Nottingham Forest climbed back into the Champions League places with a hard-fought 2-1 win over struggling Tottenham Hotspur, withstanding a late barrage of pressure and an 86th-minute goal to move back up to third.

Tottenham will hope to take renewed confidence from their Europa League exploits when they host Nottingham Forest tonight. The mood at Spurs has been transformed in recent days after a potentially pivotal 1-0 win away against Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany that sealed their progress into the semi-finals of Europe’s secondary club competition,

Spurs were fresh from their Europa League heroics on Thursday, when they booked their place in the semi-finals after securing a hard-earned 2-1 aggregate victory over Eintracht Frankfurt