{"id":271789,"date":"2025-11-04T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271789\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:41:09","slug":"tottenham-confirmed-team-vs-copenhagen-kudus-absence-explained-as-frank-makes-five-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/271789\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham confirmed team vs Copenhagen &#8211; Kudus absence explained as Frank makes five changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the Tottenham team that Thomas Frank has chosen to face FC Copenhagen in the Champions League on Tuesday evening<\/p>\n<p>18:56, 04 Nov 2025Updated 19:21, 04 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_GettyImages-2239158922.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Frank will be hoping to have Mohammed Kudus back, fresh and fit for Tottenham Hotspur to face Aston Villa after his international exploits with Ghana during this break\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Thomas Frank is without Mohammed Kudus as Tottenham Hotspur take on Copenhagen in the Champions League<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"footballlondon\">Thomas Frank has made five changes to his Tottenham team to take on Copenhagen on Tuesday night in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"footballlondon\">Injuries have played a part in the Dane&#8217;s line-up as the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/tottenham-hotspur-fc\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spurs<\/a> head coach is already without the injured Dejan Kulusevski, Ben Davies, Kota Takai, Yves Bissouma, Archie Gray, James Maddison and Dominic Solanke and now <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/all-about\/lucas-bergvall\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lucas Bergvall<\/a> will miss the next two matches as he goes through the concussion protocol after coming off early in the defeat to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"footballlondon\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/all-about\/mohammed-kudus\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mohammed Kudus<\/a> and Djed Spence both missed Monday&#8217;s training session at Hotspur Way and while Spence makes the bench, Kudus misses out on the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"footballlondon\">&#8220;Unfortunately Kudus couldn&#8217;t make it. He&#8217;s got a knock. Djed is ready but it&#8217;s positive that Destiny[Udogie] can start,&#8221; said Frank ahead of kick-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"footballlondon\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/all-about\/thomas-frank\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Frank<\/a> has very few options in most departments of the team, particularly at full-back and in central midfield, but he has given Joao Palhinha a rest with Pape Matar Sarr playing alongside Rodrigo Bentancur and Xavi Simons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"footballlondon\">Up front, Randal Kolo Muani continues to keep Richarlison out of the team and the Frenchman plays between Brennan Johnson and Wilson Odobert in the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"footballlondon\">Here&#8217;s the Tottenham team Frank has selected to face the team from his homeland:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"footballlondon\">Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Sarr, Bentancur, Xavi; Johnson, Kolo Muani, Odobert. Subs: Kinsky, Austin, Danso, Palhinha, Spence, Scarlett, Richarlison, Kyerematen, Akhamrich, Rowswell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the Tottenham team that Thomas Frank has chosen to face FC Copenhagen in the Champions League on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[11996,403,99,17654,5862,28231],"class_list":{"0":"post-271789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-mohammed-kudus","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-spurs","12":"tag-thomas-frank","13":"tag-uefa-champions-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}