Spurs will look to maintain their 100 per cent start to the new-look Europa League tonight. Ange Postecoglou’s side have won both of their opening games in this season’s competition, brushing aside Qarabag on home soil despite going down to 10 men early before travelling to Hungary to defeat Ferencvaros. Tottenham will be strong favourites to record another comfortable victory this evening, having bounced back from their Brighton capitulation by drubbing rivals West Ham in the Premier League.
Now they meet an AZ Alkmaar team who started the season magnificently under Maarten Martens, but have been on a wretched run of form recently, losing four matches in a row across all competitions to drop to fifth in the Eredivisie and 11 points adrift of leaders PSV Eindhoven. They were also beaten by Athletic Club in their last Europa League outing after opening with a win over Elfsborg and have not fared well at all on previous trips to England.