkable speed, skills and agility to run over 80 yards with the ball while weaving through a well-organised Burnley defence before finishing expertly, Micky reimagined that goal in his own breathtaking way.

Picking the ball up on the edge of our area, a matter of yards away from where Sonny received the ball from Jan Vertonghen back in December, 2019, our lightning-paced Dutch centre half then took flight down the pitch, literally running around defenders with a few jinks of the ball before bearing down on goal and dispatching a finish that any centre forward would be proud of.

What is remarkable about Micky's goal is that Sonny's strike was so rare, so unexpected, so unique that it was felt that such a goal almost a once in a generation occurrence. Yes, players can pick up the ball from the halfway line, run and then score but to do it from box to box, it very rare. Then for it to be two players to do it for the same team, at the same stadium, in the same goal, just six years apart just makes Micky's effort extraordinary. Oh, and he is also a centre-back by trade....

But just how similar were the two goals in terms of how they played out, what each player was up against and the decisions they took along the way?

Well let's look at the goals, frame by frame....

Receiving the ball

Again, in the second phase of the play, the players are not that far away from each other and their instincts were in tune as they seemingly both take a moment to assess their options.

While Sonny (below) has a bit more time and space to decide what he is going to do with the ball - which isn't always the best situation - Micky has to first surge between two Copenhagen players to get away from their challenges before he has a very slender amount of time to assess what his options are.

Ultimately, both players decided to have a go and look to get as far up the pitch as they could, but their biggest tests still remained.

Perhaps the key play in the move, it is once again an almost identical picture - albeit the Copenhagen defensive line is higher - as both players advance to the halfway line where they are surrounded by five opponents.

Yet, while they have so many opposition players around them, it is noticeable that their attention is only on one player, and that is the one standing directly in front of them.

As long as they keep control of the ball in this moment - which they did impeccably - they just have to beat that one man as their speed will keep them ahead of the chasing pack while it should also be enough to escpae the attentions of covering man.

Wilson Odobert became our third-youngest UEFA Champions League goalscorer with his strike in our 4-0 win over FC Copenhagen on Tuesday night.

Leading 1-0 at the break through Brennan Johnson's first Champions League goal, Wilson also opened his account in the European competition when he doubled our lead six minutes after the restart thanks to a sublime assist from Randal Kolo Muani.

The striker, having closed down goalkeeper Dominik Kotarski's attempted clearance from just outside the Copenhagen penalty area, then expertly plucked the high, moving ball out of the night sky inside the box before showing awareness to lay off his compatriot who applied the first-time finish into the bottom corner.

That means Wilson - who turns 21 at the end of this month - sits in third place (20y 341d) behind Dele (20y 240d) vs CSKA Moskva in December 2016 and Ryan Sessegnon (19y 207d) against Bayern in 2019.

Coming in our final outing in Group E, Dele half-volleyed in Christian Eriksen's cross to level against CSKA to become our youngest-ever Champions League goalscorer at the time as we went on to win 3-1 to secure third spot and qualify for the Europa League knockouts.

Three years and four days later, Sessegnon broke the record when he netted the equaliser at the Allianz Arena in our eventual 3-1 defeat to Bayern Munich with both sides already qualified for the knockouts in the Group B finale on 11 December 2019. Making his full debut that night, Ryan remains our one and only teenager to achieve this feat in the Champions League.

Moving like an F1 car, life suddenly stood still for Micky van de Ven in front of 17,500 fans in the South Stand.

Having travelled 67.7 metres in 10 seconds, leaving five players trailing in his wake, Micky was confronted by Dominik Kotarski in the Copenhagen goal, and just knew he had to finish it off – which he did in style, a firm, precise side foot home.

Asked what it felt like in the moment, the defender’s first words to us were: “I need to score! That was the thing, at the last point when you arrived at the box, you're just like, nah, I need to finish this one.”

The goal is so similar in style and execution to Heung-Min Son’s FIFA Puskas Award winner against Burnley back in December, 2019, where Sonny took so much care to finish his run, and told us afterwards he absolutely made sure once he was in front of goal.

“I get the ball in our own box, and every time I saw a little gap of space in front of me, and I started dribbling, I was like, hey, every time I can get a bit more," added Micky. "I know when I get my speed and acceleration it's difficult to catch up sometimes, and then in one way I was like, hey, I'm through. I was like, ‘I'm going all the way now’, just try to score.

“When I came through, to be honest, in my head I was like, ‘I know my strike is quite good, my left inside foot is quite strong’ but, at this point, you just say in your head, ‘I need to score this one, man’.

“Another team-mate was next to me, I don't know who it was, and I know their centre-back was in the middle, and of course at one point he needs to make a decision. I was like, ‘nah, I keep going all the way now’ and just try to shoot a short corner. To be honest, I haven't seen it go in. I just heard everyone celebrating, I just knew I had to score.”

Micky was joined by Brennan Johnson, Wilson Odobert and Joao Palhinha on the scoresheet as we dominated to take a 2-0 lead, and then stepped up another gear with goals three and four in the immediate aftermath of Brennan’s red card in the second half. Micky agreed that it was a result and performance everyone needed after the weekend defeat against Chelsea.

“Yeah, a really important one,” he added. “We had a tough one at the weekend, of course, the derby against Chelsea that we lost, bad performance from our side. We knew it, we all knew it - everybody was gutted after the Chelsea game.

“We needed to switch on, because we needed to play Copenhagen at home, but we were gutted, I can tell you now. The atmosphere was not really good, but we bounced back in a perfect way, I would say.

“We had a really good performance today, even when Brendan got sent off. It's really difficult at that point when you're like, okay, 10 men, I think it was 30 minutes ago or something, so that's quite a long time and it can get you in some trouble, but I think our heads were still cool after that point, and I think we did really well.”

Our Women Under-19s concluded the first phase of the Professional Game Academy League campaign with a 2-1 defeat at Bristol City on Wednesday.

We got off to the perfect start on our return to league action when Heidi Hills made it five goals in two games after she reacted quickest to Mia Endacott’s penalty being saved to slot home on the rebound inside the opening six minutes.

The Robins responded and were back on level terms by the midway point of the first half. A powerful left-footed strike from Chloe Giddings past Sophie Jackson, before the home side took the lead deep in injury-time of the opening 45 minutes as Giddings grabbed a brace with a composed finish.

In a second period hampered by injuries and stoppages in play, we were unable to find an equaliser and consigned to defeat in our final fixture of the first phase. Our young side will now compete in Division Two once the second phase begins later this month.

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Our fine win 4-0 against FC Copenhagen in MD4 of this season's UEFA Champions League had us quickly leafing through the club's history books.

Had we registered four different goalscorers in a UCL match before? And what if we go back almost 65 years to our first appearance in the competition, in the old format of the European Cup (the UCL format was introduced in 1992/93)?

Well, that box was ticked in our first tie and first home game in the European Cup - a legendary 8-1 win against Poland champions Gornik Zabzre in September, 1961 when five players were on the scoresheet and what we know as the 'glory, glory nights' in N17 were born.

Bill Nicholson's double winners were rocked by a 4-2 loss in Poland in the first leg of the preliminary round on 13 September, 1961 but turned it around in style, roared on by 56,737 in the Lane, to rack up eight goals - Cliff Jones led the way with a hat-trick with a double from Bobby Smith and skipper Danny Blanchflower, Terry Dyson and John White also on target.

That famous night remains our record win in the competition and the only time we've registered five different goalscorers in a European Cup/UCL match.

UCL era

So, if you now bring it forward to the UCL era, Tuesday night's win against the Danish Superliga champions represents the first time we've registered four different goalscorers in the competition with Brennan Johnson, Wilson Odobert, Micky van de Ven and Joao Palhinha on target.

It's the sixth time we've registered four-plus goals - a 5-0 win against Serbia side Crvena zvezda (Red Star) the best win - and if you bring both European Cup and Champions League eras together, we've now scored four-plus on eight occasions.

EC/UCL | 4+ goals | 4 different goalscorers

Blanchflower, Dyson, Jones 3, Smith 2, White

Johnson, Odobert, van de Ven, Palhinha

Our impressive unbeaten run at home in European competitions continued on Tuesday night.

Back at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the visit of FC Copenhagen, we ran out 4-0 winners to extend our run at our N17 home to 22 matches without defeat in UEFA Competitions.

In a game which had a bit of everything, Brennan Johnson opened his Champions League goalscoring account with the opener 19 minutes in before Wilson Odobert was unselfishly teed up by Randal Kolo Muani six minutes into the second half to put us two to the good.

Shortly after though, it looked like all momentum would switch in the game as a VAR review saw us down to 10 men with Brennan seeing red, however we actually ended up getting even better, scoring twice more - first of all a goal of the season contender from Micky van de Ven before Joao Palhinha came off the bench to add a fourth.

We could have even more late on with Richarlison twice hitting the crossbar, first from a header before thumping it again from the penalty spot.

Currently unbeaten after four games in this year's League Phase with two home wins and two draws on the road, it has been well over five years since we suffered defeat at home in Europe.

That loss came via Bundesliga side RB Leipzig, who secured a 1-0 victory in the UCL Round of 16 first leg here in February, 2020, before finishing the job in Germany.

Since then, we've put together a sequence of 18 wins and four draws - scoring 60 goals and conceding just 13 - in 22 home matches in all three UEFA competitions - Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

Sporting CP, AC Milan, Eintracht Frankfurt and AS Roma are the only teams to take a draw away from N17 in that period.

Our unbeaten home run in Europe...

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Our last home defeat in Europe...