Spurs one up at halftime, Hossam Ghaly goal.

Going well, bossing midfield and pretty much just doing what we have to away from home.

Need a second goal now.

2-0 to Spurs!

BERBATOV IS CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COYS!!!

Haha get in there Spurs, all over Besiktas! All the Turks can now do one!

Class effort from the lads, dominated midfield and pushed forward with numbers. Took them apart quite methodically really.

Chuck Lennon and Malbranque and Zokora into that team and great things will happen.

8am, its bedtime for me, sick of hearing chinese commentary on Sopcast.

Tottenham have opened the group stage of the Uefa Cup with a win following an impressive 2-0 success over Besiktas in Turkey.

The North Londoners went in at the break ahead thanks to Hossam Ghaly's first goal for the club with Dimitar Berbatov's sublime second after the interval settling the contest.

The contest resembled more of a boxing match early on with both sides sparring with each without threatening to deliver that knock-out punch.

Spurs keeper Paul Robinson was a mere spectator in the opening 10 minutes, although Vedran Runje' was equally untroubled.

Suddenly the visitors burst into life and Dimitar Berbatov slid home after Runje parried Danny Murphy's shot, but the Bulgarian was rightly deemed offside.

Benoit Assou-Ekotto tried his luck from distance on 25 minutes after Besiktas could only half clear a corner, although his side was high and wide of goal.

Shortly after defender Mehmet Sedef had a wayward effort from distance the visitors were ahead through Ghaly after 31 minutes.

Berbatov's through-ball sent Ghaly through the middle and despite his initial shot being saved it rebound into the Egyptian and bounced into the empty net.

The home side rallied and almost levelled matters after 37 minutes. Burak Yilmaz's free-kick stung Robinson's hands and the former Leeds man was on hand to clear the rebound under pressure from Ibrahim Toraman.

Spurs were close to doubling their lead before the break but Murphy's left-footed shot flew just wide of the far post after good work and a neat through-ball from Berbatov.

The visitors started the second half brightly and Berbatov gave a glimpse of what was to come after striking a right-footed volley that Runje saved at his near post.

However, Runje and co were helpless to prevent Berbatov bagging Spurs' second just after the hour mark with a fine piece of dribbling and technique.

Robbie Keane set Berbatov free and he charged towards goal and left Baki Marcimek for dead before getting the better of Runje and rolling home into the empty net.

Keane was inches to netting a third for the visitors but his volley rounded off the floor onto the crossbar after great work down the right by Berbatov.

Spurs should have added a third in injury time but Jermain Defoe guided his side wide at the near post, although it mattered little as Spurs eased home to secure the three points.



So, any Turks care to share their views on the game?

Spurs dominated, should have had a penalty, Keane should have had 3 but oh well. 3 points and a great start to the group

Berbatov showed great composure for his goal. Keane was a bit unlucky with his effort though.

haha England 2 - 0 Turkey

Weeeey!!!

the first goal had a bit of luck in it but Spurs thoroughly deserved the win and Besiktas were very poor really , i wonder whether we will have any Turkish fans on here giving their verdict on the game . They must agree their side did not play well i would have thought .

What can i say..

Our performance was rubbish.We did nothing at all.

There were 19 aged players in our midfield and two of them were playing in second division last year.Thats all we can do with these inexperienced guys

It was Tottenham's chance that our important players(Kleberson,Delgado) were injured before this match.



congratulations Spurs!

Also, it was good to see the Besiktas supporters appluading Berbatov when he went off, a sign of true sportsmanship, well done

Carsi carsi. Your team and fans are pathetic pal. lost 2-0 to Spurs.

we also apllauded the whole Spurs team after the game because of their good performance.


@mikeyboy77 - You're really funny.Ask the yesterday's atmosphere who was in the stadium or who really followed the news and events yesterday.Read the newpapers or comments in Spurs official site.

was good to see the applauding by the home fans i have got to say!!!


hopefully that will be the end of the idiot 'carsi' supporters than came on here.

Were you at the game Forza mate?

yes,i was there , near the Carsi

you think we are idiot cause we apllauded the Spurs ha ?

it's interesting.

no, not at all!!!! when did i say that? i thought it was a nice thing and a very sporting sign.

we always told you that we are so gentle supporters and we are not killer or smthn else

also well done Spurs but you were so lucky that our best 2 players (kleb,delgado) was injured

Mikey, I think youre a bit pathetic actually.

The Besiktas fans were amazing, even down two nil they were still singing and chanting away, they were all I could hear on my end of the live stream.

I only wish any stadium in England could have the atmosphere and intimidation factor of that place, even when the home team is winning!!



Good post mate, great to see sportsmanship like that. And good luck to your team in the rest of the competition. They look dangerous going forward and have some talented wide men but today I think Jol just got his tactics perfect and some classy moves unlocked your defence who i am sorry t say did not impress me.

Sounds like you watched the game Conner, bit of closet Spurs supporting never hurt anyone eh?

Besiktas fans were amazing and a fantastic ambasador for european football in my opinion.