With top-four chances in the league looking rather slim, Mourinho’s men will be determined to qualify for the next phase of the competition.
European football does not take a pause after two sets of enthralling Champions League fixtures. It now takes the form of the Europa League, which is back with a set of Round-of-32 fixtures this week.
Here, we cover one of the 16 matches to be played on an action-packed Thursday: Wolfsberger vs Tottenham
The Austrian side will play host to the Premier League team for the first leg, albeit in a neutral venue at the Puskas Arena in the Hungarian capital Budapest due to coronavirus restrictions.
Wolfsberger vs Tottenham Form:
Wolfsberg booked a place in the knockout stages of a major European competition for the first time in their history by finishing runners-up in Group K, above CSKA Moscow and Feyenoord.
Tottenham, on the other hand, made it past the Europa League group stages for the 10th time by securing Group J top-spot, incurring only a single loss in six games.
Ferdinand Feldhofer’s team have won half of their last six fixtures across all competitions, losing twice and drawing once. A 2-1 win recorded in the Austrian Bundesliga is their latest result.
The team managed by Jose Mourinho, meanwhile, are in dreadful form. They have lost five of their last six games in all competitions and come off the back of a 3-0 defeat against Manchester City in the Premier League.
Another bothersome fact is that since 2013, they have failed to win the first leg in each of their seven knockout ties in this competition.
Wolfsberger vs Tottenham Head-to-head:
Thursday evening will mark the first meeting between the two sides.
Wolfsberger vs Tottenham Team News:
For the ‘home’ side, injured midfielders Eliel Peretz and Mario Leitgeb are expected to be missing.
The visitors will be without some of their key players in Giovani Lo Celso, Sergio Reguilon, Serge Aurier. Joe Rodon, meanwhile, is ineligible to play in Europe.
Wolfsberger (4-1-3-2): Kofler; Novak, Baumgartner, Lochoshvili, Scherzer; Stratnig; Taferner, Liendl, Sprangler; Vizinger, Joveljic
Tottenham (4-2-3-1): Hart; Doherty, Sanchez, Tanganga, Davies; Winks, Sissoko; Bale, Alli, Lucas; Vinicius
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