Tottenham was defeated in Portugal, against Pacos Ferreira (1-0), in the first leg of the last previous round of the Football Conference League, in the debut of the Spanish Bryan Gil with the London club. The international with Spain, silver in Tokyo 2020, transferred to the ‘spurs’ by Sevilla, played his first game with the team led by Nuno Espirito Santo. Holder, he played the full match and saw the yellow card.
Brazilian Lucas Silva’s goal unbalanced the match on the brink of halftime and gave the victory to the local team. Tottenham will have to overcome the disadvantage next Thursday in the second leg to be played in London.
In addition, Roma, coached by the Portuguese Jose Mourinho, set foot in the group stage by beating Turkish Trabzonspor at the Medical Park Stadium (1-2). Nevertheless, had more difficulties than anticipated to take the victory. The Italian side took advantage at the beginning of the second half through Lorenzo Pellegrini, who received a ball from the Armenian Henrikh Mkhitaryan. However, Trabzons alike with a header from Andreas Cornelius that beat Rui Patricio.
But with nine minutes remaining, Roma achieved the victory with the goal of Uzbek Eldor Shomurodov. Later, Mourinho gave entry to the Spaniards Carles Prez and Borja Mayoral who took the place of Mkhitaryan and Shomurodov.
They also got their ranking on track the Berlin Union, who beat the Finnish KuPS (0-4), the Feyenoord, that rolled the Elfsborg Swede (5-0) and the Stade Rennes after beating the Norwegian Rosenborg (2-0).
Results
Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ) 1 – Maccabi Tel Aviv (ISR) 2
Flora (EST) 4 – Shamrock Rovers (IRL) 2
KuPS Kuopio (FIN) 0 – Union Berlin (ALE) 4
Qarabag (AZE) 1 – Aberdeen (ESC) 0
Rakow (POL) 1 – Ghent (Bel) 0
Hapoel Beer Sheva (ISR) 0 – Anorthosis (CYP) 0
LASK Linz (AUT) 1 – St. Johnstone (ESC) 1
Neftci Baku (AZE) 3 – Maccabi Haifa (Isr) 3
Victoria Plzen (CZE) 2 – CSKA Sofia (BUL) 0
Riga FC (LET) 1 – Lincoln (GIB) 1
Zalgiris (LTU) 2 – Bodo / Glimt (NOR) 2
Basel (SUI) 3 – Hammarby (SWE) 1
Fola (LUX) 1 – Kairat Almaty (KAZ) 4
Trabzonspor (TUR) 1 – Rome (ITA) 2
Anderlecht (BEL) 3 – Vitesse (NED) 3
Feyenoord (NED) 5 – Elfsborg (SWE) 0
Jablonec (CZE) 5 – Zilina (SVK) 1
PAOK Salnica (GRE) 1 – Rijeka (CRO) 1
Sivasspor (TUR) 1 – Copenhagen (DIN) 2
Stade Rennes (FRA) 2 – Rosenborg (NOR) 0
Pacos Ferreira (POR) 1 – Tottenham (ENG) 0
Santa Clara (POR). – Partizan (SRB) in play