Spurs out on pens, Chelsea through

Heartbreak ... Tottenham are knocked out of the Europa League on penalties. Source: Georgios Kefalas / AFP

Chelsea were the only Barclays Premier League side to reach the semi-finals of the Europa League, as Tottenham Hotspur endured penalty shootout heartbreak and Newcastle United were beaten by Basel.

Ten-man Tottenham crashed out of the UEFA Europa League after going out 4-1 on penalties to Basel on a dramatic night at St. Jakob Park.

It has finished 2-2 on the night and 4-4 on aggregate after extra-time, but Tom Huddlestone and Emmanuel Adebayor missed in the shoot-out to send the north Londoners out at the quarter-final stage.

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Clint Dempsey's opener was cancelled out by Mohamed Salah before Aleksandar Dragovic gave the Swiss side the lead early in the second half.

However, American Dempsey restored parity with seven minutes remaining before Jan Vertonghen was shown a straight red card in the final minute for bringing down Marco Streller.

The extra 30 minutes failed to produce a goal despite Mohamed Elneny coming closest when he struck the woodwork

Chelsea advanced to the semi-finals with a 5-4 aggregate win over Rubin Kazan despite suffering a 3-2 defeat in Moscow.

The Blues, who held a 3-1 advantage from the first leg at Stamford Bridge, twice took the lead at the Luzhniki Stadium through Fernando Torres and Victor Moses, but second-half goals from Ivan Marcano and Gokdeniz Karadeniz and a Bibras Natkho penalty 15 minutes from time handed the Russians victory on the night

Newcastle bowed out 4-2 on aggregate to Benfica after a 1-1 draw at St James Park.

Papiss Cisse's second half goal reduced the arrears in the tie, but Eduardo Salvio's injury-time strike ended Newcastle's hopes of pulling off a comeback victory.

Cisse also had two goals rightly ruled out for offside as the home side battled to overturn their 3-1 deficit from the first-leg in Portugal, but Benfica did enough to reach the last four.

In the non-English tie, Turkish giants Fenerbahce held off Italian side Lazio to book their spot in the semi-finals.

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Spurs strike late to deny Everton

Late intervention ... Gylfi Sigurdsson celebrates his equaliser. Source: Stephen Pond / AAP

Gylfi Sigurdsson snatched a late equaliser as Tottenham Hotspur denied Champions League qualification rivals Everton victory in a 2-2 draw at White Hart Lane.

Spurs took the lead after just 34 seconds through Emmanuel Adebayor, however first Phil Jagielka and then Kevin Mirallas scored to put the visitors in front.

David Moyes's side were within sight of a fourth-straight league win, only for Sigurdsson to tap home an equaliser in the 87th minute after Adebayor's shot came back off the post.

Tottenham finish the weekend in the fourth and final Champions League qualifying place, but although they are two points above Arsenal and six points clear of Everton, both their pursuers have games in hand.

"It looks like it will go down to the wire at the end of the season for these Champions League spots,'' said Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas.

"It's part of the game - everything shifts very, very quickly in the Premier League, but we have been in this position before and you have to deal with the pressure.''

Moyes insisted that Everton would carry on fighting for a top-four finish.

"I don't know if a point does a great deal for us. If we'd won we'd have been right in it," he said.

"I don't think we're too far away but I just hope the games don't run out. Tottenham are one of the top teams who have been fighting for fourth all season and we have taken four points off them this season so it is not a bad return."

Moyes was happy with the way his team responded after going behind so early, saying: "When you concede after 20 or 30 seconds it's all credit to the players for coming back.

"Tottenham had their tails up but thankfully we kept going and kept at it and played our way out of trouble and got ourselves a few chances.

"Tottenham had a lot of possession and we had to try and work to try and stop that. We didn't do it as well as we'd have liked but I always thought we looked a threat and we could score and we did a couple of times."

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Masked thugs attack Spurs fans

Violent attack ... Spurs fans were set upon at a bar in the French city of Lyon. Source: Paul Hirst / AP

Lyon have apologised to Tottenham following a violent attack on a number of their fans that left three Spurs supporters in a local hospital.

Around 50 masked thugs, some of whom were reportedly making fascist salutes, attacked a group of 150 Spurs fans who had gathered in the Smoking Dog pub in Lyon before their Europa League second leg tie.

Tottenham scored a late equaliser to secure progression against the French side in that match.

Eyewitnesses say the group of attackers smashed doors and threw cast-iron chairs, wooden objects, and a lit flare into the pub, which is popular among ex-pats in the French city.

The French club have responded with a statement, saying: "Olympique Lyonnais deplore the incidents overnight in the Saint-Jean district between the supporters of Tottenham and the 'pseudo' supporters of Lyon who absolutely do not represent the club.

"Olympique Lyonnais apologises to Tottenham and its supporters, for the inadmissible acts which degrade the image of the town of Lyon.

"Olympique Lyonnais call on the French justice system to impose severe sanctions for these reprehensible acts."

Tottenham confirmed that three of their fans sustained 'minor injuries' in the attack, and that a number of arrests had been made.
It is the second time that Tottenham fans have been targeted in the last three months after they were ambushed inside a pub in Rome on the eve of their game against Lazio.

A Tottenham spokesman said earlier: "Club officials attended an incident last night in Lyon. A group of around 50 people confronted fans.

"Spurs officials and stewards will be in the city throughout the day, along with matchday French police ahead of kick-off."

Dave Eales, landlord of the pub, said: "At 10.18 the pub was rammed with Tottenham fans watching the Champions League on the television. The front of the pub, which is made up of reinforced glass, was attacked by 20-25 people.

"They threw projectiles through the windows. There was a stand-off. They didn't get in to the bar. Then it calmed down. Then they came back a second time and it all started again.

"There were three injured Tottenham fans taken away by ambulance. One of them had a head injury. I'm not sure how bad it was."

Spurs fan and journalist Aidan Radnege, who was in the bar at the time of the attack, said: "They came in making Nazi salutes. It was frightening. Rome was fresh in everyone's minds. Everyone realised this was serious."

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