TOTTENHAM were given a footballing lesson by Villarreal in the first half of their friendly match at White Hart Lane and head in to the break trailing by two Guiseppe Rossi goals.

The team nicknamed the Yellow Submarine were on a destroying mission in the first 45 minutes and they managed to sink Spurs with a display of intricate, free-flowing football.

Santi Cazorla, Villarreal's star player in midfield, fired just wide, following a curled effort from David Fuster that missed the far post by inches.

On 17 minutes Jermain Defoe was released down the right and cut in on to his left foot, only to go down under a Spanish challenge. But referee Kevin Friend waved away the England striker's appeals for a penalty.

Jermaine Jenas skewed a shot wide of the post from the edge of the area, and that was to be the midfielder's last piece of action, as he was taken off as a precaution, to be replaced by Danny Rose, who took up station next to Tom Huddlestone in the centre of midfield.

Just two minutes later, with 21 gone, Villarreal took the lead.

The Spaniards had just started to find their passing rhythm and they took the lead following their best move up to that point.

The midfielders stretched Tottenham by spreading the ball from the left to the right, then back to the centre, where Cazorla was able to find the run of Rossi, and the former Manchester United striker kept his cool to finish clinically past Heurelho Gomes with a left footed shot that found the far corner of the net.

The visitors grew in stature after that point, knocking the ball around with consummate ease, leaving Spurs' players chasing shadows.

Ten minute later and they had doubled their advantage.

Marcos Senna, former Spain midfield enforcer, threaded a ball through Tottenham's high line and it found its way through to Rossi, who bore down on Gomes, took his time, and produced a carbon copy finish into the bottom corner.