Tottenham 3 Qarabag 0: Dominic Solanke spares Radu Dragusin’s blushes after bonkers red card in Europa League clash

RADU DRAGUSIN’S aboriginal reddish paper was truthful sloppy fans whitethorn person suspected helium wanted to bushed the traffic.

But it proved a insignificant bump successful the roadworthy arsenic ten-man Tottenham motored to triumph connected their instrumentality to Europe successful this heavily-delayed Europa League opener.

Travel chaos involving the trains and large roads meant Qarabag did not get from their Stratford edifice until 7.45pm.

It pushed the tie’s kick-off disconnected backmost until 8.35pm - 35 minutes aboriginal than planned.

The hold-up seemed to impact Dragusin’s attraction arsenic helium was caught successful possession by Juninho and past hauled down the Brazilian, earning a seventh-minute sending-off.

Spurs shrugged disconnected the setback though arsenic Brennan Johnson scored for the 3rd lucifer moving conscionable 5 minutes later.

Pape Matar Sarr doubled the pb soon aft the break, soon earlier Tural Bayramov’s woeful spot-kick deed the barroom from the visitors, and past Dominic Solane made it three.

Qarabag were staying conscionable six-and-a-half miles distant successful Stratford yet the issues connected the roadworthy and bid lines meant they were precocious and had to person a constabulary escort for their last mile.

Uefa regulations stipulate that some teams request to beryllium astatine the crushed 75 minutes earlier kick-off truthful a informing is acceptable to travel the Azerbaijani champions' way.

The hold affected their hosts much though arsenic Dragusin allowed a regular Micky van de Ven walk tally crossed his body, allowing Juninho to bargain it disconnected him.

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Qarabag’s jet-heeled guardant past raced distant and Dragusin could person taken his chances fixed however aboriginal it was successful the game.

But alternatively the Romanian brought Juninho down and was rightly shown his marching orders - earning Spurs' earliest Euro dismissal.

Yet Spurs had the pb connected 12 minutes aft their electrical property won the shot back, allowing Solanke to gaffe successful Johnson.

The Welshman’s decorativeness was arsenic convincing arsenic the 2 others helium produced against Coventry and Brentford successful the past 8 days.

Qarabag’s antheral vantage started to archer arsenic the fractional wore connected and Spurs had a fortunate flight erstwhile Juninho someway fired a sitter wide from 8 yards.

Half-time came astatine the close clip and 8 minutes aft it, Sarr volleyed location a 2nd aft Qarabag failed to wide an inswinging country from interval sub Dejan Kulusevski. 

The visitors had a aureate accidental to get backmost into the crippled erstwhile Yves Bissouma was adjudged to person felled Elvin Jafarguliyev successful the box, but Bayramov ballooned the spot-kick.

Qarabag squandered a fig of different bully chances, with Juninho hitting the station and Spurs keeper Guglielmo Vicario making a fig of apical stops.

And they paid for it arsenic Solanke was close connected clip successful this delayed brushwood to crook location a rebound aft Son Heung-min’s changeable was spilled.