1899 Hoffenheim vs Tottenham

Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-Min has scored 10+ goals across all competitions in each of the last nine seasons, becoming the only Premier League player to have done so in each campaign since 2016/17.

James Maddison’s goal (2:57) was Tottenham Hotspur’s earliest goal in the UEFA Europa League since Erik Lamela netted after 01:49 vs Monaco in December 2015, whilst Spurs are the only team to score a goal inside the opening five minutes of multiple matches in the competition this season, doing so on two occasions.

Tottenham Hotspur have now faced 1000 shots across all competitions under Ange Postecoglou. Among Premier League clubs, only Newcastle United under Eddie Howe (1073), Brentford under Thomas Frank (1064) and Manchester United under Erik ten Hag (1024) have faced more shots under a single manager since Postecoglou’s first match in charge of Spurs.

TSG Hoffenheim have lost all four of their meetings with English sides in all competitions, losing twice to Liverpool in qualifying for the 2017-18 UEFA Champions League, and twice to Manchester City in the group stages of the Champions League the following season.

Tottenham have won just one of their last six meetings with German sides in all competitions (D1 L4), though it was in their last such match against Eintracht Frankfurt in October 2022 (3-2).

TSG Hoffenheim scored in each of their first 18 UEFA Europa League matches between 2017 and 2020 but they’ve since failed to score in five of their last 10, including each of their last two.

Spurs are winless in their last three UEFA Europa League games (D2 L1), last having a longer winless run in major European competition between February and October 2018 in the Champions League (five).

Archie Gray has started and played the full 90 minutes in all six of Tottenham’s UEFA Europa League games this season, the first English player to do so in a single campaign aged 18 or younger and second overall, after Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka (six across 2018-19/2019-20).