UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Bosuil - Deurne Thursday 29 October 2020 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Royal Antwerp FC Group J - Matchday 2 Tottenham Hotspur Last updated 19/03/2021 11:35CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 Royal Antwerp FC - Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 29 October 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Bosuil, Deurne Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Royal Antwerp FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Lee 10, Cole 26, 40, Newcastle United FC - Royal 5-2 88, Beardsley 35 (P); 27/09/1994 R1 Newcastle Antwerp FC agg: 10-2 Kiekens 75, Severeyns 76 Royal Antwerp FC - Newcastle Lee 1, 9, 49, Sellars 13/09/1994 R1 0-5 Deurne United FC 39, Watson 79 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Aston Villa FC - Royal Antwerp 0-1 01/10/1975 R1 Birmingham Kodat 18 FC agg: 1-5 Heylingen 26, Kodat Royal Antwerp FC - Aston Villa 17/09/1975 R1 4-1 Deurne 32, 35, 43; Graydon FC 77 Tottenham Hotspur - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eriksen 10, Wanyama 2-2 23/02/2017 R32 Tottenham Hotspur - KAA Gent London 61; Kane 20 (og), agg: 2-3 Perbet 82 16/02/2017 R32 KAA Gent - Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Ghent Perbet 59 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - RSC Kane 29, Dembélé 05/11/2015 GS 2-1 London Anderlecht 87; Ezekiel 72 RSC Anderlecht - Tottenham Gillet 13, Okaka 75; 22/10/2015 GS 2-1 Brussels Hotspur Eriksen 4 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers RSC Anderlecht - Tottenham Goor 68; Berbatov 71 06/12/2007 GS 1-1 Brussels Hotspur (P) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - Club Berbatov 17, 72, 02/11/2006 GS 3-1 London Brugge Keane 62; Ibrahim 13 2 Royal Antwerp FC - Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 29 October 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Bosuil, Deurne UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - Club 3-0 Hazard 5, Allen 27, 07/11/1984 R2 London Brugge agg: 4-2 Roberts 36 Club Brugge - Tottenham Ceulemans 6, Jensen 24/10/1984 R2 2-1 Bruges Hotspur 82 (P); Allen 85 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur - RSC Roberts 83; 23/05/1984 F agg: 2-2 (aet, 4- London Anderlecht Czerniatynski 60 3 pens) RSC Anderlecht - Tottenham 09/05/1984 F 1-1 Brussels Olsen 85; Miller 58 Hotspur Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Royal Antwerp FC 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 7 11 Tottenham Hotspur 4 3 1 0 4 0 1 3 2 0 2 0 10 3 4 3 15 12 3 Royal Antwerp FC - Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 29 October 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Bosuil, Deurne Match background Two teams who got off to winning starts in UEFA Europa League Group J go head to head on Matchday 2 as Royal Antwerp and Tottenham Hotspur meet for the first time in European competition with the visitors seeking a maiden victory in Belgium. • Antwerp, currently leading their domestic league, came from behind to win 2-1 at Ludogorets on their UEFA Europa League group stage debut, experienced European campaigner Lior Refaelov scoring the winning goal in Razgrad, while Tottenham cruised to a 3-0 home win against Austrian visitors LASK with Lucas Moura and Heung-Min Son both on the scoresheet. Previous meetings • Although Antwerp won both legs against Aston Villa in the first round of the 1975/76 UEFA Cup, their second and most recent pairing with English opposition, against Newcastle United at the same stage of the same competition 19 years later, brought two heavy defeats – 0-5 at home and 2-5 away. Those results were the club's most recent in UEFA competition until they returned to Europe last season after 25 years away. • Tottenham have met Belgian clubs ten times previously and have yet to post an away win, their record in the country standing at D2 L3. Their most recent visit was their last game on the road in the UEFA Europa League proper, a 1-0 defeat by Gent in the 2016/17 round of 32 that followed a 2-2 first-leg draw at Wembley. Form guide Antwerp • Antwerp beat champions Club Brugge 1-0 in the 2019/20 Belgian Cup final – the club's first victory in the competition for 28 years – to secure a place in the UEFA Europa League group stage for the first time. • Last season the club returned to European competition for the first time in a quarter of a century but were unable to negotiate their way through UEFA Europa League qualifying, going out in the play-offs to AZ Alkmaar after extra time (1-1 a, 1-4 h) following an away goals extra-time win in the third qualifying round against Viktoria Plzeň. • European Cup Winners' Cup runners-up to Parma in the 1992/93 final at Wembley, the Great Old have lost three of their five European home games since (W2). 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-season 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 RB Leipzig (0-1 h, 0-3 a). • Spurs' 2020/21 European campaign began at an earlier stage than in any previous season, but José Mourinho's side came through qualifying ties away to Lokomotiv Plovdiv (2-1) and Shkëndija (3-1) before beating Maccabi Haifa 7-2 at home in the play-offs to take the club into the UEFA Europa League group stage for the sixth time. Having failed to make further progress in 2011/12, the two-time UEFA Cup winners have qualified for the round of 32 in each of their last four group participations, most recently in 2015/16 when they reached the last 16. • Tottenham have never claimed a victory on the road in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase (D4 L5), but their away record in the competition's group stage remains an impressive W6 D6 L3 – despite winning just one of the last four (D1 L2), one of those defeats coming in Belgium against Anderlecht (1-2) in 2015/16. Links and trivia • Antwerp full-back Ritchie De Laet has played for ten English clubs, notably Leicester City, with whom he was a Premier League champion in 2015/16 – though he spent the second half of that campaign on loan at Middlesbrough, helping them win promotion to the top flight. • De Laet and Tottenham's Toby Alderweireld won their first cap for Belgium in the same match – a 1-1 draw against Chile on 29 May 2009 in the Kirin Cup in Japan. • Jérémy Gelin (Antwerp) and Tanguy Ndombélé (Tottenham) are team-mates for France's Under-21 side. • Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris's next appearance in UEFA club competition will be his 100th. • Antwerp are the eighth different Belgian club to appear in the competition proper. • Tottenham's sixth appearance in the UEFA Europa League group stage is a record for an English club. They have also played more matches in the competition proper (49) and scored more goals (81) than any other Premier League side. • Antwerp are one of six clubs making their UEFA Europa League group stage debut in 2020/21, the others being CSKA-Sofia (Group A), Granada and Omonoia (E), Leicester City (G) and Sivasspor (I). They are the eighth different Belgian club to appear in the competition proper. 4 Royal Antwerp FC - Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 29 October 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Bosuil, Deurne • Spurs are one of six former UEFA Cup winners in this season's UEFA Europa League group stage – along with Bayer Leverkusen (Group C), PSV Eindhoven (E), Napoli (F), CSKA Moskva and Feyenoord (both K). 5 Royal Antwerp FC - Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 29 October 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Bosuil, Deurne Team facts Royal Antwerp FC Formed: 1880 Nickname: The Great Old UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: (1993) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 4 (1957) Belgian Cup: 3 (2020) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2019/20: play-offs 2018/19: did not take part in UEFA competition 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition 2016/17: did not take part in UEFA competition 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 4-0 twice, most recently v Nea Salamis 05/07/97, UEFA Intertoto Cup group stage • Biggest away win 1-4: Zürich v Antwerp 14/09/83, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Antwerp v Newcastle 13/04/94, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: Real Madrid v Antwerp 28/11/57, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 4-0: Antwerp v Dundee United 17/10/89, second round first leg • Biggest away win 1-4: Zürich v Antwerp (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: Antwerp v Newcastle (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-2: Newcastle v Antwerp 27/09/94, UEFA Cup first round second leg Tottenham Hotspur FC Formed: 1882 Nickname: Spurs UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Champions League: (2019) • UEFA Cup (2): 1972, (1974), 1984 • UEFA