Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas expects UEFA response to apparent racist abuse
Friday 15 March 2013 09:56, UK
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Andre Villas-Boas expects UEFA to act after Inter Milan fans appeared to racially abuse Tottenham players as they fought back to reach the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals.
Overshadowed
The fact Tottenham had to contend with racist abuse understandably overshadowed what was a difficult night on the field.
Having romped to a 3-0 win the first leg, Spurs were outclassed at the San Siro as Antonio Cassano, Rodrigo Palacio and a William Gallas own goal took the game to extra-time.
Inter scored again through Ricardo Alvarez but not until after Adebayor scored the vital away goal.
Villas-Boas said: "We set out today to try and get a goal away that would put us in an extremely confident position.
"I think today what happened to us was a bit like what happened to Inter in London.
"They are not as bad as their performance in London and we're not as a bad as the performance we showed today.
"There are still lots of positives in an evening like this because the desire to reach the last eight of the competition was always there from the players, even in extra-time, which is an excellent sign for us."
