Tottenham, Fiorentina and Hamburg took big steps towards the last 16 of the UEFA Cup with away victories, while Bayern Munich twice hit back to draw Aberdeen 2-2.

Spurs, whose manager Juande Ramos has won the UEFA Cup title for the past two seasons with Sevilla, won 2-1 at Slavia Prague, Hamburg won 3-1 at FC Zurich, and Fiorentina 1-0 at Rosenborg on Thursday.

In other games, Bolton edged Atletico Madrid 1-0.

Tottenham cruised into a 2-0 lead against Czech league leaders Slavia in Prague before goalkeeper Radek Cerny, playing against his former club, gifted the home side a reply.

In the fourth minute, Dimitar Berbatov fired home a 20-metre shot for his 16th goal of the season and third in three games and Spurs went further ahead in the 30th.

From a breakaway from their own area, Spurs moved swiftly and Robbie Keane took a pass from Jermaine Jenas, drew the goalkeeper off his line and rolled the ball into an empty net.

But for some standout saves by Slavia goalkeeper Martin Vaniak, Spurs would have gone into next week’s second leg at White Hart Lane with a far bigger lead. But Cerny dropped a routine cross while on the line near the post in the 69th, and David Strihavka scored to reward Slavia’s second-half fightback.

Adrian Mutu was left unmarked to score Fiorentina’s 15th-minute goal at Rosenborg, and second half strikes by David Jarolim, Ivica Olic and Piotr Trochowski gave Hamburg a 3-0 lead at Zurich which replied through Eric Hassli with two minutes to go.

Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich appeared in danger of an upset loss in the first leg at Pittodrie when they trailed 2-1 at half-time. But Turkish midfielder Hamit Altintop equalised in the 55th minute after his penalty was blocked by goalkeeper Jamie Langfield.

Josh Walker gave Aberdeen a 24th lead with a 20-metre shot only for Miroslav Klose to level five minutes later from close range off Luca Toni’s headed flick-on.

Sone Aluko collected a pass from Lee Miller and fired home in the 41st but Altintop made sure Munich do not go into next Thursday’s second leg trailing.

“I think we played out of our skins today,” said Aluko, whose pass set up Walker’s goal. “In the first half, we were magnificent, in the second half we dug in and got a result.”

Bayern were weakened by the absence of the injured Marc van Bommel and Franck Ribery and veteran Oliver Kahn flew back to Germany citing sickness.

Bayern lost 3-2 to Aberdeen in the now defunct Cup Winners Cup in 1983 when the Dons won that title under Alex Ferguson.

El-Hadji Diouf scored Bolton’s winner against Atletico Madrid in the 74th, soon after the visitor’s Sergio Aguero was sent off for spitting at Wanderers’ Matt Taylor.