October 04, 2008	Saturday	Shawwal 04, 1429

KRAKOW (Poland), Oct 3: Struggling Tottenham drew 1-1 with Wisla Krakow here on Thursday to move into the UEFA Cup group stages but had to suffer an anxious final spell in the 3-2 aggregate win.

Pawel Brozek’s lobbed equaliser with seven minutes to go, following Arkadiusz Glowacki’s 58th-minute own goal for Tottenham, pushed Spurs into crisis defensive mode but they hung on grimly to go through, courtesy of their 2-1 win at White Hart Lane two weeks ago.

Spurs are bottom of the Premier League in their worst top-flight start since 1955 though they play promoted Hull at the weekend before the UEFA Cup draw is made on Tuesday next week.

But the win at least eased the pressure on under-fire coach Juande Ramos.

“The important thing is qualification,” said the Spaniard.

“In the last moments Wisla put four or five players in our penalty area. We needed to defend well, but I think we had control of the match.

“Two or three victories and I’m sure the mentality of players will change.

It is difficult at the moment. We need to play each match like the last. Sunday is a new competition, we play Hull and we need to win.” Tottenham skipper Ledley King added: “Now we are through in the UEFA Cup so hopefully things can pick up.”

Results:

Standard Liege 2 Everton 1

Rosenborg 3 Brondby 2

Wisla Krakow 1 ..Tottenham 1

Rapid Bucharest 1 Wolfsburg 1

Spartak Moscow 1 Banik Ostrava 1

Stuttgart 2 Cherno More Varna 2

FBK Kaunas 1 Sampdoria 2

Honka Espoo 0 Racing Santander 1

Schalke 04 1 Apoel Nicosia 1

Levski Sofia 0 MSK Zilina 1

Kalmar 1 Feyenoord 2

Unirea Urziceni 0 Hamburg 2

FC Metalist Kharkiv 4 Besiktas 1

St-Etienne 2 Hapoel Tel Aviv 1

Galatasaray 2 Bellinzona 1

Dynamo Bucharest 0 NEC Nijmegen 0

Partizan Belgrade 1 Timisoara 0

Lech Poznan 4 Austria Vienna 2

Vaslui 1 Slavia Prague 1

FC Twente 1 Rennes 0

Heerenveen 5 Vitoria Setubal 2

Artmedia 0 Sporting Braga 2

Sparta Prague 3 Dynamo Zagreb 3

Zurich 0 AC Milan 1

Ajax 2 FK Borac 0

Salzburg 0 Sevilla 2

FC Bruges 2 Young Boys 0

Copenhagen 1 FC Moscow 1

Manchester City 2 Omonia Nicosia 1

Motherwell 0 Nancy 2

Olympiakos 5 FC Nordsjaelland 0

Aston Villa 1 Litex Lovech 1

Paris Saint Germain 0 Kayserispor 0

Benfica 2 Napoli 0

Udinese 0 Borussia Dortmund 2

Deportivo La Coruna 2 Brann 0

Valencia 2 Maritimo Funchal 1

Guimares 2 Portsmouth 2.—AFP