Above all though, the newspaper said, the win was a triumph for Coach Massimiliano Allegri who “guessed the moves without complaining about absences”.
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“It’s the history of Tottenham”, he told BT Sport.
But two goals in three minutes suggested it could be same old story for them, with the FA Cup now their only chance of a trophy. “First and foremost, we’re really happy that we won and made it through to the last eight”, Allegri was quoted as saying.
“Tottenham are on the verge of being able to win this type of game”.
“Moving forward, I think if you look at the players, pound-for-pound, I would have Tottenham’s squad all day over Juventus’ squad – but they just know how to get the job done”.
Spurs were on course for the quarter-finals after the South Korean’s first-half goal put them 1-0 up on the night and 3-2 ahead on aggregate against Juventus. Harry Kane broke past Chiellini and rounded Buffon only to hit the side netting, while Son skewed a shot wide of the post before finding the breakthrough in the 39th minute.
Pochettino refused to blame the inexperience of his players at the highest tier of European football.
We use cookies to give you the best experience on our website and bring you more relevant advertising. We had a lot of chances and only scored one. We dominated. Overall in two games we were much better.
Tottenham, meanwhile, were playing in the Champions League knockout stage for only the second time in the current format, and Chiellini said Juventus played into their opponents’ inexperience in big matches.
“I think we’ve had some great moments at Wembley in the Champions League this season and the only thing I can say is that we’re going to keep working and believing in ourselves to be back, hopefully, in the Champions League next season in our new stadium”. It’s very hard. We are doing our best because we have to think about the game.about the opponent. “We had created chances in the first half, so we were confident we could get one goal back and kick on from there”.
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“We believed in the win”, the Italian said. We did suffer a lot but that’s normal in football. They can achieve far more in the coming years, it was just unfortunate they were drawn against such a savvy team in Juventus in the last 16.
