UCL: Tottenham vs Man. City Lineups And Team News

Tottenham will be looking to secure a first-leg advantage when they welcome Manchester City to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in their Champions League quarter-final tonight.

Mauricio Pochettino’s side have lost four of their last six league games but they did get back to winning ways with a routine 2-0 win over Crystal Palace last week.

That victory came on the opening of Tottenham new £1billion stadium and Spurs will be hoping the excitement around the new ground tonight will give their players an edge against a formidable City side.

The Citizens remain on course to challenge for an unprecedented quadruple and they were pleased to avoid the likes of Barcelona and Juventus in the quarter-final draw.

Spurs will be without Eric Dier as the midfielder is still recovering from a hip injury while Erik Lamela is also out with a hamstring strain.

Serge Aurier is still nursing his own hamstring complaint so Kieran Trippier will continue at right-back but Fernando Llorente returns to the squad.

Harry Winks is pushing for a recall to the starting eleven after making his injury comeback off the bench against Palace.

Man City have been handed a huge boost as Sergio Aguero is back in contention after recovering from injury so the Argentinean international is expected to start up front.

Full-backs Kyle Walker and Benjamin Mendy are also fit and available for selection but Oleksandr Zinchenko and Fabian Delph are ruled out.

Tottenham vs Man. City Pre Match Insights

This is the first ever European meeting between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City in what is the 157th meeting between the teams in all competitions.
Manchester City have won 11 of their last 16 matches against Spurs (D1 L4), with all those meetings coming in the Premier League; they’ve won their last three in a row.
Spurs haven’t faced an English team in a European competition since April 1973, when they faced – and were eliminated by – Liverpool in the 1972-73 UEFA Cup semi-final.
Manchester City have lost all four of their European matches against English opponents, losing both legs of the 1970-71 Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final against Chelsea and both legs of last season’s Champions League quarter-final against Liverpool.
Spurs are competing in only their second Champions League quarter-final, losing previously 0-5 on aggregate to Real Madrid in 2010-11; in all European competition, Spurs have been eliminated from their last five quarter-final ties, most recently in the 2012-13 Europa League against FC Basel.

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Tottenham vs Man. City Lineups

Tottenham (4-2-3-1) Lineup