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Postecoglou, his interview finished, goes over to hug his spouse and youngsters. The entire household gathered up in his arms. Everybody pleased with dad. One other candy second.
The bicycle-kicking hero Micky van de Ven tells TNT about his goal-line clearance. “I noticed the ball are available in … I believe it bounced off Vic’s head … I assumed no, I’ve to go to the aim … first I used to be like, how am I going to do that?! … after which I simply cleared it … to be trustworthy my again … the bottom over there may be not comfortable!”
The Spurs followers within the background chanting his identify to the music of KC and the Sunshine Band.
Postecoglou additionally has just a few candy phrases for his captain Heung-min Son. “There are such a lot of [Spurs players] who haven’t had a day like this … I needed a day like this for Sonny … he’s finished every part he can within the final ten years … it was in my head … exterior the dressing rooms, within the hallways, there are pictures of the successful groups, and I stated to Sonny, ‘we gotta get you up there’ … he’s there now.”
As for his personal future, Postecoglou provides: “We’re nonetheless constructing this staff … it’s nonetheless a really younger staff … we have to add some expertise … we’re within the Champions League … I’m attempting to construct a staff that may be profitable for 4, 5, six years … if I’m the supervisor of the soccer membership, that call is just not in my arms … however it doesn’t have an effect on me … all I cared about is that this factor [tugs at his medal] round my neck as a result of if I had this factor it meant this soccer membership has received a trophy … I don’t really feel like I’ve accomplished a job right here … we’re nonetheless constructing … once I joined I had one factor in my head and that’s to win one thing … we’ve finished that now … I need to construct on it.”
Ange Postecoglou speaks to TNT Sports activities. “I’m nonetheless attempting to take all of it in … I do know what it means for this soccer membership … the longer it goes on it’s more durable to interrupt that cycle … I may sense nervousness on the membership … we’ve received a very younger group and I’m hoping having tasted success, it feeds into itself, they really feel otherwise about themselves … and it’s primarily for the supporters … there will probably be supporters who’ve been following us for 41 years since we’ve received in Europe … I wasn’t boasting [about always winning in his second year] … it was me making a declaration … I believed it … I do know our league kind has been unacceptable however us ending third wasn’t going to alter this soccer membership … what is going to change it’s us successful … that was my intent … if I fell brief I used to be joyful to cop it … I used to be ready to put on it if it didn’t occur … it’s how the membership perceives itself … persons are fast to take photographs on the membership … I really feel typically they haven’t defended themselves … there’s no cause they will’t go into subsequent season believing they will win one other trophy … hopefully this takes the membership ahead.”
That remaining isn’t going to go down as one of many greats, however Tottenham Hotspur received’t care. Definitely the aim was some scrappy nonsense – not that Brennan Johnson will fear, he’s written into Spurs folklore now – however there have been a few different moments that may stay within the reminiscence as nicely. Guglielmo Vicario’s last-gasp save from Luke Shaw was a stunner, however Micky van de Ven’s acrobatic goal-line clearance from Rasmus Højlund was one thing else. They’ll kind a part of the legend as nicely. Heroes all.
Right here’s the up to date Europa League / Uefa Cup roll of honour. Spurs a part of European royalty now!
7: Sevilla
3: Internazionale, Liverpool, Juventus, Atlético Madrid, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
2: Borussia Mönchengladbach, Feyenoord, Eintracht Frankfurt, Göteborg, Actual Madrid, Parma, Porto, Chelsea
1: Anderlecht, Bayer Leverkusen, Ajax, MANCHESTER UNITED, PSV Eindhoven, Ipswich City, Napoli, Bayern Munich, Schalke, Galatasaray, Valencia, CSKA Moscow, Zenit Saint Petersburg, Shakhtar Donetsk, Villarreal, Atalanta
Tottenham Hotspur: 2025 Europa League winners!
Son Heung-min, who so desperately needed to elevate a trophy for the membership he’s served with distinction since 2015, lastly will get his want. A heat smile performs throughout his face as he receives the large vase from Uefa president Aleksander Čeferin, kisses it, wanders over the rostrum the place his mates are bouncing in anticipation … and hoists the Europa League trophy excessive into the Bilbao sky! Down comes the glitter. Everybody Spurs en fête!
Tottenham Hotspur come up for his or her winners medals. Ange Postecoglou can’t cease smiling, and no surprise, as a gold medal is draped round his neck. He’s a European winner for Spurs, becoming a member of an elite managerial membership populated by real Spurs legends in Invoice Nicholson and Keith Burkinshaw.
Manchester United, led by their disenchanted captain Bruno Fernandes, are given a guard of honour by Spurs as they go as much as accumulate their silver medals. A stunning contact as Harry Maguire stops to congratulate James Maddison, who he’ll have performed with for Leicester and England. Maddison could have blended emotions tonight I’m positive, having missed the large one by means of damage, however he greater than did his half in getting Spurs right here. Some beautiful sporting gestures for the reason that remaining whistle.
There are a whole lot of Manchester United gamers sporting thousand-yard stares. Ange Postecoglou makes a degree of peeling off from the Spurs celebrations and wandering amongst these his staff have conquered, providing his commiserations. Bruno Fernandes, who appears to be like completely distraught, appreciated the gesture I believe.
Guglielmo Vicario, who made such a vital save from Luke Shaw throughout stoppage time, speaks to TNT. “I nonetheless can’t imagine what we’ve finished tonight … it’s unbelievable … we’ve got written historical past … Micky van de Ven was sensible on the road … we did it, we delivered, and now we’ve got to have fun!”
Brennan Johnson, exhausted, ecstatic, the Welsh flag draped round his shoulders, talks to TNT Sport. “I’m so joyful proper now … actually … this season hasn’t been good in any respect, however I swear, not a kind of gamers proper now care about that … that is what it’s all about … this membership hasn’t received a trophy for 17 years … it means a lot … all of the followers get battered, we get battered, for not successful a trophy … we received the primary one shortly immediately … I’m so joyful … ever since I’ve been right here it’s been ‘Tottenham are a very good staff however can by no means get it finished’ … we received it finished … I knew I touched it [for the goal] … then I regarded up as a result of I didn’t catch it cleanly … I can’t describe the sensation! … [what were the last few minutes like?] horrible … I couldn’t watch … the reduction is one thing I can by no means describe … the followers have been so good … I assumed they’d the sting on the United followers to be trustworthy … it received us by means of the sport … Ange has finished his job … he stated he wins in his second yr and he has … if there’s ever a time for a mic-drop I believe it’s now, so I’ll be wanting ahead to his interview! … I can’t thank him sufficient for a way a lot belief he’s had in us … he’s received a approach of getting us up for it within the Europa League.”
The white shirts of Tottenham Hotspur have fun a trophy for the primary time for the reason that 2008 League Cup. Their first European trophy since 1984. The acquainted celebration strains of Freed From Need pump out of the audio system. Spurs are free of 17 years of bitter frustration. Large Ange received them there in any case!
The whistle goes, the Spurs bench empties and races onto the pitch in sheer delight. A disenchanted Ruben Amorim goes over and sportingly provides his reverse quantity a hug. Ange Postecoglou then stares into the stand, an enormous smile of pleasure and reduction unfold throughout his face. Each fists clenched in triumph. Hey, he at all times wins a trophy in his second yr! The match-winner Brennan Johnson soaks it in. He’s taken just a few pelters this season, however now he’s etched his identify indelibly into Tottenham historical past!
FULL TIME: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Manchester United
Glory, glory Tottenham Hotspur! Their lengthy watch for a significant trophy is over!
90 min +8: One final likelihood for United, who win a nook down the appropriate. Diallo sticks it into the mixer. It drops to Casemiro, who shoots … and ripples the aspect netting! That’s certainly it.
90 min +7: Diallo crosses from the appropriate. Shaw meets it with a header within the center. A robust effort in the direction of the underside proper! However Vicario, who was going the opposite approach, will get all the way down to parry clear! What a save!
90 min +6: Diallo crosses in from the appropriate. A kerfuffle on the far stick. Maguire goes over, and the group scream for a penalty, however the United gamers don’t trouble.
90 min +5: Romero performs a poor cross out of defence. He breathes once more as Yoro sends an excessively bold drive miles over the bar.
90 min +4: Fernandes volleys a cross vast proper to Diallo, who curls a superb cross into the centre. There are a number of pink shirts ready to satisfy it – Maguire specifically – however Danso heads clear. A clearance nearly as good as a aim.
90 min +3: The Spurs followers discover their voice. United’s look pensive. The clock ticks on.
90 min +2: Maguire will get on the top of a protracted speculative hoof however can solely whiff a header vast left.
90 min +1: The referee comes throughout to the United bench to ebook the substitute Lindelof, who’s ranting and raving within the theatrical fashion.
90 min: Spurs make a double change. On come Grey and Spence for Sarr and Udogie. In the meantime United change Dorgu with Mainoo. There will probably be seven added minutes. Loads of time but for United to avoid wasting themselves.
88 min: … yep, and now Maguire goes into the ebook for a late clatter into the again of his pal Romero, who takes the chance to remain down within the clock-management fashion.
87 min: One other lengthy ball looped into the Spurs field. Vicario claims. Maguire goes over, then will get up and has a moan at Romero. The pair have been at all of it night. Tempers being misplaced, equilibrium out the window.
86 min: Dalot has come on for Mazraoui. Fernandes swings a free kick from the appropriate in the direction of Maguire on the far stick. Maguire wins a header however Vicario claims and seems he was offside anyway.
85 min: Udogie makes good down the left and is caught from behind by Zirkzee, who goes into the ebook. Fernandes races throughout to present the referee the what-for. He’s fuming. He’s asking for bother, however the referee lets him blow himself out. Son swings the ensuing free kick to the far stick, the place Danso extends a leg however is unable to attach. Had he received something on it, Onana would have had work to do.
83 min: Solanke jinks right into a pocket of house down the appropriate and affords the Spurs defence some much-needed reduction. He tries to feed Son with a cross infield, however Mazraoui is on level to intercept and put an finish to the counter. A better run from Son, or a greater cross from Solanke, and United would have been in all types of trouble. With Mazraoui the one defender again, it was on.
81 min: Yoro sashays down the appropriate and sends a harmful ball by means of the Spurs six-yard field … however there’s no one there in pink to poke house.
80 min: United preserve pushing Spurs again. However there’s no approach by means of as of but. No approach out for Spurs although. The stress in San Mamés is palpable.
78 min: Johnson, who might or might not be the goalscorer, is changed by Danso. Large Ange goes defensive, with the trophy now inside touching distance.
76 min: United have turned up the tempo. Shaw bursts down the left and goes over the sliding Romero’s leg. He desires a penalty however he’s not getting it. Aim kick. Shaw was exterior the field anyway, although it most likely ought to have been a free kick. Spurs get away with one.
75 min: Garnacho drives in from the left and curls powerfully in the direction of the bottom-right nook. Vicario does nicely to get down and whip the ball across the put up with a robust hand. The ensuing nook is barely half cleared, and Diallo wins one other one with a dribble down the appropriate. Spurs cope with the second.
73 min: Area for Mazraoui down the inside-right channel. An excessive amount of house from a Spurs perspective. He curls in the direction of Fernandes, operating into the field. Fernandes stoops and steers a header vast proper. Good likelihood, that. Fernandes could have anticipated to do higher. “Edward O’Brien’s half-time e-mail jogs my memory of a letter to the editor within the LA Instances someday within the Eighties about individuals criticising Ronald and Nancy Reagan,” writes Michael Fugate. “Which went one thing like: ‘Ron and Nancy appear to be good individuals. Doesn’t niceness depend for something?’”
71 min: United make a double change. Hojlund and Mount make approach for Garnacho and Zirkzee.
70 min: If Spurs win this remaining, they’ll replay that Van de Ven clearance greater than the aim. It’ll get a very good airing both approach, to be honest.
68 min: Bissouma is booked for stopping Diallo taking a fast free kick. The ensuing set piece is hoicked into the mixer from the centre circle by Fernandes. Vicario comes off his line to assert. He doesn’t handle it. Hojlund loops a header over the stranded keeper and it’s heading in. However Van de Ven acrobatically hooks off the road! A spectacular bicycle kick! Spurs draw a foul within the subsequent section of play and the hazard is over. United so near an equaliser. Spurs deny them in fashion.
66 min: Off comes Richarlison’s boot. He’s finished. His captain Son comes on to switch him. In the meantime Ruben Amorim takes the chance to difficulty helpful tactical recommendation to his staff.
65 min: Richarlison goes down, wanting over to the bench and performing the substitution hand-mime as he does so.
64 min: Richarlison whips a clearance down the left touchline. Fernandes telescopes a leg to divert it out for a throw, and United are lucky he did, as a result of in any other case Johnson was scampering into acres down the flank.
62 min: Johnson romps down the appropriate and is upended by Dorgu, however doesn’t get the choice. United go up the opposite finish, Diallo twisting and turning down the inside-left channel however failing to get a shot away. After which Spurs counter the counter, Solanke one-twoing with Udogie down the center, solely to stumble when receiving the return cross. He was in house simply contained in the United field. A large likelihood wasted.
60 min: United have accomplished 241 passes to Tottenham’s 96. A lot good it’s finished them thus far. “Am I lacking the purpose or is Edward O’Brien’s half time e-mail not meant to be hilarious?” asks Stephen McCrossan. I can’t converse for him, however we should always remind ourselves that irony is flat on the web page.
58 min: Richarlison fouls an in-flight Mazraoui out on the appropriate. He’s booked, presumably for repeated offences, given seconds earlier he was rolling round on the ground with the ball in his arms to harass Fernandes. Anyway, the free kick’s whipped to the close to put up by Fernandes, and Yoro extends a leg to get a comfortable contact on the ball. He can’t drive it into the underside proper, although, and Vicario does sufficient to scoop it away. Shut.