Tottenham welcome Real Madrid to White Hart Lane hoping to achieve the near impossible: overturn a 4-0 deficit from the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.

Here come the teams, with Spurs in their traditional all white. Madrid are in their away strip of all blue tonight.

FACT: Tottenham have scored four or more goals in a European home game on 19 previous occasions, but never vs a team from Spain. (Opta)

If Spurs are to emulate their team of 1961-62, who reached the semi-finals of the European Cup, they must do what only three clubs have previously managed in European competition - overturn a three-goal deficit. Real themselves have managed it, along with Leixões SC and FC Partizan.

Despite being 4-0 down, hope abounds at White Hart Lane prior to kick-off. Not least from Garth Crooks, who spoke to Eurosport about Spurs' chances of making a spectacular comeback tonight.

It's been a big day for Spurs off the pitch, with the club starting legal proceedings to challenge the decision to hand the Olympic Stadium to West Ham after London 2012.

Emmanuel Adebayor keeps his place in attack for Real after his two-goal heroics with fit-again Karim Benzema settling for a place on the bench. At the back Alvaro Arbeloa slots in at left-back with Marcelo pushed forward into midfield.

William Gallas play in the centre of defence for Spurs while Aaron Lennon comes back into the side having missed the first leg through illness. Peter Crouch is suspended after that red card of his, so Roman Pavlyuchenko leads the line up front.

And tonight's referee is Nicola Rizzoli (Italy).

Teams - TOTTENHAM: Gomes, Corluka, Gallas, Dawson, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Huddlestone, Modric, Bale, Van der Vaart, Pavlyuchenko. Subs: Cudicini, Kaboul, Jenas, Defoe, Bassong, Kranjcar, Sandro /// REAL MADRID: Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Carvalho, Albiol, Arbeloa, Alonso, Khedira, Ronaldo, Ozil, Marcelo, Adebayor. Subs: Adan, Kaka, Benzema, Granero, Garay, Higuain, Di Maria

Luka Modric accepts that Spurs need a miracle to turn things around, but the little Croat insisted that defeat will not force a mass exodus of players from the Lane this summer.

It may seem like a foregone conclusion that Jose Mourinho's side will set up a semi-final Clasico with Barcelona, but the Portuguese still intends on sending out his team to attack.

Madrid blew Spurs out of the water at the Bernabeu a week ago, when Emmanuel Adebayor netted twice and Peter Crouch got his marching orders.