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Tottenham\u2019s pre-match garb today \u2026 Photograph: Paul Currie\/Tottenham Hotspur FC\/Shutterstock\u2026 and how Liverpool rocked up for the 1996 FA Cup final. Photograph: Mirrorpix\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n A reminder of how these teams earned the right to compete for the 2025 Super Cup. Fans of Manchester United and Internazionale look away now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Thomas Frank talks to TNT Sports, and is first asked to wax lyrical over the new Tottenham captain Cristian Romero. \u201cHe is a leader \u2026 a very experienced player \u2026 we are going into a final, and he has been in a few finals, and been very successful \u2026 he knows what it is about \u2026 on and off the pitch he will lead the team \u2026 we are facing a very good team but we are confident in ourselves \u2026 it is one game and we see an opportunity \u2026 we want to be brave, aggressive and go forward \u2026 there needs to be a foundation \u2026 solidness \u2026 togetherness \u2026 very difficult to beat \u2026 that\u2019s the minimum criteria and then we go from that \u2026 I just showed a picture to the players, that they are winners \u2026 they proved it three months ago \u2026 they won a very important trophy \u2026 of course they can do it today \u2026 go out and enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n There are three changes to the PSG side that started the Champions League final. Gianluigi Donnarumma is halfway through the out door, and is replaced in goal by Lucas Chevalier, the new signing from Lille. Meanwhile Warren Za\u00efre-Emery and Bradley Barcola come in for Jo\u00e3o Neves and Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz, with only the latter on the bench tonight.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Thomas Frank takes charge of Tottenham for the first time in a proper fixture tonight, and gives two players their competitive debut. Jo\u00e3o Palhinha, on loan from Bayern Munich, starts in midfield, while Mohammed Kudus, the \u00a355m signing from West Ham, plays up front. Europa League final match-winner Brennan Johnson starts on the bench.<\/p>\n Mohammed Kudus starts up top for Spurs tonight. Photograph: Jennifer Lorenzini\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.08 EDT<\/p>\n The teams<\/p>\n Paris Saint-Germain: Chevalier, Marquinhos, Hakimi, Nuno Mendes, Pacho, Vitinha, Dou\u00e9, Za\u00efre-Emery, Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, Kvaratskhelia, Barcola. Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario, Romero, Danso, Porro, van de Ven, Bentancur, Jo\u00e3o Palhinha, Sarr, Richarlison, Spence, Kudus. Referee: Jo\u00e3o Pinheiro (Portugal) Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.16 EDT<\/p>\n Preamble<\/p>\n The sashaying, swaggering, record-breaking champions of Europe take on the winners of last year\u2019s distinctly underwhelming Europa League final. That being the case, Paris-Saint Germain, the first side to win a European Cup \/ Champions League final by five clear goals, are hot favourites in Udine tonight to swat aside a seriously-below-par Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> who just about got the better of a Manchester United selection plumbing depths adjacent to rock-bottom.<\/p>\n But! However! And yet! PSG might have seen off Manchester City, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsenal en route to Champions League glory last season, but they didn\u2019t have it all their own way against the English, and had their shorts freshly laundered, neatly pressed and handed back to them in the Club World Cup final by Chelsea. That will give them pause. Meanwhile nobody ever made good money predicting which Spurs would turn up on any given day, and while they\u2019re coming off the back of a 4-0 humbling by Bayern Munich, they\u2019ve also recently beaten their arch-rivals Arsenal. So pooh-pooh the scattergun irrelevance of pre-season if you must, but this is technically pre-season too, so good luck calling it.<\/p>\n PSG are looking to add a first Super Cup to their fast-expanding resum\u00e9. They\u2019ve only contested it once before, in 1996, and will hope to do significantly better this time round, having lost that two-legged tie 9-2 on aggregate to Juventus. Spurs meanwhile are in their very first Super Cup; their previous European wins during the competition\u2019s existence, the Uefa Cups of 1972 and 1984, came during a period where the holders of the Cup Winners\u2019 Cup got to play instead. So we\u2019re breaking new ground tonight one way or the other.<\/p>\n Crystal Palace have just proved that trophies are like proverbial London buses: you wait long enough for one, then another arrives swiftly after. Can Spurs, who slaked their 41-year European thirst just three months ago, do the same? Kick-off at the home of Udinese Calcio is at 8pm UK time, 9pm in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It\u2019s on!<\/p>\n
Subs: Safonov, Marin, Hernandez, Lucas Beraldo, Kamara, Fabian, Lee, Goncalo Ramos, Mbaye.<\/p>\n
Subs: Austin, Kinsk\u00fd, Davies, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107, Byfield, Gray, Bergvall, Solanke, Johnson, Tel, Odobert.<\/p>\n
VAR: Tiago Martins (Portugal)<\/p>\n