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Tottenham can still save their season by winning the Europa League but is this a trickier tie than the odds imply? Betfair writer Lewis Jones thinks goals are on the menu in the first leg...

Tottenham vs Bodo/GlimtThursday 1 May, 20:00Live on TNT Sports

Spurs hot favs to qualify but are odds correct?

It's now or never, mate.

If reports are to be believed, Ange Postecoglou's race is run at Tottenham at the end of the season. It's been another glorified failure under an incredibly engaging and intelligent manager but someone who has failed to make his style of football work consistently.

All that is left for him is the Europa League.

It would be very Spurs to break their major trophy duck but still deem it necessary to sack the manager that took them here. If the Betfair Exchange is to be believed, Spurs have one foot in Bilbao for the final. They can be backed at 1.28 to qualify with their Norwegian opponents trading at 4.2.

Those prices do seem a little mad to me.

Bodo/Glimt are experienced European campaigners that won't be overawed by these occasions. In the past few seasons, the likes of Porto, Jose Mourinho's Roma, Lazio and a certain Celtic side in 2022 managed by Postecoglou have all been knocked out by Kjetil Knutsen's team, who are full of spirit and carry a dangerous way of playing football.

This will not be as easy for Spurs as those qualification odds suggest.

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The price for the underdogs to qualify is really tempting as if they can stay within one goal for this first leg where they don't have key men like Patrick Berg, Hakon Evjen and Andreas Helmersen, I think they'll have a big advantage in the second leg on their artificial pitch. Any team that can play with unity and are drilled defensively stand great chances against such a limp and predictable team like Spurs, who have lost 10 of their last 15 Premier League games.

Yes, the big guns are back like Micky Van der Ven but this looks like a squad that checked out on the manager's beliefs a long time ago and I'm not sure they'll have the required motivation to get through this tie against a very spirited and dangerous team in forward areas.

For Thursday, the bet that really appeals is the both teams to score angle at 1.9 on the Betfair Exchange.

It's almost an automatic play in any Spurs game and is so appealing here at the odds chalked up, It's so generous based on Tottenham's horrendous defensive record at home.

They've kept just two clean sheets in their last 32 Premier League home games whilst only the bottom three in the Premier League have conceded more "big chances" - a metric defined by Opta - than Tottenham. You name a terrible team and you can guarantee they scored against Tottenham away from home. Southampton? Yes. Leicester? Yes. Ipswich? Yes.

The Norwegian champions have scored in 13 of 14 Europa League games this season. They can do so again.

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