Tottenham XI vs Bodo/Glimt: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injury latest for Europa League | OneFootball

Mathys Tel likely to get nod on left wing with Spurs without captain for first-leg showdown

Ruled out: Tottenham will be without Heung-min Son for the first leg against Bodo/Glimt

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Ange Postecoglou has no fresh injury concerns ahead of the crunch Europa League first leg against Bodo/Glimt, with captain Heung-min Son still sidelined with a foot injury.

Dejan Kulusevski is likely to start but Postecoglou faces a decision over where to play the Swede, who could come in at No10 for James Maddison or replace Brennan Johnson on the right wing.

Playing Kulusevski in the front three would give Spurs more energy in the middle but he is less of a goal-threat than Johnson.

Postecoglou also faces a decision at full-back, with Pedro Porro, Destiny Udogie and Djed Spence competing for two places.

Spence has gone off the boil in recent weeks, while Udogie was preferred at left-back in both legs of the quarter-final against Eintracht Frankfurt, so the Italian and Porro seem likeliest to get the nod.

Elsewhere, Postecoglou's XI should be easy to predict. Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven will return to the back line after being rested for the chastening 5-1 defeat to Liverpool, while Lucas Bergvall and Rodrigo Bentancur have established themselves as the head coach's preferred midfield two.

Guglielmo Vicario has been shaky of late but remains Spurs' No1 goalkeeper and a dressing-room leader, while Dominic Solanke will lead the line.

Radu Dragusin is Spurs' only long-term absentee with a cruciate ligament injury which will keep him out until next season, while Antonin Kinsky, Sergio Reguilon and Timo Werner are ineligible in Europe.

Predicted Tottenham XI (4-3-3): Vicario; Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie; Bentancur, Bergvall, Maddison; Kulusevski, Solanke, Tel

Injured: Dragusin, Son

Ineligible: Kinsky, Werner, Forster, Reguilon

Time and date: 8pm BST on Thursday May 1, 2025

Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium