Tottenham's Champions League spot in jeopardy after 2-3 loss to young boys Tottenham Hotspur suffered a huge fright in their historic bid for a Champions League berth yesterday, losing 3-2 to Swiss side Young Boys in Berne in the first leg of their play off. <table style="width: 161px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="161" align="right" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/aug/spurs.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr> <tr> <td> Young Boys' Xavier Hochstrasser (left) vies for the ball with Tottenham Hotspur's Robbie Keane during the first leg of their Champions League play-off in Bern yesterday. Young Boys win 3-2. PIC/AFP</td></tr></tbody></table>Spurs got off to a nightmare start, going three down within the first half hour as the Bernese side took full advantage of their artificial pitch. The Premier League side later pulled two back through Sebastien Bassong and Roman Pavyluchenko and stifled the Young Boys' ardour, easing the task for return leg on grass at White Hart Lane and leaving the Swiss underdogs to rue missed opportunities. Two minutes after the kick-off, Young Boys' midfielder Senad Lulic set the tone, with a shot that bounced off the Londoners' post with Heurelho Gomes beaten. The Bosnian took advantage of a kind bounce off another Bernese player's back moments later to slot the loose ball past Gomes. But it swiftly became clear that the Swiss did not need a stroke of luck to get the better of Spurs's unsettled defence. Young Boys Henri Bienvenu made it 2-0 in the 13th minute, after the Londoners lost the ball in midfield. A pass from the Swiss half split Tottenham's defence through the middle, allowing the Cameroon international to outpace Michael Dawson and wrong-foot Gomes with a deft finish. The Bernese seized a third a quarter of an hour later as Xavier Hochstrasser sneaked behind the Spurs left back to pick up a superbly weighted pass by Swiss international hope Moreno Costanzo. Tottenham nonetheless seized a vital away goal from a corner two minutes before half time. Bassong outleapt the Swiss defence and placed a sizzling header above Woelffli's head. Playing with Pavlyuchenko instead of the lanky Peter Crouch upfront, Tottenham ultimately capitalised on the Russian's previous experience of the speedy artificial pitch in the second half. Harry Redknapp brought on Niko Kranjcar for his largely ineffective fellow Croat Luka Modric in midfield, allowing Spurs to dampen the Young Boys growing confidence, while Robbie Keane displaced Jermain Defoe. Pavyluchenko was both at the origin and finish of the flowing move with Keane that produced the Premier League side's second goal in the 82nd minute. Other results l Rosenborg (NOR) 2 (Iversen 23, Henriksen 57) Copenhagen (DEN) 1 (Gronkjaer 84) l Dynamo Kiev (UKR) 1 (Gusev 66) Ajax Amsterdam (NED) 1 (Vertonghen 57) l Sparta Prague (CZE) 0 MSK Zilina (SVK) 2 (Ceesay 51, Oravec 73)

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