Eintracht Frankfurt vs Tottenham, Champions League live: score and latest updates

Aand welcome to live coverage of Eintracht Frankfurt, the Europa League holders and Tottenham Hotspur in the third round of the Champions League Group D matches. Both sides have so far taken victories over Marseille in the league and defeats to Sporting and will go into tonight’s game looking for the jacket-tails of the Lisbon club in second place (or perhaps a leapfrog as they 3- 1 behind on the Velodrome!)

The two have met once before in Europe, in the quarter-final of the two-legged Cup Winners’ Cup, which was won 3-2 by Spurs in 1981-82 thanks to Glenn Hoddle’s goal at the Waldstadion. Antonio Conte takes them to this match after addressing his critics yesterday who accused him of being over-cautious and sending teams with tactics and set up in a system that is at odds with ‘audere est facere’ and the club’s most cherished traditions. .

His defense of his… er… defensiveness is that “daddy knows best.” They have to trust that he lays the foundation for a winning mentality and that comes from taking as few risks as possible at the back end. He is always quite biting when criticized and his record entitles him to set up Tottenham any way he wants. In these eyes, all it would take to stay as safe as possible in the back and address the shortcomings in midfield would be to tweak from 3-4-3 to 3-5-2 with Oliver Skipp or Yves Bissouma in midfield and, when fit, with Dejan Kulusevski as right back. But of course ‘daddy knows best’.

Eintracht Frankfurt have lost Filip Kostic to the team that played for West Ham and Rangers in the Europa League last season, but have indeed landed a rare beat, a man scoring the winning goal in a World Cup final. Mario Gotze has suffered a lot over the past ten years, but it’s great to see him doing so well on his return to the Bundesliga. five.

Lucas Moura and Ben Davies are missing from the Spurs roster. Eintracht Frankfurt has ruled Kristijan Jakic and Jerome Onguene.

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