Tottenham 2 Basle 2: 

Bale is injuried

Tottenham Hotspur were held to a 2 - 2 draw in the Europa League Thursday night and hence Andre Villas-Boas hopes of lifting the cup for a second time hangs in the balance, thanks largely to a woeful defensive performance and a serious-looking injury to Gareth Bale.

Basle lived up to their name as giant-killers after last year's defeat of Manchester United and Bayern Munich. They scored two impressive away goals.

Emmanuel Adebayor's fifth goal of the season and Gylfi Sigurdsson's second-half effort brought the scores level after Spurs had gone down 2 nil.

The two away goals leave Villas-Boas' men in serious danger of exiting the competition at the quarter-final stages.