Spurs & Milan will both have all to play for in the second leg of their Champions League tie, but that doesn't mean that either of them will win it this year. twoht
Spurs & Milan will both have all to play for in the second leg of their Champions League tie, but that doesn’t mean that either of them will win it this year.To be absolutely clear, the week and a half immediately prior to their Champions League match with AC Milan was a point of Peak Spurs in a season during which they’ve been out-Spursing themselves with increasing regularity.
Milan went into the game in the same position – fifth – in Serie A that Spurs, were in the Premier League, but their season has been somewhat different. The San Siro – okay, the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza – is soon to be torn down, but while it remains a daunting venue to visit, this Milan team is nowhere near the calibre that most amongst us of the middle-aged dad persuasion will recall from Football Italia in the 1990s. For all of Spurs’ Spursiness, their opponent’s form suggested a potential vulnerability that made a tie against the current Italian champions to be a somewhat more winnable tie than we might ordinarily expect.
Even the moments that mattered felt a little as though they’d been formed with artistic direction from Jackson Pollock. With a little over ten minutes to play Milan had two golden opportunities to make Spurs’ job considerably more difficult in the second leg, but both Charles When the delivery line to Harry Kane, Heung Min Son and Richarlison isn’t flowing, and it certainly wasn’t in this game, Spurs look like little more than a collection of paper tigers.Pape Sarr was making his Champions League debut, and was an assured presence in midfield.
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