There could never be a happy ending than successfully chasing a two goals’ lead even though it cost you your star player’s injury. Tottenham successfully chased Basel’s two goals lead and kept its hopes alive to reach into the Europa League semi-finals. The match began with Swiss champions known form of attacking play and that is why they could manage to score two initial goals. Stocker scored in the 30th minute while F Frei scored just five minutes later. It was a dominated show by Basel until Adebayor could lessen their lead by one goal and Sigurdsson did rest of the job by scoring one more goal in the post lunch session. There was one major loss for Yids as their star striker Gareth Bale sustained an ankle injury, his injury looked a serious one when he was being taken off the field on a stretcher, but post scanning, it was found he can recover earlier than expected. Notably, Wales international Bale has been the most successful player for Tottenham by finding the net for a good 22 times in his 38 played games this season; hence his injury could be a setback for his club’s Europa League march along with domestic campaigns if he could not recover early.
Jermain Defoe was already not available for his club citing his muscular problems while two more players got minor injuries in the last game at the White Hart Lane. Aaron Lennon sustained an injury in the first half while William Gallas went out of the field during second half of the game. Anyways, all well if ends well and rightly so, Spurs can celebrate their draw in game which was almost out of their control. Tottenham manager Villas-Boas talked about Bale’s injury after the match, he said, “There is a big, big possibility if we stay positive that he will be fit for the Man City game and it will only take him out of two games. There’s lots of swelling. The pain is obviously very big. He will have a scan tomorrow. He rolled on his ankle, at the moment there is a lot of pain, but hopefully not as bad as it could have been. We still have a big squad and the ability to adapt. We just have to play against Everton and see when these players get back to make us even stronger.”
Similarly, he also told about Gallas’ second half injury and said, he had a small tear on his calf but final report will only come after an absolute assessment.