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Rangers - WWWWD ----- Spurs - LLDDW
The Europa league offers up a Battle of Britain tonight, when Scottish giants Rangers welcome us to Ibrox. Both clubs are in contention to finish in the top eight of the league phase, despite underwhelming domestically this season, ahead of the first meeting between us in over six decades.
Our Aussie manager won six of his 11 Old Firm derbies in charge of Celtic, and beat Rangers to the title in both of his seasons at the club, so there will be no love lost from the home crowd on his return. Postecoglou goes into this tie under increasing pressure though, after we threw a 2-0 lead away to lose at home to London rivals Chelsea at the weekend.
That came just a few days after losing 1-0 on the South Coast against Bournemouth, where the scoreline extremely flattered us. The last seven games have now yielded just one win for us, and that came in the remarkable 4-0 success away to Manchester City, meaning we remain in the bottom half of the PL.
This recent run of form has also affected our standing in the Europa League, because we have fallen out of the top eight following two disappointing results against Galatasaray and Roma. No team has spent longer in the lead than us in the Europa League this season (276 minutes), and we led for 80 minutes on matchday five against Roma, but Mats Hummels's injury-time leveller saw them snatch a point in North London.
On our last away trip on the continent, Postecoglou also oversaw a 3-2 defeat in Istanbul, with another scoreline that seriously flattered us, despite still losing. We will therefore hope we can maintain our unbeaten all-time record against Scottish clubs, never tasting defeat in six previous meetings, including winning both legs of their Cup Winners' Cup second round tie with Rangers in 1962, on our way to winning the competition.
REFEREEE
Sandro Scharer

TEAM FORM
Rangers - WWWWD ----- Spurs - LLDDW
The Europa league offers up a Battle of Britain tonight, when Scottish giants Rangers welcome us to Ibrox. Both clubs are in contention to finish in the top eight of the league phase, despite underwhelming domestically this season, ahead of the first meeting between us in over six decades.
Our Aussie manager won six of his 11 Old Firm derbies in charge of Celtic, and beat Rangers to the title in both of his seasons at the club, so there will be no love lost from the home crowd on his return. Postecoglou goes into this tie under increasing pressure though, after we threw a 2-0 lead away to lose at home to London rivals Chelsea at the weekend.
That came just a few days after losing 1-0 on the South Coast against Bournemouth, where the scoreline extremely flattered us. The last seven games have now yielded just one win for us, and that came in the remarkable 4-0 success away to Manchester City, meaning we remain in the bottom half of the PL.
This recent run of form has also affected our standing in the Europa League, because we have fallen out of the top eight following two disappointing results against Galatasaray and Roma. No team has spent longer in the lead than us in the Europa League this season (276 minutes), and we led for 80 minutes on matchday five against Roma, but Mats Hummels's injury-time leveller saw them snatch a point in North London.
On our last away trip on the continent, Postecoglou also oversaw a 3-2 defeat in Istanbul, with another scoreline that seriously flattered us, despite still losing. We will therefore hope we can maintain our unbeaten all-time record against Scottish clubs, never tasting defeat in six previous meetings, including winning both legs of their Cup Winners' Cup second round tie with Rangers in 1962, on our way to winning the competition.
Team News
We saw both centre-backs van deVen and Romero forced off in the defeat to Chelsea with recurrences of the injuries that had made them doubts for that fixture.
Johnson was also taken off due to illness, and Davies suffered a hamstring injury at Bournemouth a few days earlier, joining a lengthening list of absentees for the visitors.
Richarlison, Odobert and Moore all remain out in attack, but Lankshear could feature after serving his European ban in the draw with Roma.
Bentancur should start with his current seven-game ban not applying in European matches, and Bissouma may play alongside him, considering he will be suspended in the Premier League on Sunday at Southampton.
Johnson was also taken off due to illness, and Davies suffered a hamstring injury at Bournemouth a few days earlier, joining a lengthening list of absentees for the visitors.
Richarlison, Odobert and Moore all remain out in attack, but Lankshear could feature after serving his European ban in the draw with Roma.
Bentancur should start with his current seven-game ban not applying in European matches, and Bissouma may play alongside him, considering he will be suspended in the Premier League on Sunday at Southampton.
Head-to-Head
We have never played Rangers for over sixty years, The last being in 1962 when we beat them in both legs of the European Competition