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.