TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR continue their Champions League campaign with a tough trip to Portugal on tonight where Sporting Lisbon await.
Spurs will be full of confidence having comfortably dispatched Marseille in their opening Group D game, but Sporting also won their opener 3-0 against Frankfurt.
- Start time: 5.45pm BST
- TV/Live stream: BT Sport 4
- Sporting Lisbon XI: Adan, Inacio, Coates, Reis, Porro, Morita, Ugarte, Santos, Trincao, Edwards, Goncalves
- Tottenham XI: Lloris, Royal, Romero, Dier, Davies, Perisic, Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Richarlison, Son, Kane
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What time does Sporting vs Tottenham kick off?
- Sporting Lisbon are set to entertain Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday, September 13.
- It is scheduled to kick off early at 5:45pm UK time – same time locally.
- Estadio Jose Alvalde in Lisbon, Portugal is the allocated arena for this exciting encounter and it can host around 50,095 fans.
- Spurs were held to a 2-2 draw when the sides last met in a friendly during the summer of 2010.
What TV channel is Sporting vs Tottenham on and can I live stream it?
- Sporting Lisbon vs Tottenham Hotspur will be broadcasted LIVE on BT Sport 4 in the UK.
- Subscription holders of BT Sport can stream the entire action live via the BT Sport website or BT Sport app.
Tottenham starting XI:
The big news for Spurs fans is that Ben Davies take his place again and more importantly Conte has gone with a front three of Richarlison, Kane and Son.
1. Lloris, 17. Romero, 15. Dier, 33. Davies, 12. Royal, 5. Højbjerg, 30. Bentancur, 14. Perisic, 9. Richarlison, 7. Son, 10. Kane
Credit: @SpursOfficial Sporting subs:
12. Israel, 22. Paulo, 6. Sotiris, 16. Rochina, 18. Fatawu, 20. Paulinho, 47. de Sousa Esgaio, 63. Marsa, 71. Nazinho, 33. Gomes Lourenço
Sporting starting XI:
Ruben Amorim will be glad he has his three centre backs available to him this evening with the attacking threat Tottenham pose.
1. Adan, 25. Inacio, 4. Coates, 2. de Lima, 24. Porro, 5. Morita, 15. Ugarte, 11. dos Santos, 17. Trincao, 10. Edwards, 28. Goncalves.
Credit: @Sporting_CP
Spurs make perfect start
Tottenham find themselves second in the group by goal difference.
After beating 10-man Marseille 2-0 in their opening match, Conte will be looking to continue their form in Portugal.
The North London side did look indifferent at times and with the enforced rest recently should be firing on all cylinders tonight.
The Lions can still roar
While Antonio Conte’s side will be huge favourites this evening, Sporting hammered Frankfurt 3-0 in their opening game.
They sit top of the group on goal difference.
Former Tottenham youngster, Marcus Edwards, stole the spotlight with a goal and an assist in the game and may have a point to prove tonight against a side he failed to make the grade at.
Spurs favourites to dominate group
Sporting’s coach has spoken about how he sees this season’s Champions League excpectations:
Tottenham are clear favourites in the group, they are a team that have one of the best attacks in the world with a winning coach in Italy and England and world-class players.
Ruben Amorim
Conte has added backbone
Tottenham fans rarely are able to enjoy an unbeaten start to the season, Antonio Conte appears to have address their often-crumbling spine of the team and made them difficult to beat.
Coming back from 2-0 down against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge to draw 2-2 late on shows how the Italian’s side have a fire inside them to win any game.
It is resulting in the North London outfit proving very difficult to beat, something Man City may have been happy to avoid until later in the season right now.
Italian coach bemoans demands
The Tottenham coach gave his thoughts on what is being asked of his players in a season with a World Cup in Qatar thrown into the middle of it:
When you play every three days, you run the risk of having more injuries and less energy. The postponement of the game against [Man] City has allowed me to change the idea of the team I had in mind for the game.
Antonio Conte
Brazilian to make history in Lisbon
If Richarlison scores a double this evening, he would become only the second player in Champions League history to do so in the opening two games of the tournament.
The last person to do so was Diego Simeone of Atletico Madrid.
He scored in a 4-0 win over Steua Bucharest before repeating the feat in a 4-1 victory over Widzew Lodzin.
Welcome to Sporting vs Tottenham
Antonio Conte takes his Tottenham side to Lisbon this evening having had a rare weekend break from Premier League action after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, with a country in morning for the long-serving monarch.
The Italian said “I want to give condolences from me, from the club, from the players to the Royal Family. Then football has to go ahead and we will do it, but I think the Premier League made an important decision to stop football and show respect for the death of the Queen.”
Lucas Moura will miss the game for Tottenham and has not travelled, while Bryan Gil will fill in for the Brazilian who has struggled to shake off recent injury.
Jeremiah St Juste had to be taken off with a muscular problem against Frankfurt and is a big doubt for this evening’s encounter.
Goncalo Inacio and Luis Neto added to Sporting’s defensive woes when they were forced off early in their league game on the weekend, although the latter was more precautionary.
Clement Lenglet and Richarlison will be hoping to condemn Dejan Kulusevski and Ben Davies to the bench in Portugal.
Jovan Cabral is out for The Lions but Paulinho is back in contention to feature.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
