Tottenham vs Villarreal LIVE: Score and latest updates from Champions League tonight – UK Times

An early sighter for Spurs as a free-kick from deep drops nicely to Simons on the edge of the box, but he fires over.

We’re underway at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium!

Both sides are out on the pitch, and we’re moments away from kick-off!

Elsewhere, we have the first two results from the 2025/26 competition!

Arsenal have beaten Athletic Bilbao 2-0 at the San Mames, while Belgian side Union SG have shocked PSV at the Philips Stadion.

Both sides getting ready in the tunnel as we approach kick-off. We’ll have the anthems soon at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Cristian Romero also answered questions ahead of the match, telling the media that Spurs “have a great manager”.

“We always want to improve. If you take Bournemouth out, we’ve done well. We do our best no matter who we are playing against. It is always about increasing our performance and looking to improve,” he said.

On his new contract, he added: “I like the way we work, the way we train. Always things can improve but I think everyone here at all levels are taking the right steps to improve. I am very happy here.”

Speaking ahead of the match today, Spurs boss Thomas Frank told the media that he believes he has “a fantastic squad” who “would like to go as far as possible”.

“I think the most important thing is that it’s one game at a time. Villarreal are a very good team, I’ve been very impressed when I’ve studied them, but we’ll do everything we can to get a good start. It’s going to be a good challenge,” he said.

When asked about what sort of points total he was targeting, the Dane said that he will take it “one game at a time”.

42 percent of Tottenham’s goals in the Champions League (since 1992/93) have been scored by Harry Kane or Son Heung-min (37/89).

Following the departures of both, the only current Tottenham player with more than one goal for the club in the competition is Richarlison (2).

Villarreal forward Georges Mikautadze has been directly involved in seven goals in eight starts in major European competition to date

Today marks the first of Tottenham’s eight league phase fixtures – you can see the other ones below:

Tuesday, 30 September 8pm

Wednesday, 22 October 8pm

Wednesday, 26 November 8pm

Wednesday, 28 January 8pm

Villarreal have played 14 matches against English opponents in the UEFA Champions League and are still looking for their first victory (D6 L8), while losing each of the last seven in a row.

Tottenham have only won their opening game of a European Cup/UEFA Champions League campaign in two of their seven attempts (D2 L3). However, those two have arrived on the last two occasions where they have played their opener at home.