Tottenham have named their squad for the knockout stages of the Europa League, with head coach Ange Postecoglou making a couple of big calls.
UEFA rules stipulate that you can make three changes to your squad between the league phase and the knockout stage, allowing for new signings to be registered. Spurs could only name a 23-man squad at the start of the competition, due to only having two 'club-trained players' on their books.
Rules state that "as a minimum, eight of those 25 places are reserved exclusively for 'locally trained players' and no club may have more than four 'association-trained players' listed among those eight places. If a club have fewer than eight locally trained players in their squad, then the maximum number of players on List A is reduced accordingly".
Alfie Whiteman and Brandon Austin are the only two 'club-trained' players at Spurs so that left Postecoglou with a decision to make over four players - Djed Spence (left out of the league phase squad), Mathys Tel, Antonin Kinsky and Kevin Danso for only three available spots - Radu Dragusin vacated one position given his season-ending injury.
Ange Postecoglou has made the big call to name Djed Spence in the squad, having missed out in the league phase. Mathys Tel and Kevin Danso have also been named as the three new players for the knockout phase.
Antonin Kinsky is the unlucky one to miss out, with Timo Werner also taken out of the squad alongside the injured Radu Dragusin. Fraser Forster has also dropped out of the squad, with Austin to play back-up to Guglielmo Vicario when the Italian returns from injury.