Earlier this evening evening manager Mauricio Pochettino sent his depleted Tottenham Hotspur side into battle against talented Dutch side Ajax as we looked to come from behind in the Champions League Semi-Finals and book our place in this year’s final.
With our injuries appearing to catch up with us as we stuttered in the Premier League, causing significant concern about Champions League qualification, other sides slipped up and the advantage remains ours as we head towards the final curtain closer against Everton, so our full focus goes to overcoming the 1-0 deficit.
2-0 down on the night before the halftime break had even come, it didn’t look good. Spurs rallied in the second period and Lucas Moura probably put in the performance of his life as he helped himself to a hattrick to tie the aggregate scores up at 3-3 and we go into the Champions League Final for the first time in our history.
Speaking to the BBC following the fulltime whistle, Poch said of our efforts in the second leg.
“Still difficult to talk. The emotion is amazing, thank you to football. My players are heroes – in the last year I was telling everyone this group are heroes. The second half they were amazing. Thank you football – this type of emotion without football is no possible. Thank you to everyone who has believed in us. To describe this in words is difficult. We were talking before the game that when you work and when you feel the love it’s not stress it’s passion of the team. We showed we love the sport and football. Today was amazing. It was a joy to watch this kind of game. It’s difficult to compete at this level. I am so grateful to be a coach. To be in football and to live this type of football. They are all heroes but Lucas Moura was a superhero. From the first to last one – the tough moment to live in the five years before.”
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