Tottenham Hotspur head coach Andre Villas-Boas has praised his players' performance but bemoaned the referee's performance in their 0-0 draw against Lazio in the Europa League on Thursday. AVB: "Well I think first of all I am very happy with the performance. Obviously we played extremely well and I am extremely happy for the effort that we put in. We are in a competition that we are trying to change the way we look at it in this country. As difficult as it looks. I am extremely happy, the players put in a tremendous effort into the game, we were positive and attacking throughout the game and we managed to put the ball in the back of the net three times. But unfortunately from the mistakes of the ref [referee] we couldn't get the goals that we certainly deserved this evening. In the end we take a point against a team that has been performing so well in Italy and look forward to the away games, we will try then to get the first win to get us to qualification....
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