Only a couple of weeks into the new season, Tottenham Hotspur faces one of the most important matches of the campaign as Nuno Espirito Santo’s team needs to overcome a 1-0 deficit against Pacos de Ferreira to get into the UEFA Conference League group stage.
Bookmaker 10Bet has the odds at 1.60 for Tottenham to win by at least two goals and at 2.75 for them to score at least three more goals than Pacos.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: August 25th, 9:00 A.M. (EST)
Spurs have received a huge boost ahead of the contest with Harry Kane announcing that he will be staying at the club this summer.
The England captain finally made his season debut last weekend coming off the bench in a 1-0 victory over Wolverhampton. Nuno has said that Kane still needs to work on his fitness, but it was a decent cameo and most of the fans gave him a warm reception, which might have been the decisive factor that made him change his mind over his transfer wish to Manchester City.
With the European season on the line, Kane is also expected to feature on Thursday. Tottenham look to be in trouble, but Nuno took a very young team to Portugal for the first leg and played the match with his fringe players. A full-strength Spurs side should be too good to handle for the Portuguese team.
Pacos are back in Europe for the first time since 2013 when they even featured in the Champions League qualifiers thanks to a third-place finish in the Primeira Liga. The club took a nosedive following the sudden success and even got relegated from the top flight in 2018.
Taking down the North London giants and getting into the Conference League group stage would definitely be among the biggest achievements the club has ever had.
Their situation ahead of the clash doesn’t look very promising though with the team struggling to get results. The win over Tottenham is Pacos’ only victory in their last four outings and all the other matches have ended in defeats. The team has scored just once in the losses.
Meanwhile, Tottenham are off to a hot start to the Premier League. They are one of five sides with a perfect record following two rounds of action and the wins include a very impressive 1-0 result at home against Manchester City.
Nuno wasn’t even the third choice when Daniel Levy looked for a successor to Jose Mourinho, but the Wolves boss has quickly started to show that he is indeed the perfect man for the job. He will no doubt win over a few more skeptics with a good result on Thursday.
