Tottenham v Villarreal: Line-ups, stats, streams, prediction

Tottenham in Villarreal Match Preview

Thomas Frank allowed himself and his gamers 24 hours to have a good time their 3-0 win over West Ham on Saturday forward of a debut in a Champions League technical space that the Tottenham supervisor expects to be “very thrilling”.

“We go once more,” Frank informed Spurs Play after his aspect moved third within the Premier League with victory on the London Stadium.

“You by no means take wins without any consideration – though we wish to win quite a bit [of games] – as a result of it hurts a lot while you lose.”

Frank described Xavi Simons’s debut as “promising” following the Netherlands midfielder’s £52 million arrival from Leipzig.

Simons reportedly determined to go away the German membership due to their failure to succeed in the Champions League, by which the 22-year-old contributed two objectives and two assists in eight appearances in 2023/24.

Europa League holders Spurs return to the competitors for the primary time since their run to the final 16 in 2022/23, whereas Villarreal final featured the earlier season, shedding each legs of their semi-final towards Liverpool.

The Yellow Submarine are fifth in Spain and in search of their first win in three matches following their 2-0 defeat at Atletico Madrid on Saturday, when a few of supervisor Marcelino’s tactical choices after Atleti’s second purpose have been influenced by their journey to London.

“The sport towards Tottenham got here again to thoughts,” mentioned Marcelino. “We needed to take into consideration that some gamers have been coming off accidents and others [had been] enjoying for his or her nationwide groups.”

The Spaniard has added 5 recruits over the last month, paying Lyon round £31m for ahead Georges Mikautadze and Chelsea £26m for defender Renato Veiga.

Ahead Tani Oluwaseyi is a £6.9m signing from Minnesota United, whereas back-up goalkeeper Arnau Tenas joined for £2.2m from Paris Saint-Germain and winger Manor Solomon is on mortgage from Spurs for the season.

“We’ll attempt to get them to adapt as shortly as doable,” Marcelino mentioned. “We all know enjoying a sport each three days makes it tough but it surely’s no excuse.

“They need to adapt shortly to their teammates, the competitors and the targets. The teaching employees will attempt to make this occur as shortly as doable.”

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— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) September 15, 2025

Tottenham in Villarreal Crew Information

Defender Radu Dragusin and midfielders James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski are out for Tottenham with knee accidents.

Centre-back Kota Takai will miss out with a foot damage and striker Dominic Solanke is a doubt with an analogous concern.

Midfielder Yves Bissouma will reportedly not return from damage till subsequent month however on-loan Paris Saint-Germain ahead Randal Kolo Muani might make his debut after being an unused substitute towards the Hammers.

Ahead Richarlison was a substitute and Rodrigo Bentancur was not known as from the bench after travelling to South America in the course of the worldwide break.

Villarreal centre-back Willy Kambwala and striker Gerard Moreno have hamstring accidents however Solomon is eligible to play towards his guardian membership.

Ahead Ayoze Perez, who scored 22 occasions in 32 appearances in all competitions final season, returned towards Atleti, with Georgia worldwide Mikautadze making his debut.

Nicolas Pepe has scored twice and Tajon Buchanan has three objectives thus far this season for a aspect who’ve solely been outscored by Barcelona of their home high flight.

Defender Juan Foyth spent 4 years at Tottenham earlier than becoming a member of Villarreal completely in 2021.