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Steffen Schmidt - March 9, 2021
Tottenham vs Dinamo Zagreb
UEFA Europa League
Date: Thursday, 11 March 2021
Kick-Off at 20.00 UK
Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London.
Tottenham Hotspur will be looking to keep the stellar form going on Thursday evening when they welcome Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb to London in the first game of their Europa League R16 tie.
The Spurs are enjoying a scintillating form these days. They clinched four consecutive victories in all competitions netting four goals in three of these four games during the process.
Jose Mourinho can be thrilled with the form of Gareth Bale who seems to be close to his best at the moment. The Welsh winger has six goals and three assist in the last six appearances for Spurs in all competitions.
He bagged a brace on Sunday afternoon against Crystal Palace, a match which has seen the team’s skipper Harry Kane completing a brace of both goals and assists.
It will be very interesting to see if the Special One will send his strongest line-up here against the Croats, particularly having the North London derby against Arsenal in mind (scheduled for Sunday). If he does, through, Tottenham are enormous favourites here.
Dinamo Zagreb have been one of the most pleasant surprises of this season’s group stage. They conceded only one goal in six group-phase matches and it came in the last round’s clash against CSKA Moscow. They quite comfortably went past Krasnodar in the last 32 round, beating the Russians 2-3 on the road and 1-0 at home.
However, we don’t see them doing much against the in-form and free-scoring Tottenham Hotspur, regardless of all of the numbers and the statistics they have put in this term.
The home win has to be a banker bet at the 1.40 odds. We will be brave enough and back the Spurs to keep a clean sheet as well, something they’ve done in three of the last four outings across competitions.
The home win to nil is paid at the 2.40 odds, while we will also back Tottenham to have the lead at the half time and win the match at the end at the odds of 2.00.
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