Tottenham Hotspur V Monaco: Confirmed Lineups, Wanyama On The Bench

Monaco ruined Tottenham's record-breaking night-out at Wembley as the French side earned a 2-1 win in their Champions League Group E opener on Wednesday.

Spurs will play all their Champions League home games at Wembley this season while work on their new stadium continues and the 85,011 crowd was the largest home attendance in English club history, beating the 84,467 that witnessed Manchester City play Stoke in the FA Cup in 1934.

Moutinho believes his side can benefit from playing in front of more than 80,000 Spurs fans at Wembley instead of White Hart Lane, having lost 4-1 in north London in the Europa League last season.

They fell behind after Bernardo Silva scored against the run of play in the 15th minute and substitute Thomas Lemur doubled the lead in the 31st.

Despite a stop-start beginning to the game due to a couple of Monaco players getting injured, Spurs nearly scored in the eighth minute when a lovely cross from Harry Kane found it's way to Son Heung-min in the box, who hit a first-time shot towards goal but it was blocked on the line by Monaco defender Andrea Raggi. While this is their first foray into the Champions League in over five years, they compete in Europe frequently, so they know how to balance the two competitions. "Playing in the Champions League there is very unique, so those two things are going to be fantastic". "We deserved more but you can not concede like we did".

"Monaco are a good team but we weren't ruthless enough". Given how good Harry Kane has looked for Tottenham, it's his turn to make his mark on the Champions League.

However, this is a very different Monaco to that side, and find themselves on top of the Ligue 1 table even at this early stage. Erik Lamela gave the ball away carelessly, Silva picked it up, went easily past Ben Davies, cut inside and curled a lovely shot past Hugo Lloris.

Tottenham failed to recover from two first-half Monaco goals as they slipped to a 2-1 defeat in the Champions League.

"Scoring creates momentum and we dominated the game in the second half", said the Belgian defender.

A tiny traveling pod of Monaco fans numbering no more than 350 celebrated at the other end but it was the vast home majority who found their voices again just before halftime when Lamela's corner was headed powerfully home by Alderweireld.

Pochettino sent on Mousa Dembele for Son at half-time and the Premier League side nearly had an instant equaliser as Dele Alli's dipping half-volley from 25 yards drew an agile tip-over from Subasic.