Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Panathinaikos: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 6 December 2012

Result

Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Panathinaikos

Europa League · Thursday 6 December 2012, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-0

Tottenham Hotspur · Panathinaikos · Europa League predictions

Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Panathinaikos: match report

Tottenham Hotspur defeated Panathinaikos 3-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 6 December 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.

Emmanuel Adebayor opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Emmanuel Adebayor (29'), an own goal by Orestis Karnezis (76') and Jermain Defoe (83'). Panathinaikos scored through Zeca (54').

Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received 1 yellow card; Panathinaikos received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 61st on 7 points from 5 and Panathinaikos 94th on 5 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Tottenham Hotspur wins, 1 draw and 0 for Panathinaikos.

Going into the match Tottenham Hotspur's last five read D-W-D-D-D and Panathinaikos's W-L-D-D-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Goal · Emmanuel AdebayorTottenham Hotspur · 1-0
  • 54'Goal · ZecaPanathinaikos · 1-1
  • 66'Yellow card · Kyle NaughtonTottenham Hotspur
  • 68'Yellow card · Nikos SpyropoulosPanathinaikos
  • 76'Own goal · Orestis KarnezisTottenham Hotspur · 2-1
  • 83'Goal · Jermain DefoeTottenham Hotspur · 3-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Tottenham Hotspur 0, draws 1, Panathinaikos 0.

Team news

Tottenham Hotspur line-up

Jan Vertonghen, Kyle Naughton, Kyle Walker, Steven Caulker, Tom Carroll, Clint Dempsey, Emmanuel Adebayor, Aaron Lennon, Jermain Defoe, Brad Friedel, Sandro

Panathinaikos line-up

Charalampos Mavrias, Giorgios Seitaridis, Loukas Vyntra, Nikos Spyropoulos, Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos, Ibrahim Sissoko, Vitolo, Artem Stargorodskyi, Pape Sow, Toché, Orestis Karnezis