Tottenham wonderkid Will Lankshear’s dream European evening quickly turned into a nightmare.
Lankshear, 19, netted his first senior goal for the Lilywhites when his strike fired Spurs level against Galatasaray – but, 42 minutes later, he was handed his marching orders after picking up two bookings in the second-half.
Lankshear had been deemed to have caught a Galatasaray player with his arm before a clumsy tackle on Gabriel Sara saw him handed his second yellow card – with Spurs already trailing 3-1 at the time of his red.
“Will took his goal well. He worked hard for the team,” Ange Postecoglou said after the game. “Obviously he hasn’t had a lot of experience of senior football. He will have learned a lot from today. It was just an overenthusiastic challenge.
“He will have learned a lot. The same with Lucas. It’s about learning the levels required. I thought Archie was great and all three of them will have learned a lot from a night like this.”
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He added: “I just felt it was self-inflicted. We had real simple solutions out there to keep the ball. It wasn’t that hard. We showed it with 10 men. We just needed to be stronger on the ball and play the kind of football we play every week.
“Maybe it was a little bit the changes I made and the environment and atmosphere, but the moments that stick out to me was giving the ball away.
“We were playing through them quite easily with 10 men but with 11 men we had nowhere near that conviction and that was disappointing.”