While Tuesday night was mainly a night for celebration, with Gareth Bale once again at his scintillating best, single handily carving out Spurs» two second half goals for Peter Crouch and Roman Pavlyuchenko whilst taking a part one of Europe's best full - back in Maicon, there was a significant negative to come out of the game and that was the second half
absence of Dutch play - maker Rafael Van Der Vaart, scorer of
Tottenham's first goal and the catalyst upon which a memorable night was founded, with the former Hamburg and Real Madrid sensation now set to miss the trip to Bolton as he continues to nurse a hamstring
injury which has been hampering him for the last month or so.