DEUTSCHE BANK PARK – Can it be that the impossible dream lives on? In this sizzling sanctuary of fire and brimstone away from the desperate misery of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur roared into the Europa League semi-finals – and saved Ange Postecoglou’s job.
So it is Dominic Solanke who steps up, stuttering, perhaps replaying in his mind the two disastrous penalties from Bukayo Saka and Eberechi Eze on Wednesday. The thud of the drums ahead of him is bellowing.
Tottenham celebrate the end of a torturous night in Frankfurt (Photo: Reuters)
It should not have taken the VAR to notice that James Maddison had been cleaned out by the on-rushing goalkeeper Kaua Santos. No matter – when the spot-kick came this was a fist banged on the desk, Spurs at their pluckiest, a rare moment of bipartisan unity for Ange Outers and Inners alike.
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Poison swirled around this cauldron of a stadium and for all their attributes, Postecoglou’s Tottenham have not been known for their resilience. Still, the battering ram came, Guglielmo Vicario forced into a brilliant low one-handed save and Micky van de Ven retreating gallantly over his defence’s scorched earth.
This time there was no cupped ear to the fans, none of the prickly bravado of recent weeks on an occasion when the stakes were too agonisingly high. In the city’s bars, he even received a rendition of Loving Big Ange Instead. Sometimes the old ones are the best.
What is incontestable is that thousands of supporters descended on Germany knowing that giant silver pot of a Europa League trophy is not everything, but for one night it felt like it was.
They listened patiently before kick-off as 50,000 had belted out the metal anthem Wir ham’ noch lange nicht genug. We’re not done yet. Neither are Tottenham in Europe. And somehow, some way, neither is Postecoglou.
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