Spurs currently sit top of Group J which some are suggesting is trickier than it actually is. In the UEFA Europa League Tottenham Hotspur are considered big fish. We are expected to qualify from groups with comparative ease. Unlike Spanish clubs we do not take the competition seriously, neither do the Italians, hence the wealth of Spanish winners and sides in the final in recent years.

What we need to do is use the back-up squad players to qualify from the group and then take the competition seriously when we hit the knockout stages. If you look at our group it is fairly straight forward.

We should have and did beat Azerbaijani side Qarabag at White Hart Lane and secured a draw at Monaco where with better finishing we would have won comfortably. Monaco do not have the investment they did have and are having to sell players to stay within the Financial Fair Play rules. They are not a side to be feared as our game against them showed, we were easily the better side.

Tonight we play Anderlecht who have largely featured in the UEFA Champions League in recent years. That isn't as good as it sounds as they have a terrible record. They have won just one of their 22 European games since 2012/13.

The Belgian side have lost six of their last nine European home games with four of those defeats by more than one goal. Their home games in the Jupiter Pro League have not been goal-laden recently, their last five games have all had no more than two goals with three of those only having one goal

We do not often win away in the Europa League, we have won only one of five away games. Of those six games, four had two goals or less and we have failed to score in three of them. We are also drawing in the Premier League with four away games having had two goals or less, two of them with only one goal. 

Harry Kane is being rested we hear which presumably means Clinton Njie is at last going to play up front giving us some pace. He is clearly 'raw' and needs to improve in front of goal so the Europa League group games are an ideal opportunity to give him a run in the role and give Kane plenty of rest. Everything points to a low scoring affair tonight.