The race for UEFA Champions League places may be the most important at Boxing Pace as fourth-placed Nottingham Jungle host 11th-placed Tottenham Hotspur.
The jungle, led by former Spurs coach Nuno Espirito Santo, are the most astonishing stories of the season and supremacy in the hunt for the top four, but it will be a competitive race until the end of the series. The top nine separated Jungle from 13th-placed Manchester United, meaning 10 teams feel a place in Europe’s biggest club tournament is within reach with part of the season ahead. That comes with Spurs, who have everything the team had to win on Thursday but will have to find some balance to ensure they can get off the table in the second half of the campaign.
Here’s what you need to know before you tune in.
How you can attend and probabilities
- Time: Thursday December 26 | Passed: 10 a.m. Eastern Time
- Location: Town Grasslands – West Bridgford, England
- They are living the flow: Peacock
- Odd: Nottingham Jungle +135; Draw +260; Tottenham Hotspur +185
Arguments
Tottenham’s up-and-down season reaches another round of ups and downs in the latest isolated generation, advancing to the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup after a 4-3 win over Manchester United and after losing a wild match 6- 3 against Liverpool on Sunday. I’m Ready’s results leave them with just three wins from their 11 finishes in all competitions, reflecting a picture of inconsistency that has upset many after a positive start under manager Ange Postecoglou at the end of the season. .
Spurs remain the best attacking team in the Premier League, the league with 39 goals in 17 games, surpassing their expected goal tally of 32.46. It is a sign that nothing less than one thing It suits Postecoglou, who prefers an offensive-minded tactical strategy and has overseen the Spurs’ ride in this area. The team is averaging 2.3 goals per game in the league this season, a significant increase from its 1.9 goals average based on the season-ending game based on an equivalent shot count and expected goals. Goals also come from a host of players – five players have more than seven goals in all competitions, including impressive goalscorer Brennan Johnson and unused addition Dominic Solanke.
Defense has been a point of competition in recent weeks for Spurs, who have conceded 23 goals in their last 11 games. They have had to play games without base goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario and centre-backs Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven for much of this stretch, which has cost them a lot. Vicario’s understudy, Fraser Forster, needs compatibility with Postecoglou’s tactical system and has made several personal errors that resulted in goals, a year in which substitute centre-back Radu Dragusin was someone Liverpool targeted and discovered well during the end of week. Many have called on Postecoglou to change his own stylistic tastes to account for defensive issues despite his status throughout his strategies and suggested the move is not as easy as some recommend.
“If people want me to change my approach, that’s not going to change,” Postecoglou said after Sunday’s game, according to Night Same Old. “We do it for a reason, we do it because we believe it will help us be successful. If people don’t understand the circumstances we find ourselves in right now, the challenges we have from a team perspective, which are as obvious as If you want to do them, I have this idea that people think they should just flip a switch and change and somehow that will miraculously make us a better team. It is what it is, I’m just going to continue, stay focused on trying to build this. team to be the team we want While. Therefore, we will accept that there will be challenges along the way.
projected alignment
Tottenham: Forster, Porro, Dragusin, Grey, Spence, Sarr, Bentancur, Kulusevski, Maddison, Johnson, Solanke
Prediction
Tottenham are capable of scoring against most teams, even those as defensively strong as Jungle, who have conceded just 19 goals in league games this season. The visitors will also have the advantage of playing a team that doesn’t score a number (Jungle has just 23 goals this season), but their ability to concede silly mistakes could lead teams to make up for problems. Select: Nottingham Jungle 1, Tottenham Hotspur 1
