Assistant boss Chris Hughton, said: "We've watched a lot of tapes of Besiktas and it was what I expected. They won 1-0 on Sunday, the stadium was about two-thirds full."
"The opposition - Glenclerbirligi, who started the game mid-table - played well and gave them quite a few problems but Besiktas were quite strong in the end. Even though it finished 1-0, they could have added another couple towards the end."
"In most of the games we've watched it's been very much a 4-4-2 system with either a diamond shape in midfield, so four defenders, two strikers, one player behind the front two, one holding midfielder, one left and one right or sometimes a flat midfield four. They've played at some stage with four in midfield in a 4-4-1-1, one front player behind the striker. Basically a back four with variations in midfield and up front."
"On Sunday they went with a diamond in midfield with two strikers who both worked very hard, chased everything and were strong in the air. If anything, Tigana played a diamond shape at Fulham and they were always a very good footballing team."
"The offensive players did well. Nobre and Gulec up front worked very hard across the line. Possibly the biggest threat on the night was Delgado, the Argentinian who was at Basle, who played behind the front two. He was on all the set-plays."
"A young player Burak Yilmaz played right-sided on Sunday, he's scored a few goals for them this season."
"The left-back, Uzlmez, got forward more than the right-back Toraman - outside of two fairly big centre-halves. Zan was the goalscorer on the night."
Les Ferdinand, who played for Besiktas on loan in 1988, said: "There wasn't as much European football when I was there but when any English teams came over to Istanbul it was massive for the team involved and all the supporters from the other teams would go along as well. It was like a World Cup game. It was an unbelievable atmosphere."Source: TottenhamHotspur.com