Peter Crouch has given Tottenham Hotspur a shock lead at the San Siro, a goal that comes totally against the run of play after a long spell of dominance from the home side. It was right winger Aaron Lennon who did the bulk of the work, however, bursting onto a loose ball in his own half and sprinting off into acres of space. With Lennon and Crouch up against AC Milan's centre back pairing of Mario Yepes and Alessandro Nesta, Lennon skipped past a lunging challenge from Yepes and squared it to Crouch, who finished sweetly into the bottom left of Marco Amelio's net to make it 1-0 Tottenham. Milan have less than ten minutes left to turn this game around.
UEFA Champions League, AC Milan Vs. Tottenham Hotspur: Peter Crouch Opens The Scoring
They should also probably consider themselves very lucky not to be down to ten or even nine men. Just minutes after Mathieu Flamini escaped a straight red card offence with just a booking, the midfielder went straight through the back of Peter Crouch with no attempt at playing the ball. It should have been a second yellow, but instead the ref simply gave Tottenham a foul and told the furious Spurs players to get on with it. Gennaro Gattuso has also been walking a fine line after shoving coach Joe Jordan in the face, getting into a series of shoving matches with Crouch, and finally was cautioned for taking out Stephen Pienaar, who’s now been substituted for Nico Kranjcar. Gattuso’s booking will rule him out of the return leg at White Hart Lane, and the Italian isn’t very happy about that - perhaps he’d do better to play without being a 5’8” tower of burning rage in the future.
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