Tottenham knew only a win would do in Russia after a slow start to their Champions League campaign.
Defeat to Monaco at Wembley put Spurs in a tough position, but a crucial 1-0 over CSKA Moscow has given the Londoners hope of progressing to the knockout stages.
Heung-Min Son scored the only goal of the night, latching onto a clever Erik Lamela pass to slot home midway through the second half.
The visitors took their time to grow into the game, but gradually became the better side and fully deserved all three points.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to the result and performance.
From Russia With Love! A mature performance with five regulars out! A wonderful result. We love this team! #COYS #THFC
— The Spurs Show (@spursshow) September 27, 2016
That is a fantastic result. Didn't play well and got the win away in Europe.
On to City. Have to play a lot better than that! #COYS
— Jon. (@jonhotspur88) September 27, 2016
What an excellent professional away performance! ???? #COYS
— Kenny Palmer (@KennyPalmer) September 27, 2016
Yesss! What a win. Sets up the two Leverkusen games nicely. Get in my Son!
— The Spurs Brain (@TheSpursBrain) September 27, 2016
A very, very astute performance esp considering the players that didn't travel. Impressive game changing cameo from @gknkoudou #thfc
— Rees Hitchcock (@ReesHitchcock) September 27, 2016
Huge amount of credit to Pochettino for making such a big call to change that. Won us the game.
— Chris Miller (@WindyCOYS) September 27, 2016
Well done boys great 3 points, dominated game and should have got more, job done COYSSSSSS
— Micky Hazard (@1MickyHazard) September 27, 2016
Tricky place to go and totally dominated them. The win no more than we deserved. Job done #COYS
— Paul O Keefe (@pokeefe1) September 27, 2016
Well it was a bloody difficult watch, but given the first XI available, and the location, that is a very, very good win. Onwards! #COYS
— Tom Edwards (@tomedwards) September 27, 2016
Excellent result for us over in France where Monaco equalised against Leverkusen late on. We're now second in the group – one point off top.
— Spurs In The Blood (@SpursInTheBlood) September 27, 2016
I feel for Janssen, much as I did for Soldado…why play one up front when the players ‘in the second row’ simply have no idea how to play off a central pivot.
Let’s face it Gillingham presented more of an attacking threat than CSKA…
HK doesn’t play up front…look at his ‘heat maps’ from last season and he’s closer to the halfway line than the box for the most part…
I’m pleased Lamela provided the assist…it goes some way to offset the number of times he gave the ball away…
Roll on Sunday….
If that game ended as a draw I feel we would have been slating Eriksen, gave the ball away lot , didn’t have the commitment in the tackle he needs if he wants to keep his place. good showing from nkoudu , lamela and dele were not on their games but with more to come from them. Overall great result despite a very average performance against a poor team , once Dembele is back the performance level of the others will increase and this season could be even better than last. COYS
Son should be striker instead of Kane and Jansen
i bet you said that about Son last season Janseen will take time he is not up to speed yet as for Kane wash your mouth out
Janssen not making use of opportunities in Kane’s absence