Pacos de Ferreira beat Northern Irish aspect Larne within the final spherical of qualifying
Tottenham boss Nuno Espirito Santo stated the membership’s “feelgood issue disappeared” as they have been crushed by Pacos de Ferreira within the Europa Convention League play-off first leg.
He left your entire beginning XI from Sunday’s 1-0 win over Manchester Metropolis – and Harry Kane – at house.
They have been very poor in Portugal.
Lucas Silva ran in behind Cristian Romero too simply to latch on to Nuno Santos’ by way of ball and slot into the underside nook for the one objective.
“No person likes to lose a recreation,” stated Nuno. “No person likes to not play good. The feelgood issue disappeared. That is soccer, ups and downs. The gamers should bounce again.”
Spurs didn’t handle a single shot on the right track – however Nuno stated he didn’t underestimate the hosts and would decide the identical workforce once more.
“The choice was to attempt to give minutes to gamers, to get minutes on their legs and enhance the degrees of health,” he stated. “In fact issues take a while.
“I might determine the identical. We’d like all of the gamers [this season].”
Their European marketing campaign – within the new third-tier event – will probably be over in August except they win subsequent Thursday’s second leg at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Nuno began three summer season signings – defender Romero, winger Bryan Gil and goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini.
Youngsters Nile John and Dane Scarlett additionally made their first begins for the membership – and J’Neil Bennett and Maksim Paskotsi got here on for debuts – however there have been no actual standout performances.
Equivalent twins Michael and Matthew Craig, 18, have been among the many unused substitutes on an inexperienced bench.
Nuno wouldn’t say if he’ll play an identical workforce for the second leg, including he wished to deal with Sunday’s Premier League recreation with former membership Wolves first.
Line-ups
Paços de Ferreira
Formation 4-2-3-1
13Magalhães Ribeiro Ferreira
29Ferreira Fonseca32da Silva Ramos2Costa Baixinho5Pacheco Antunes
46Eustáquio22Martins Moreira
7Castro Ferreira77Valente Santos23da Silva de Jesus
10Pereira Junior
13Magalhães Ribeiro Ferreira29Ferreira Fonseca32da Silva Ramos2Costa Baixinho5Pacheco Antunes46Eustáquio22Martins MoreiraBooked at 66mins7Castro FerreiraBooked at 34minsSubstituted forSilva de Jesusat 72′minutes77Valente SantosSubstituted forBobó Djalóat 62′minutes23da Silva de JesusSubstituted forDelgadoat 72′minutesBooked at 74mins10Pereira JuniorSubstituted forSousa Silvaat 88′minutes
Substitutes
3Reis Lima8Ibrahim9Silva de Jesus12Menezes de Almeida15Delgado16Bobó Djaló20Alves Bastos21dos Santos Silva25Ferreira de Oliveira26Guerra Pires45Sousa Silva99Da Silva Souza
Tottenham
Formation 3-4-2-1
22Gollini
38Carter-Vickers4Romero33Davies
2Doherty18Lo Celso8Winks19R Sessegnon
43John11Gil
44Scarlett
22Gollini38Carter-VickersSubstituted forPaskotsiat 87′minutes4Romero33DaviesBooked at 31mins2Doherty18Lo Celso8Winks19R SessegnonSubstituted forBennettat 81′minutes43JohnSubstituted forClarkeat 45′minutes11GilBooked at 90mins44Scarlett
Substitutes
40Austin42White47Clarke48Paskotsi50Cesay51Craig52Craig53Lyons-Foster55Mundle56Bennett
