Trailing to goals by Dimitrios Salpigidis and Stefanos Athanasiadis after a chaotic first 15 minutes, Tottenham never quite had the resourcefulness to recover, even when a fortuitous sending-off went in their favour. And Rubin Kazan’s earlier 4-1 victory over Shamrock Rovers meant that their destiny, or at least their ambition of advancing a little further towards next May’s final in Bucharest, was no longer theirs to control.