Europa League matchday one - in pictures

The start of the PAOK v Tottenham match is a pretty even, if uneventful, affair but things get interesting around the half hour mark when Spurs' Harry Kane goes down in the penalty area after getting in a tangle with Pablo Contreras. However the referee doesn't point to the spot, instead he books the young forward for simulation, aka: diving Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images

Two minutes later the Serbian referee does point to the spot after Carlo Cudicini drags down Athanasiadis. PAOK's Lino sends the Spurs keeper the wrong way and strokes the ball into the net. However the ref makes him take the penalty again after deciding that at least one home player had entered the box. Lino has a change of mind and hits the retake the other way but it's a poor strike and goes wide, much to Cudicini's relief Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images

Penny for them Heurelho? Tottenham keeper Gomes cuts a lonely figure as he sits on the bench at half time Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images

PAOK keeper Dario Kresic is all over Roman Pavlyuchenko as he makes an unorthodox attempt to claim the ball Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp looks a bit worried and he had need to towards the end of the match when Cudicini was called upon to make three crucial saves and Vladimir Ivic rattled Spurs' bar in stoppage time. However the Spurs goal carried on living its charmed life and the game finished 0-0 Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images

There's a beautiful night sky at the Valery Lobanovskiy Stadium in Kiev as the Dynamo Kiev and Stoke City teams warm up ahead of kick-off Photograph: Adam Holt/Action Images

Either it's very warm over there this time of the year or the Dynamo Kiev fans are as hard as nails Photograph: Adam Holt/Action Images

Dynamo Kiev's Artem Milevskiy tussles with Kenwyne Jones. The Potters put in a decent performance, taking the lead with a goal by debutant Cameron Jerome, but will be gutted to concede an injury-time equaliser which denied them a winning start to their Europa League group campaign Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

Birmingham City's David Murphy blocks a shot from Braga's Nuno Gomes. There wasn't a good start for the Midlands side when a deft volley from Helder Barbosa opened the scoring after only six minutes Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Braga's Alan, or to give him his full name - Alan Osorio Costa Silva - keeps an eye on the action Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images

Murphy fires a free-kick over the Braga wall but, unfortunately for the Blues, it failed to find the target Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Just before the hour mark Braga's Lima unleashes a thunderous shot into the net from 15 yards to double the lead for the visitors. Marlon King gave the home side some hope in the 71sth minute when he tapped the ball home at the back post Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Birmingham City's keeper Boaz Myhill is a disconsolate figure after Helder Barbosa gets his second and Braga's third in the dying minutes to confirm a 3-1 victory for the visitors Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Over at Craven Cottage, Andrew Johnson outmuscles FC Twente captain Peter Wisgerhof before dinking a smart finish beyond the flailing Nikolay Mihaylov to give Fulham the lead in the 19th minute Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images

Their lead lasted until just before half time when Roberto Rosales, above, bent in a cross which Luuk de Jong headed powerfully against Mark Schwarzer's left post before it pinballed off the Fulham keeper's head and in Photograph: Ian Kington/AFP/Getty Images

Given Bobby Zamora's scowling face, if I were FC Twente's Douglas I'd stay down for a bit longer Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images

Atlético Madrid's Diego Godin, left, and Gabi conspire to rob Celtic's James Forrest. The Bhoys faced an uphill struggle after going behind to a Falcao goal after only three minutes Photograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images

Despite that Celtic put in a good performance but unfortunately the shot count was Atlético 11, Celtic 0. One of those shots came from Diego Ribas Da Cunha in the 68th minute, when he finished smartly from a pullback. The game finished 2-0 Photograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP

There's a party going on amongst the Legia Warszawa fans on the terraces ahead of their match against PSV Eindhoven Photograph: Ermindo Armino/AP

Legia Warsaw's Manu, right, tussles with PSV Eindhoven's Marcelo. The Dutch side won this contest 1-0 courtesy of a Dries Mertens goal midway through the first half Photograph: United Photos/Reuters

PSG's Nene goes for a double Shaka as he celebrates after opening the scoring against FC Salzburg from the penalty spot. His team-mates Mathieu Bodmer and Jeremy Menez added to PSG's tally before Sekagya got a consolation goal for the visitors in the final minutes of the match Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

Some of the 300 anti-Israel protesters that gathered in central Istanbul ahead of the Besiktas v Maccabi Tel Aviv match Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images

It's no wonder that the Turkish riot police and security guards take such drastic measures during the match. Maybe the Maccabi defence should have employed similar tactics – then they wouldn't have lost 5-1 Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters

Over in Ireland, Shamrock Rovers's European dreams are ruined after only three minutes when Obafemi Martins opens the scoring for Rubin Kazan. The powerful Russian side added further goals to cruise to a 3-0 victory Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Lazio goalkeeper Federico Marchetti bravely dives at the feet of an FC Vaslui player. He also had to pick the ball out of his net twice in the space of four minutes around the hour mark. Though thankfully for him, his team-mates Djibril Cisse and Giuseppe Sculli also notched so the game finished 2-2 Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images