On Wednesday, Tottenham Hotspur will host high-flying Ligue 1 team Marseille in its first UEFA Champions League match since the 2019–20 campaign.
This match will taste the previous North London derbies thanks to the presence of Nuno Tavares, who is on loan from Arsenal, Matteo Guendouzi, Alexis Sanchez, Sead Kolasinac, and others for Marseille.
The match kicks off at 3 pm ET Wednesday, just over 2 hours after Group D action kicks off in Germany between Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt and Portugal's Sporting Lisbon.
Tuesday's games saw Pep Guardiola very pleased with Man City's demolition of Sevilla in Spain and what turned out to be the final game for Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea, as the Blues were punished 1-0 away to Dinamo Zagreb.
This will be Tottenham's first UCL match since bowing out to RB Leipzig in the 2019-20 tournament. Since then, Spurs went to the Europa League Round of 16 and crashed out of the Europa Conference League in the group stage.
Marseille qualified via a second-place result in Ligue 1, 15 points behind Paris Saint-Germain and two clear third-place AS Monaco. Les Phocéens is off to a brilliant start this season, with five wins and a draw to match PSG. With players like Eric Bailly, Alexis Sanchez, Nuno Tavares, Dimitri Payet, and Matteo Guendouzi, the club is owned by former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Frank McCourt. Marseille will likely play a 3-4-2-1 formation.
The only injuries Spurs have to worry about are Lucas Moura's absence and Bryan Gil's return to training.
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