Tottenham Hotspur booked their place in the next round of the Champions League with a very creditable draw against Barcelona at the Nou Camp earlier this week.
Heading into Tuesday evening’s affair, we knew we just had to match Inter Milan’s result to secure progression and as they drew against PSV Eindhoven, Lucas Moura grabbed our leveller to take a point and ensure we did just that.
For former player Jermaine Jenas, his star of the show was left-back Danny Rose and football.london quote his words from the BT Sport studio given their coverage of the game.
“There were some big performances tonight, Danny Rose was absolutely sensational, Christian Eriksen was dropping into that deeper position and he can play a pass from anywhere. That’s a big moment for Mauricio Pochettino and his side. They had more than one opportunity to make it far more comfortable, but sometimes football is like this and you just have to stick at it. They believed, they felt they could get back into it, they ground out the result they needed and today the players were brilliant and deserved more.”
Individual fans will have their own thoughts on his star man from the game, but Rose certainly came in for praise on social media following the fulltime whistle, but he’s also right in saying that in many ways a point was the least we deserved for our efforts on the night as given the chances we fashioned it could’ve been all three.
It was what we needed though and that’s all that matters.