Tottenham vs Roma betting tips, BuildABet, best bets and preview

On November 29, 2024By Littum

Kick-off time: 20:00 GMT, Thursday

TV: TNT Sports 1

Tottenham were pretty good at the weekend weren’t they. After riding out an early Manchester City storm, they fully deserved their thumping win to breathe new life into their campaign.

It had stalled before the international break, with back-to-back defeats to Galatasaray and Ipswich, but they exploded into life on Saturday and will be looking to continue that trend here.

They face a Roma-led Claudio Ranieiri who is in a bit of a crisis. The former Leicester and Chelsea manager has retired to become the third Roma manager of the season already.

The capital club are struggling in Serie A, 12th and closer to relegation than the top six, and in the Europa League, where they are languishing in 20th place, with performances across all competitions extremely worrying.

What are the best bets?

Roma are simply a bad team.

It’s all fallen apart since Jose Mourinho was sacked and there’s really no sign of things turning around. They have lost six of their last 10 in all competitions and have won just twice.

Performances have also reflected results, with the capital club creating a wealth of chances every time they step onto the pitch.

Given that, and the fact that they face arguably the best team in the competition on the road, I think a decent bet TOTTENHAM TO WIN seems the obvious but correct way into this with the 3/4 price looking huge.

I’d expect to see closer to 1/2 for a home win here, especially with Roma winless away from home this season. They even lost to Elfsborg away in round two of this competition.

Spurs sit seventh in the Europa League table after losing to Galatasaray but have swept aside their two home opponents without conceding at prices of 1/10 and 2/5 when they host Qarabag and AZ Alkmaar respectively.

I would argue that Roma are not much better than AZ at the moment and we are probably getting a higher price on Spurs because of the name ‘Roma’.

Ange Postecoglou will rotate a bit, but it will still be a strong Spurs team at home. After all, Spurs have won 17 of their last 23 home games in all competitions.

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Ange Postecoglou made quite a few changes in Tottenham’s last Europa League game, with one of them, Will Lankshear, scoring a first ever senior goal before being sent off, meaning he is suspended here.

Fraser Forster comes in between the sticks with Guglielmo Vicario out injured, while Spurs are likely to field Radu Drăgușin and Ben Davies at centre-back with Christian Romero and Micky Van de Ven still on the sidelines.

Rodrigo Bentancur is ruled out domestically but could feature here, while Archie Gray is expected to start at right-back.

In his first game in charge, Claudio Ranieri switched from a back three to a back four against Napoli, although it still ended in defeat. The visitors will be without Mario Hermoso, Alexis Saelemaekers and Eldor Shomurodov, but talisman Paulo Dybala could start.

Predicted lineups

Tottenham: Forster; Gray, Drăgușin, Davies, Udogie; Bergvall, Bentancur, Kuluševski; Werner, Solanke, Johnson, .

Rome: Svilar; Çelik, Mancini, Ndicka, Angeliño; Koné, Cristante, Pellegrini; El Shaarawy, Dybala, Dovbyk.

Odds correct at 2120 GMT (26/11/24)

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