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Tottenham Hotspur

  • Bentley 32’
  • Bent 73’

Wisla Krakow

  • Jirsak 34’
  1. Spurs finally break losing streak

    Spurs finally break losing streak

    Tottenham Hotspur gave their stuttering season a kick start with a 2-1 win at home to Wisla Krakow in the UEFA Cup first round first leg. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Tottenham Hotspur
    • Wisla Krakow
    • 90' Full time at White Hart Lane, and Spurs finally break their duck, albeit in a cup match. Can they take that winning form to Wigan on Saturday? Thanks for joining us, see you at the for more Premier League action!
    • 90' Now Jamie O'Hara is booked for dissent. Tense final moments at the Lane as three minutes of added time are signalled.
    • 88' Substitute Malecki goes into the book for a 'industrial' tackle on Bentley.
    • 87' Zienczuk is away here and Spurs are in trouble! He shrugs off King and pulls the trigger... Great covering tackle by Woodgate! Almost disaster fro SPurs!
    • 86' Bale dinks a little ball through for Campbell, who blasts into the side netting! He was offside anyway.
    • 81' There are Polish fans dotted all around the ground, and they are maikng themselves heard right now! Wisla seem coontent to close up and protect their away goal, but they are still capable of hitting Spurs on the break if they overcommit in attack.
    • 76' From that clearance Jenas releases Bent, and there are FIVE Spurs players streaming forward! Bent elects to pass to Bale, who controls and SHOOTS... Parried by Pawelek but CAMPBELL IS THERE... The loose ball just runs behind him!
    • 76' Junior Diaz is in a heap on the floor on the left wing. This looks dangerous for Tottenham. Zienczuk's ball in is headed clear.
    • 73' GOAL!! Brilliant from Campbell! The on-loan forward's first touch is excellent as he shakes off two defenders and chips in an inch-perfect cross that was just begging to be headed in at the far post, and Darren Bent duly obliged!
    • 70' Before the corner, Benoit Assou-Ekotto comes on for Giovani. Bentley's corenr once again doesn't beat the first man. There have as many awful balls from him tonight as there have been great ones.
    • 70' Spurs break forward and Bent's first touch takes him wide, but he shoots from distance and gets the defelection for a corner.
    • 68' Bentley has time and space to send in another good cross for GIOVANI... It was over the Mexican's head. He hits the deck in dramatic fashion but no chance of a penalty.
    • 66' Sobolewski is not challenged as he brings the ball forward, and rightfully fancies a go... Dragged wide of the target.
    • 61' Now the young forward chips a good ball over a BENT... Beaten in the air by Baszczynski.
    • 60' Campbell gets stuck into a Wisla player, endearing himself immediately to the Spurs fans!
    • 57' Ramos makes his double change here, as Gunter and Lennon come off for Jamie O'Hara and Fraizer Campbell.
    • 56' Wait, it won't count! The flag is up for offside! Replays show the goal should have stood.
    • 56' GOAL!! Great one-touch play againa nd Jenas squares a cracking ball across for Bent to tap in! spurs regain the lead!
    • 51' Jenas finds Giovani with a through ball and he's onside! It's on his right so he stabs it across the face of goal with his left but Bent can't get there in time! A near miss for Spurs.
    • 50' Junior Diaz can't head away a Spurs throw and flicks it into Bentley's path. The winger cuts inside and SHOOTS... TIPPED OVER THE BAR! Good save Pawelek.
    • 49' A more sedate start to this half. Gomes has to deal with a backpass but shanks it into the crowd. Woodgate then snuffs out a nascent Wisla attack well.
    • 47' We've only just kicked off but already Fraizer Campbell is out warming up on the touchline. It shouldn't be too long before before he makes his Spurs debut.
    • 46' No changes at half-time as Wisla Krakow get the second half underway!
    • 45+1' The first half is drawn to a close, and it's more frustration for Spurs.
    • 43' Sobolewski is the first man in the referee's book after kicking the ball away.
    • 41' Boguski is onto a neat throughball, turns and SHOOTS... Good save Gomes at the near post! A well-constructed chance there.
    • 39' Bentley fouled in midfield. This is a good spot for either him or Bale to shoot, very central and a good distance for teh curler. Bentley takes it... Not dipping enough and it lands on the top of the net.
    • 39' Bale gets in well at the left-hand byline but his cross finds nobody.
    • 37' Spurs have a free-kick about 40 yards from goal. Bentley fires the ball into the mixer but it's cleared by the first man.
    • 34' GOAL!!! Barely time to pause for breath and Wisla equalise! A great one-touch move rips Tottenham apart and a fabulous pass from Brozek has Jirsak one-on-one with Gomes and he makes no mistake! That sums up the team at the moment perfectly.
    • 32' GOAL!! Giovani sprays it out to Lennon, who cuts a ball back across for BENTLEY... He scores with a great left-foot strike! He was completely unmarked!
    • 31' Just as we say that, Bent is onto a loose ball after Diaz completely misses it! He's sprinting for the ball, but Pawelek slides out and gets clattered! No punishment for Bent, but the keeper receives some treatment. Tottenham return the ball to Wisla via their throw-in.
    • 29' Tottenham's lack of potency in attack is all too apparent at the moment. That is not really a criticism of Darren Bent. You would have to notice Bent to be able to criticise him.
    • 28' Bentley concedes a free-kick on the left wing with a reckless, high challenge that some officals would have booked him for. The set piece comes in to Brozek... His header is wayward, but he was completely unmarked!
    • 26' Yet another good piece of build-up, yet another good cross (this time from Giovani), yet another ariel chance missed as Pawelek punches clear.
    • 25' It's a long ball forward from Wisla and Brozek nods it back for BOGUSKI... The shot is blocked by King!
    • 23' Bentley floats a corner over to WOODGATE AT THE FAR POST... Saved by the keeper! There was not enough pace on the ball for Woody to power it past Pawelek.
    • 22' Spurs have got it going on in the build-up, with some great one-touch passing, but are struggling to break into the box.
    • 19' Gareth Bale goes on a marvellous run down the left, beating three men! His ball to Bent is cut out though. Spurs have a corner. Bentley will take. Punched away halfway down the field by Pawelek!
    • 17' Neat little ball down the channel for Jenas, who spins and fires a low cross fro Bent, but it's blocked.
    • 16' Lennon drives forward and spreads the play to Bentley. It's laid back for Gunter to cross... Too long.
    • 14' Cantoro is fouled in midfield by Zokora. Krakow look well equipped to frustrate a Tottenham side nervous about getting their first win.
    • 12' Bright start from both sides. Wisla have plenty of support, as you would expect, and they are repaying their fans by really getting stuck into Spurs.
    • 9' Woodgate and King both come up as Spurs win a corner. It's flicked on by the Spurs skipper but nobody latches on and it goes out for a goal kick.
    • 7' Wisla have already had one long-range effort go straight into the arms of Gomes, and now Sobolewski unleashes on the run from 25 yards... Wide of the near post.
    • 5' Nice football from Spurs as Giovani finds Lennon wide on the left. Lennon nutmegs a defender and sends a cross over to the far post, but there is a flag up for offside.
    • 1' Right away Lennon motors down the right and sends a cross in that is spilled by the keeper! Neither Bent nor Giovani can change direction in time to get on the end of it.
    • 1' The match is underway at a bouyant White Hart Lane!
    • 20:09 David Bentley and Jermaine Jenas, both rested for the defeat against Aston Villa on monday, start tonight. Ledley King also comes back into the Spurs defence.
    • 20:06 Spurs boss Juande Ramos will be desperate for a win, and facing the Polish visitors in his favourite competition seems like the ideal tonic.
    • 19:59 Welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!'s LIVE coverage of Tottenham Hotspur v Wisla Krakow in the UEFA Cup first round!

  • Team Stats

    Tottenham Hotspur Stats Wisla Krakow
    51% Possession 48%
    11 Shots 14
    6 Shots on target 4
    1 Saves 2
    6 Corners 1
    15 Fouls 12
    4 Offsides 4
    1 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    17 Tackles 19
    291 Accurate passes 274
    67 Bad passes 51

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Tottenham Hotspur
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Heurelho Gomes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 2 0
      39 Jonathan Woodgate 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 26 0 2
      16 Chris Gunter 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 20 1 1
      26 Ledley King 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 8 1
      17 Giovani dos Santos 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 15 8 1
      4 Didier Zokora 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 38 4 2
      8 Jermaine Jenas 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 52 10 1
      3 Gareth Bale 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 28 11 1
      5 David Bentley 1 4 3 3 5 1 0 16 4 1
      7 Aaron Lennon 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 14 7 1
      10 Darren Bent 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 16 3 1
      18 Fraizer Campbell 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 2 0
      32 Benoit Assou-Ekotto 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 4 2
      11 Gilberto da Silva Melo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Jamie O'Hara 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 13 3 3
      6 Tom Huddlestone 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      21 César Sánchez Dominguez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      20 Michael Dawson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Wisla Krakow
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      81 Marius Pawelek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 0
      4 Marcin Baszcyznski 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 25 1 2
      15 Junior Enrique Díaz Campbell 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 26 13 3
      2 Peter Singlar 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 30 1 4
      25 Cléber Cléber 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 3 0
      16 Tomás Jirsák 1 2 1 3 2 0 0 19 5 0
      7 Radislaw Sobolewski 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 30 3 3
      20 Mauro Cantoro 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 48 9 3
      17 Marek Zienczuk 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 22 13 0
      23 Pawel Brozek 0 3 1 0 1 1 1 15 1 0
      9 Rafal Boguski 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 15 0 3
      12 Marcin Juszczyk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      28 André Barreto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      6 Arkadiusz Glowacki 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      21 Wojciech Lobodzinski 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 6 0 1
      3 Marcelo Antonio Guedes Filho 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Patryk Malecki 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 0
      18 Andrezj Niedzielan 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0

  • Summary

    • 87' Zienczuk is away here and Spurs are in trouble! He shrugs off King and pulls the trigger... Great covering tackle by Woodgate! Almost disaster fro SPurs!
    • 76' From that clearance Jenas releases Bent, and there are FIVE Spurs players streaming forward! Bent elects to pass to Bale, who controls and SHOOTS... Parried by Pawelek but CAMPBELL IS THERE... The loose ball just runs behind him!
    • 73' GOAL!! Brilliant from Campbell! The on-loan forward's first touch is excellent as he shakes off two defenders and chips in an inch-perfect cross that was just begging to be headed in at the far post, and Darren Bent duly obliged!
    • 56' Wait, it won't count! The flag is up for offside! Replays show the goal should have stood.
    • 56' GOAL!! Great one-touch play againa nd Jenas squares a cracking ball across for Bent to tap in! spurs regain the lead!
    • 51' Jenas finds Giovani with a through ball and he's onside! It's on his right so he stabs it across the face of goal with his left but Bent can't get there in time! A near miss for Spurs.
    • 50' Junior Diaz can't head away a Spurs throw and flicks it into Bentley's path. The winger cuts inside and SHOOTS... TIPPED OVER THE BAR! Good save Pawelek.
    • 41' Boguski is onto a neat throughball, turns and SHOOTS... Good save Gomes at the near post! A well-constructed chance there.
    • 34' GOAL!!! Barely time to pause for breath and Wisla equalise! A great one-touch move rips Tottenham apart and a fabulous pass from Brozek has Jirsak one-on-one with Gomes and he makes no mistake! That sums up the team at the moment perfectly.
    • 32' GOAL!! Giovani sprays it out to Lennon, who cuts a ball back across for BENTLEY... He scores with a great left-foot strike! He was completely unmarked!
    • 23' Bentley floats a corner over to WOODGATE AT THE FAR POST... Saved by the keeper! There was not enough pace on the ball for Woody to power it past Pawelek.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Tottenham Hotspur

    Manager: Juande Ramos

    Starting line-up

    • H. Gomes
    • C. Gunter Substitution Out (56′)
    • J. Woodgate
    • L. King
    • G. Bale
    • A. Lennon Substitution Out (56′)
    • D. Zokora
    • J. Jenas
    • D. Bentley Goal
    • G. Dos Santos Substitution Out (70′)
    • D. Bent Goal

    Subs

    • C. Sanchez
    • D. Gilberto
    • B. Assou-Ekotto Substitution In70′
    • M. Dawson
    • T. Huddlestone
    • J. O'Hara Substitution In56′ Yellow Card
    • F. Campbell Substitution In56′

    Injured

    • A. Hutton
    • L. Modric

    Suspended

    None

  • Wisla Krakow

    Manager: Maciej Skorza

    Starting line-up

    • P. Pawelek
    • -. Singlar
    • M. Baszczynski
    • C. Cleber
    • J. Díaz
    • R. Boguski Substitution Out (73′)
    • C. Cantoro
    • R. Sobolewski Yellow Card
    • Z. Zienczuk
    • P. Brozek
    • T. Jirsak Goal

    Subs

    • A. Glowacki
    • A. Niedzielan
    • W. Lobodzinski
    • M. Juszczyk
    • P. Malecki Substitution In73′ Yellow Card
    • A. Barreto
    • M. Guedes Filho

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None