Llorente

Giuseppe Rossi and Joseba Llorente scored for the host in the first half.

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Mirandes, only the second team from Spain's Segunda B to reach the last four of the cup in its present format, gave themselves hope of pulling off another upset with a late goal in Tuesday's first leg at their tiny stadium in Miranda de Ebro as a Fernando Llorente double gave Bilbao a 2-1 success.

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Spurs have long admired Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente but are unwilling to break the bank to sign the Spain international.

Tottenham face tough task to land Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente 2011

Fernando Llorente scored twice and David Silva added a third in a 3-1 Spanish victory the last time these two played in Lithuania and the away team is a short-priced favorite at 3/10 to do so again here.

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Tottenham Hotspur face an uphill task if they are to sign the Spain forward Fernando Llorente from Athletic Bilbao, with his club unwilling to accept an offer that does not trigger the €36m £31.6m buy-out clause in his contract.

Tottenham face tough task to land Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente 2011

Llorente, who scored 19 goals in 2010-11 to help propel Athletic into a sixth-place finish and the Europa League, has been a long-time target for Spurs, whose interest was intensified once Mirko Vucinic moved from Roma to Juventus last month.

Tottenham face tough task to land Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente 2011

Real Madrid openly courted Fernando Llorente, but the Spanish striker remained at Athletic Bilbao.

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"Representatives from Liverpool arrived in Bilbao and had talks with the leadership of our club, but obviously the club did not want to sell me," Llorente told the Spanish sports newspaper Marca.

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For Susana Llorente, a vice president of the Cuban Institute of Music, "this expresses the realization of our deepest and our common desires."

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Presidential elections were held over the summer with Fernando Garcia Macua duly replaced by Josu Urrutia and the new incumbent understandably keen not to start his tenure at the club by selling Llorente, such an iconic player, who is contracted to the club until 2013.

Tottenham face tough task to land Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente 2011