Ramos earns his Spurs

With better finishing the visitors would have had the points safe by the interval, but all they had to show for their work was a two-goal advantage.

Ramos responded with a positive substitution by bringing on Darren Bent, who grabbed the winner after Dimitar Berbatov and Steed Malbranque had levelled the scores.

It took AaB less than two minutes to show why they are level on points at the top of the Danish league. Thomas Enevoldsen stroked the ball into the top corner from the edge of the area, after receiving a throw from Martin Pedersen.

The visitors had plenty more chances to embarrass the hosts - Rade Prica was fortunate to be ruled onside when Andreas Johansson slipped him through on goal, but the striker was unlucky not to get a penalty when Lee Young-Pyo hauled him to the floor.

Siyabonga Nomvethe was given time to set his sights from long range but fired wide, while Prica would have had a run straight at Paul Robinson if he had controlled a through-ball.

The second goal came eight minutes from the break when Michael Dawson failed to clear and the ball slipped through him. Prica crossed from the left flank and Kasper Risgard stabbed in at the second attempt.

The head coach may have read the riot act during the interval but it was his bold substitutions that turned the game, bringing on Bent and Tom Huddlestone. The England Under-21 midfielder sliced the Aalborg club's defence open with a through-ball and Berbatov toe-poked in for his fourth of the season.

Berbatov set up the equaliser with his work on the right six minutes later, out-muscling Pedersen then crossing. Robbie Keane worked the ball to Malbranque whose finish went in off the underside of the crossbar.

Bent grabbed the winner in the 66th minute, tapping in from Aaron Lennon's cross after Gareth Bale's free-kick had been parried.