Tottenham have picked up where they left off last season, where high Champions League drama came as standard and they appeared to have an addiction to doing things the hard way.
After half an hour in the Athenian port of Piraeus they had twice enjoyed what visiting teams here crave – the brief sound of silence. First Harry Kane, from the penalty spot, and then Lucas Moura with a firecracker from distance cut through the bedlam whipped up by the Olympiakos die-hards to put Spurs in charge.
Written by David Hytner at the Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/sep/18/olympiakos-tottenham-hotspur-champions-league-match-report under the title “Mathieu Valbuena penalty crowns Olympiakos recovery to deny Spurs”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
