Tottenham will return to Europa League action this evening when they face Hoffenheim in Germany, in what will be their penultimate game of the group stage.

It's been six weeks since Spurs' last Europa League clash, where Ange Postecoglou's side drew 1-1 against Rangers. They are also without a win since October when they defeated AZ Alkmaar 1-0 at home.

Spurs are currently ninth in the Europa League League Phase, so a win against 26th-place Hoffenheim would hand them a big boost towards automatic qualification to the knockout stages. Despite dealing with an extensive injury list going into the game, Yang Min-Hyeok, Djed Spence, Sergio Reguilon and Antonin Kinsky will be ineligible to play as they have not been registered for the group stage.

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Speaking ahead of the clash, Postecoglou has spoken about his plan to deal with all the injuries in the squad. He said: "Squad numbers are going to stay the same, it’s not like they’re increasing. If you’re going to play this much football, you should be increasing squad numbers, is my belief.

"It doesn’t matter what strategies you put in place. If you want to compete at this level and happen to do well in all competitions there’s no other way to counteract it. You have to rotate your team, you have to have virtually two separate line-ups. We haven’t been able to do that. Some of that was because of the injury toll earlier in the season and that’s accumulated and that’s created this scenario now where we’re having to play the same players consecutively.

"I don’t think it’s a matter of the club’s strategy or recruiting, I think it’s just the sheer numbers, a scenario where we’ve got limited numbers for all competitions. It doesn’t take much if you get two or three injuries, particularly if you get them in similar areas. That adds a load to the existing group, and you’ve got to factor international football into that. It’s not like they get a break between seasons. The calendar’s really ramped up. In the last five years the game has changed a lot from the previous 50 games. There’s going to be some issues if the game keeps changing this quickly."

With that said, football.london has taken a look at all the options available to Postecoglou for the European clash.

Goalkeepers: Brandon Austin, Alfie Whiteman.

Defenders: Radu Dragusin, Archie Gray, Pedro Porro.

Midfielders: James Maddison, Lucas Bergvall, Dejan Kulusevski.

Forwards: Heung-Min Son, Richarlison.

Doubt: Fraser Forster.

Ruled out: Pape Matar Sarr, Yves Bissouma, Brennan Johnson, Timo Werner, Wilson Odobert, Guglielmo Vicario, Dominic Solanke, Destiny Udogie, Micky van de Ven, Antonin Kinsky, Djed Spence, Sergio Reguilon, Yang Min-Hyeok, Cristian Romero.