{"id":380984,"date":"2026-01-20T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380984\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:11:08","slug":"confirmed-line-ups-for-borussia-dortmund-vs-spurs-on-20-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380984\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed line-ups for Borussia Dortmund vs Spurs on 20 January, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can now confirm the starting XIs and substitutes for tonight&#8217;s UEFA Champions League clash against Borussia Dortmund (8pm UK).<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Solanke comes in for his first start of the campaign and maiden appearance in Europe this term as one of five changes from Saturday&#8217;s Premier League outing.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the returning Destiny Udogie starts for the first time since our trip to Newcastle United on 2 December with Kevin Danso and Djed Spence joining him in the backline.<\/p>\n<p>The final change sees Lucas Bergvall get the nod in midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Our bench features nine current or past players from our Academy, with Tynan Thompson, Malachi Hardy, Jun&#8217;ai Byfield, Yusuf Akhamrich and James Rowswell in line for a debut should they come on this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Starting XI: Vicario, Danso, Xavi, Udogie, Gray, Bergvall, Romero (c), Solanke, Pedro Porro, Spence, Odobert.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Kinsky, Austin, Kolo Muani, Scarlett, Olusesi, Thompson, Hardy, Byfield, Williams-Barnett, Akhamrich, Rowswell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We can now confirm the starting XIs and substitutes for tonight&#8217;s UEFA Champions League clash against Borussia Dortmund&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-380984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}