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Match Preview for AZ Alkmaar v Tottenham
AZ Alkmaar welcome Tottenham to the Netherlands for his or her last-16 Europa League first leg on Thursday.
Spurs have one final shot at profitable silverware this season and they are going to be extra decided than ever to lastly give their followers a second price celebrating.
It has been a tricky 12 months for Ange Postecoglou and Co, however they’ve began to restore themselves, profitable consecutive Premier League video games towards Brentford, Manchester United and Ipswich.
They did fall to Manchester Metropolis final outing, however Postecoglou rested key gamers forward of this essential tie in Europe.
Spurs have already overwhelmed AZ within the Europa League this season, profitable 1-0 courtesy of a Richarlison penalty in North London.
Ex-academy product Troy Parrott has been on advantageous type for his new membership and might be eager to make his mark when the 2 sides do battle once more.
The Premier League giants stay the bookies’ favorite to win the competitors, however it could mark success within the competitors for the primary time since 1984.
AZ got here via the play-offs, surprisingly knocking out Galatasaray and there’s no doubt they may using a wave of momentum heading into the sport.
Have a look behind the scenes at coaching forward of the journey to the Netherlands 👀 pic.twitter.com/QFgHmiNJak
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) March 4, 2025
Group information for AZ Alkmaar v Tottenham
There’s some excellent news and dangerous information for Spurs heading to Alkmaar.
Micky van de ven, Cristian Romero and Dominic Solanke all returned to coaching within the week and can be found to choice.
Spurs followers are but to see Romero and Van de Ven collectively in 2025 and the pair are thought to be two of the membership’s greatest gamers.
So it will likely be an enormous increase to see them again in lilywhite for the guests.
The dangerous information is that Dejan Kulusevski has picked up a foot damage and was seen carrying a protecting boot in his newest Instagram publish.
He’s anticipated to overlook each video games this season, with additional checks being executed to look at the extent of his damage.
Radu Dragusin and Richarlison stay out, whereas Antonin Kinsky, Timo Werner and Sergio Reguilon weren’t registered for the squad.
Alkmaar might be with out key midfielder Sven Mijnans, Jayden Addai can also be sidelined, whereas Ruben van Bommel and Mexx Meerdink are each uncertain.
Anticipated line-ups for AZ Alkmaar v Tottenham
AZ Alkmaar: Owusu-Oduro; Maikuma, Goes, Penetra, De Wit; Clasie, Koopmeiners; Poku, Buurmeester, Lahdo; Parrott
Tottenham: Vicario; Spence, Grey, Danso, Udogie; Maddison, Bentancur, Bergvall; Johnson, Tel, Son
🤩 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰!
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— AZ (@AZAlkmaar) February 28, 2025
Methods to watch AZ Alkmaar v Tottenham: TV channel, on-line stream
The match might be proven on TNT Sports activities 3, with kick-off at 17:45. Followers within the UK also can stream the sport on the invention+ app.
The Stats for AZ Alkmaar v Tottenham
AZ Alkmaar have received the final 3 house matches in a row whereas scoring greater than 1.5 goalsIn the final 3 AZ Alkmaar matches within the Europa League, the variety of targets was over 3.5Spurs have received 7 of their final 11 video games in main European competitors towards Dutch opposition (D2 L2)De Kaasboeren, who’ve received solely 2 of their earlier 19 conferences with English golf equipment, have scored 19 Europa League targets this seasonOnly three groups have netted extra targets than AZ Alkmaar within the Europa League this season; they haven’t scored greater than 20 targets in a serious European season since 2006-07 (26).
