23' 0-1 C. Dempsey // 27' 1-1 M. Salah // 49' 2-1 A. Dragovic // 82' 2-2 C. Dempsey




Tottenham Hotspur head coach Andre Villas-Boas expects his side's Europa League quarter-final second leg against Swiss side Basel to be an open affair. The first leg ended 2-2 in London.

SOUNDBITE (English): Andre Villas-Boas, Tottenham Hotspur coach
"I think this is a game where… I think we will expect goals from either sides because Basel are an attacking side, and you know, we consider ourselves also. I think it will be an open ending game like we saw in the first leg. The result is of course unpredictable but of course goals will happen in this game."

SOUNDBITE (English): Andre Villas-Boas, coach
"I have told you previously regarding Adebayor that he is always excellent to strike at the back of the net, because they are driven by goals and I think these recent games has allowed Adebayor to come back to goals since the Inter Milan tied away, and we have seen how influential he can be."

SOUNDBITE (English): Andre Villas-Boas, coach
(On missing Gareth Bale)
"This is something which can give the advantage to Basel but it can never be an excuse for us because of the amount of talents we have in our team you know, we should strive forward the same."



Philipp Degen: 'We will need all of our power' against Tottenham


After eliminating Manchester United from the Champions League last season, Swiss champions Basel will look to end another English team's adventure in Europe on Thursday and reach their first ever semi-final in European football.

Basel hold the upper hand in their Europa League quarter-final against Tottenham after drawing the first leg 2-2 at White Hart Lane.

SOUNDBITE (German): Philipp Degen, player:
"The English football is really powerful, they also go one to one and they will come on very strong. We will need all of our power to hold against them."

SOUNDBITE (German): Philipp Degen, player:
"They will look for us from the first minute on and will try to score, so our trainer and ourselves will have to hold really strong against that so we will score."

SOUNDBITE (German): Murat Yakin, coach:
"In London we needed a quarter of an hour to get used to the atmosphere and to the other team, then we got used to it, we played very well, and so tomorrow the players will be at home, they are used to the pitch and the stadium, so they have enough force to keep Tottenham in their half."