Ahhhh the night finally arrived and spirits were high that Tottenham Hotspur would take a positive result in our first Champions League Semi-Final against Ajax earlier this evening.
Having completely turned our European form around this year, despite the almost endless injuries that seem to have blighted what may have been an even better campaign, we were looking to take all we could from White Hart Lane comforts as we approach the second leg, as our Dutch opposition have been in good form themselves.
They were in good form, and clearly, they showed in the first half that they had no intention of changing that as they pretty roundly battered us – taking a 15th minute lead in the process. They didn’t create much in the way of real chances, but we couldn’t gloat having failed to get one of our four efforts on target by the halftime break.
Having lost Jan Vertonghen to injury in minute 39, there was everything to do in the next 45 minutes but we did finish the half slightly stronger than we had been.
We were far better after the break, but chances continued to go begging on target but we were more ourselves so to speak. More of that and this tie isn’t over yet, especially when we welcome Sonny back from suspension as we finished far stronger than we started, but with so many players having a poor game we didn’t have the bench with our injuries, so take the positives and give it everything in the next one.
White Hart Lane
Champions League Semi-Finals - 1st Leg
30/04/2019 8:00 pm
Referee: Lahoz
Tottenham Hotspur | Ajax | ||||||
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van de Beek (15) | |||||||
Lloris | Onana | ||||||
Sanchez | Veltman | ||||||
Alderweireld | de Ligt | ||||||
Vertonghen | 39 | Blind | |||||
Wanyama | Tagliafico | ||||||
Trippier | 80 | Schone | 65 | ||||
Eriksen | de Jong | ||||||
Alli | Ziyech | 87 | |||||
Rose | 79 | van de Beek | |||||
Llorente | Neres | ||||||
Lucas Moura | Tadic | ||||||
Substitutes |
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Dier | Sinkgraven | ||||||
Walker-Peters | Huntelaar | 87 | |||||
Sissoko | 39 | Mazraoui | 65 | ||||
Foyth | 80 | Magallan | |||||
Gazzaniga | Dolberg | ||||||
Davies | 79 | Semedo Varela | |||||
Skipp | de Wit |
Game Statistics |
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12 | Goal attempts | 10 |
1 | On Target | 2 |
3 | Corners | 3 |
14 | Fouls | 14 |
0 | Yellow Cards | 2 |
0 | Red Cards | 0 |
51 | % | 49 |