Tottenham 3-0 Qarabag: Spurs make perfect start in Europa League despite early Radu Dragusin red card

Tottenham made a perfect start to their Europa League campaign as they beat Qarabag 3-0, despite playing with ten men for more than 80 minutes.

Kick-off was delayed by 35 minutes in north London due to “severe travel disruption”, and it was a disastrous opening for Spurs when the match finally did get underway.

Radu Dragusin was shown a straight red card in the early stages for losing the ball and then bringing down Juninho as the last man, and it left Spurs facing a more awkward night on home soil than most would have expected.

Brennan Johnson , though, continued his impressive form to opening the scoring, and Pape Matar Sarr doubled the lead after the break as he volleyed in from a corner.

Qarabag created chances throughout and should immediately have halved the deficit, when Yves Bissouma gave away a penalty, but Toral Bayramov’s spot-kick flicked the top of the bar and flew over.

That, unsurprisingly, proved to be a decisive miss, as Dominic Solanke then put the match to bed with just over 20 minutes remaining, turning home from close range after Heung-min Son’s effort had been saved.