The Tottenham Spurs are playing Partizan Belgrade on the UEFA Europa League schedule on Thursday and the game is live from Partizan Stadium starting up at 1 pm ET as Tottenham visits for the first match between the two and the game is streaming online and comes after the playoff round in the tournament.

Roberto Soldado should be back and Tottenham will have Danny Rose out of the lineup and this comes two years on from being subjected to racial abuse while playing there, although the team said that was not the reason why he was left out. The Spurs are in Group C in the Europa tournament and Rose will remain in London and now he will be joined by Emmanuel Adebayor, Mousa Dembélé and Nacer Chadli as players out of the matchup.

Group C has Tottenham Hotspur, Partizan Belgrade, Besiktas and Asteras Tripolis and this kicks off the first round of games and they will continue through the league schedules. The Spurs had to play their way out of the first pool in the playoffs and they beat AEL Limassol 5-1 on aggregate to get into the group round. Tottenham comes in at sixth on the English Premier League table after a solid start to the season and they play on Sunday at White Hart Lane against West Brom.

The team comes into the matchup looking solid in the Premier League to start the season and it comes after the team finished just below the Champions League qualifying last year. The Spurs have made some improvements over the summer and now they have the chance to make some noise here in the UEFA tournament. This time around the Europa League has some major motivation for teams, as the winner of this tournament will get entry into the UCL next season and that is huge for these teams after missing out for qualifying.

Tottenham comes into the tournament after winning their first two matches of the EPL season and after that they lost and pulled a draw in the next two matchups. The team won over West Ham and against QPR and they fell to Liverpool before the draw with Sunderland and coming up they have come tough matches, including trips to Arsenal and Man City in the coming weeks. The team also plays against Newcastle as well as Aston Villa and West Brom and they have the chance to be a solid club in the EPL this year.

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