The Dutch goalkeeper kicked-off his professional football career at FC Utrecht in 2000 and 17 years on, aged 34, made his first appearance in the Champions League.
Captain for the night, the goalkeeper presided over a comfortable victory with plenty of plus-points for the manager including Champions League debuts for Juan Foyth, Kyle Walker-Peters and Kazaiah Sterling, the latest Academy player to graduate to a first team appearance. There were also first Spurs goals for Fernando Llorente and GK Nkoudou.
Fernando opened the scoring on 20 minutes, Heung-Min Son hit a trademark curler for 2-0 on 37 minutes and GK wrapped it up 10 minutes from time.