Ajax 2-3 Tottenham is part
So...where to start? Maybe a bit of context? Yeah, I think we'd all appreciate it. Anything involving Tottenham usually needs to be explained at length. As a football club, they don't make any sense.
Ajax had emerged as one of the best teams in Europe during the 2018/19 season, providing some entertaining displays in the Eredivisie, which they would eventually win, and showed they weren't in the Champions League to make up the numbers with a few classic encounters with Bayern Munich in the group stage.
They stunned Real Madrid in the last 16, winning 5-3 on aggregate following a smashing 4-1 triumph at the Bernabeu, before producing a smash and grab performance Juventus would be proud of in the quarter finals against...Juventus.

Tottenham, by quite a stark contrast, performed weirdly in 2018/19. After a strong first half of the campaign, the wheels quickly fell off domestically, the squad was crippled by injuries and looked knackered.
So when the two teams were paired up in the Champions League semi finals, the Dutch side were favourites. And the gap in quality was clear for all to see in the first leg in north London.
Ajax's midfield three of Frenkie de Jong, Lasse Schone and Donny van de Beek made their Tottenham counterparts - Victor Wanyama, Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen - look like amateurs in what was a horrifically lopsided opening 35 minutes, the visitors scoring a crucial away goal when Van de Beek was given the freedom of Enfield to fire past Hugo Lloris.
Spurs eventually began to assert themselves with the introduction of Moussa Sissoko, but they couldn't bring themselves level and knew only a win in Amsterdam would do.
As you can probably remember, things didn't start off too well for Spurs.

Matthijs de Ligt, Ajax's man-child captain, charged away from Kieran Trippier, who was inexplicably marking the home side's biggest aerial threat, to rise higher than Dele Alli and glance his header into the far corner, past Lloris.
Barely five minutes in, and it seems like it's game over already.
Tottenham start to show their teeth a little more, Son Heung-min - so often their hero during the UCL campaign - getting in down the left before sending a shot from an acute angle against the post. Half chances that need to go in for Spurs aren't going in.
35 minutes in, Hakim Ziyech walks on to a Dusan Tadic lay-off and smacks a shot past Lloris in glorious fashion.

That truly is game over.
There's no conceivable version of events after that goal that could allow Tottenham to progress ahead of their Dutch opponents. Frankly, it would be undeserved.
But the 2018/19 Champions League wasn't particularly sober. As Tottenham fans can attest to, most of their results looked like they had been plucked out of the air by some wino sat outside a Spoons at three in the morning.
A 1-1 draw at Camp Nou while relying on Inter to slip up against PSV Eindhoven? Weird.




But even in that moment, you could be nothing but proud, as a fan of Tottenham. They were done and dusted in the group stage. They had seen off a Bundesliga title challenger with ridiculous ease in the last 16. They came back to life again and again at the Etihad in the quarter finals. The group had given everything in pursuit of one goal, and the final chapter in Tottenham's Champions League campaign of 2018/19 seemed to have been written.
Daley Sinkgraven broke away down the right, teeing up Ziyech, who danced away from Toby Alderweireld before hammering a shot at Lloris, who beats it away before Tadic curls high and wide.
The 95th minute.
Son goes back to Sissoko.
The ball is hoofed up field.
Llorente, grappling with De Ligt, flicks into Alli.
He prods it round the corner to Moura.
Snap-shot.

Goal.
Manager Mauricio Pochettino charges on to the pitch, embraced by Victor Wanyama, Eric Dier, Ben Davies and Jesus Perez. The boss collapses to the floor, in tears, holding his head.
Ajax players are crumpled and left inconsolable, knowing they had a foot in the Champions League final and, in the nicest possible way, blew it.
Play restarts, and eventually Sissoko makes his way to a corner flag.
The full-time whistle. Harry Kane's charged on to the pitch. No one can make head or toe of what's just happened.
Lucas Moura, now a Tottenham icon, can't contain his emotion, and neither can Pochettino. A first ever Champions League final for Tottenham, and probably their last for a long, long time, judging by how things are going at present.
9 May 2019. Better than

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