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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 0-2) Stadion Maksimir - Zagreb Thursday 18 March 2021 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Tottenham Hotspur Round of 16, Second leg Last updated 09/04/2021 11:19CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 18 Legend 20 1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 18 March 2021 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - GNK 11/03/2021 R16 2-0 London Kane 25, 70 Dinamo Zagreb UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - GNK Bent 30, 33, 70, 06/11/2008 GS 4-0 London Dinamo Zagreb Huddlestone 59 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA GNK Dinamo Zagreb 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 6 Tottenham Hotspur 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 6 0 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Olmo 10; Jesus 34, 11/12/2019 GS 1-4 Zagreb Manchester City FC 50, 54, Foden 84 Manchester City FC - GNK Sterling 66, Foden 01/10/2019 GS 2-0 Manchester Dinamo Zagreb 90+5 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arsenal FC - GNK Dinamo Özil 29, Alexis 24/11/2015 GS 3-0 London Zagreb Sánchez 33, 69 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Arsenal Pivarić 24, Fernandes 16/09/2015 GS 2-1 Zagreb FC 58; Walcott 79 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arsenal FC - GNK Dinamo 2-1 Ljungberg 78, Flamini 23/08/2006 QR3 London Zagreb agg: 5-1 82; Eduardo 12 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Arsenal Fàbregas 63, 78, Van 08/08/2006 QR3 0-3 Zagreb FC Persie 64 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Fulham FC - GNK Dinamo 2-1 Malbranque 89, Boa 14/11/2002 R2 London Zagreb agg: 5-1 Morte 90; Olić 51 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Fulham Boa Morte 36, Marlet 31/10/2002 R2 0-3 Zagreb FC 60, Hayles 78 2 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 18 March 2021 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Prosinečki 87; GNK Dinamo Zagreb - 27/10/1999 GS1 1-2 Zagreb Beckham 32, Keane Manchester United FC 49 Manchester United FC - GNK 14/09/1999 GS1 0-0 Manchester Dinamo Zagreb UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers D. Šimić 58, GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Newcastle 2-2 Cvitanović 90; Asprilla 27/08/1997 2QR Zagreb United FC agg 3-4 (aet) 44 (P), Ketsbaia 119 ET Newcastle United FC - GNK Beresford 22, 76; 13/08/1997 2QR 2-1 Newcastle Dinamo Zagreb Cvitanović 52 Tottenham Hotspur - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - HNK 2-0 02/10/1991 R1 London Tuttle 6, Durie 14 Hajduk Split agg: 2-1 HNK Hajduk Split - Tottenham 17/09/1991 R1 1-0 Linz Novakovic 52 Hotspur UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - HNK 1-0 25/04/1984 SF London Hazard 7 Hajduk Split agg: 2-2 ag HNK Hajduk Split - Tottenham Gudelj 68, Pesic 77; 11/04/1984 SF 2-1 Split Hotspur Falco 19 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Robertson 23, 83, Gilzean 30, Venables Tottenham Hotspur - HNK 4-3 27/09/1967 R1 London 38; Vardic 81, Hajduk Split agg: 6-3 Mušović 82, Hlevnjak 89 (P) HNK Hajduk Split - Tottenham Robertson 4, Greaves 20/09/1967 R1 0-2 Split Hotspur 88 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA GNK Dinamo Zagreb 6 1 1 4 8 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 14 1 2 11 9 32 Tottenham Hotspur 5 5 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 8 6 0 2 16 6 3 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 18 March 2021 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Match background Tottenham Hotspur have a handy 2-0 first-leg advantage to protect as they travel to Croatia to conclude their UEFA Europa League round of 16 tie against Dinamo Zagreb. • Dinamo are Croatia's last remaining European representatives. They enjoyed a superb autumn in the UEFA Europa League, going unbeaten through Group K as they claimed 14 points to finish first ahead of Wolfsberg, Feyenoord and CSKA Moskva. Then, in the round of 32, they saw off another Russian team, beating Krasnodar 3-2 in Russia and 1-0 at home. • Spurs, who entered the competition in the second qualifying round, topped Group J in the autumn before enjoying a comfortable win over Wolfsberg in the round of 32, taking the tie 8-1 on aggregate (4-1 a, 4-0 h) with Carlos Vinícius supplying three of the eight goals and Gareth Bale two. Previous meetings • Harry Kane was the star of the show in the first leg, the England captain scoring both goals – one in each half – as Spurs ended Dinamo's six-match winning run in the UEFA Europa League by making it six wins out of six at home in this European campaign and five in a row with a clean sheet. • The one encounter between the clubs prior to this tie occurred in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage, Tottenham overcoming Dinamo 4-0 at their former White Hart Lane home with the help of a Darren Bent hat-trick and subsequently reaching the round of 32 at their Croatian rivals' expense. That remains Dinamo's heaviest away defeat in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League. • Dinamo have lost four of their six UEFA home games against English sides, the sole victory coming against Tottenham's local rivals Arsenal (2-1) on Matchday 1 of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League. The most recent Premier League visitors to Zagreb were Manchester City, who beat Dinamo 4-1 in last season's UEFA Champions League group stage. • Although Spurs have won all three previous two-legged ties against Croatian opposition – all against Hajduk Split – they won just one of the away fixtures, losing two, though the most recent took place in the Austrian city of Linz, a 1-0 defeat in the first round of the 1991/92 European Cup Winners' Cup. Their last visit to Croatia brought a 2-1 defeat by Hajduk in the first leg of the 1983/84 UEFA Cup semi-final, but Spurs won the return 1-0 to advance on away goals to the final, which they won on penalties against Anderlecht. Form guide Dinamo • Dinamo romped to their 21st Croatian title last season, completing a hat-trick of 1. HNL triumphs. They also reached the UEFA Champions League group stage for the seventh time, finishing fourth in their section behind Manchester City, Atalanta and Shakhtar Donetsk with five points – their best return in the competition for 20 years. • Dinamo began this European campaign under returning coach Zoran Mamić by overcoming hosts CFR Cluj on penalties in the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round, but then lost 2-1 at Ferencváros before defeating Flora of Estonia 3-1 at home in the UEFA Europa League play-offs to reach the group stage of the competition for the sixth time. As in 2018/19, they won four and drew two of their six games to top the group, getting the better of Feyenoord (0-0 h, 2-0 a), CSKA (0-0 a, 3-1 h) and fellow qualifiers Wolfsberg (1-0 a, 3-0 h). • This is only the second time Dinamo have qualified from a group stage in any continental competition, the previous occasion having come two years ago, when they beat Viktoria Plzeň 4-2 on aggregate in the round of 32 before falling to Benfica in the round of 16 (1-0 h, 0-3 aet a). • Dinamo are undefeated in their last 13 UEFA Europa League home games, qualifiers included, winning ten of them and scoring 26 goals. In European competition overall that defeat by Manchester City in last season's UEFA Champions League is Dinamo's only home loss in 16 matches (W11 D4). • Dinamo have won eight of the 21 UEFA competition ties in which they lost the first away leg, including the most recent when they overcame Plzeň in that round of 32 tie two seasons ago (1-2 a, 3-0 h). They have lost three of the four ties in which they were beaten 2-0 away in the first leg, the only success dating back to the 1964/65 European Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round, when they recovered to knock out AEK Athens with a 3-0 win in the return. Tottenham • Tottenham finished outside the top four of the Premier League for the first time in five seasons in 2019/20, their final position of sixth ending a four-year run in the UEFA Champions League that had taken them into the final in 2018/19 and to the round of 16 last season, where they were eliminated by Leipzig (0-1 h, 0-3 a).