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Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Champions League - qtr. 2nd leg

Match Prediction

  • Spurs to go through to Semis

    Votes: 61 25.1%
  • Man City to go through to the Semis

    Votes: 43 17.7%
  • Spurs to the semis by away goal rule

    Votes: 83 34.2%
  • Spurs to the semis by penalites

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Man City to the semis by outright win

    Votes: 51 21.0%
  • Man City to the semis by penalties

    Votes: 4 1.6%

  • Total voters
    243
  • Poll closed .

bubble07

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Dec 27, 2004
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Sad to admit but everytime I see that I get goosebumps

Its the biggest low to high moment I've had in football in short space
 

Pochemon94

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Aug 6, 2019
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Sad to admit but everytime I see that I get goosebumps

Its the biggest low to high moment I've had in football in short space

I took the day off from work and went to the bar with some tottenham fans (KO was 12:15 in Los Angeles) was surrounded by Man City fans. They all ran into our faces after it and let me tell you I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in anyones face before in my life. My god I was feeling almost high at that point.
 

C0YS

Just another member
Jul 9, 2007
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Ajax was magical for all kind of reasons. But this is the most glorious stomach wrenching bottle of nerves and best game I've ever watched.
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Coyboy

The Double of 1961 is still The Double
Dec 3, 2004
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5,032
Ajax was magical for all kind of reasons. But this is the most glorious stomach wrenching bottle of nerves and best game I've ever watched.
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Yeah Ajax was all positive other than the first half and an amazing experience personally being in Amsterdam. But City was the most mentally exhausting game I’ve ever watched.
 

glacierSpurs

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Sep 28, 2013
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I remembered I was watching it and told myself to calm down, that was nothing unusual for Spurs, it's alright........

............. then YES! I knew we will always win that!
 

PerScoutDenmark

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Aug 8, 2019
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I smashed my iPhone against a wall in the local pub when Sterling scored that winner. The screen cracked into a thousand pieces. Only to realize, 2 minutes and a VAR decision later, that it was all in vain.

One of the greatest nights as a Spurs-supporter, which was almost immediately exceeded by that second leg against Ajax. Good times ❤
 

C0YS

Just another member
Jul 9, 2007
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The game is available on the UEFA website and I rewatched it. Was very strange to watch it without the emotion.

There were lots of things I didn't remember. The game was crazy, disorganised and neither team managed to ever get into any kind of rhythm. In my head we were really holding on at points, but while Man City did create chances they weren't particularly fluent and the game was very scrappy really.

A thing I really didn't remember was how we essentially played most of the match with a midfield of Wanyama and Dele. Our injuries were really bad! Sissoko's injury changed the game. Before his injury the game was super open. When Sissoko got injured we changed from a 4-2-3-1 into a 4-4-1-1 with Eriksen and Son dropping into a flat 4. So we played with two banks of four, in part I imagine to support the vulnerable central midfield and in part to give some order to our team. And after that we attacked less but also had more control of the game and stopped the flow of attacks.

After resisting well after conceding we started attacking again, and we caused them some damage at 4-2 and our goal was coming, and similarly they weren't really knocking on the door as much as I remember in those last few minutes. In fact if it wasn't for eriksen losing his head I think we saw out the last 20 minutes really well.

Poch really did adapt really well to the game at hand, and the end result was, what I felt, a really fair reflection of a crazy game in which neither side actually played to their full potential. In fact the Ajax game was played at a much higher level than this one.

Ajax was emotionally a much simpler game. We were up against it, basically already out trying to, somehow, climb a mountain. This was just twist and turns and way more unpredictable. I didn't need a paramedic during the Ajax game, the man city one was incredibly unpleasent but gripping. At some points, I just did not want to watch the game. I'd even left the pub only to watch it peering in from the outside, before I picked up the courage to come back in and just take the ordeal.
 

Stamford

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Sep 15, 2015
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This was special but that day and night in Amsterdam was the biggest high of supporting Spurs
 

BigVic

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Jul 16, 2015
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2,754
Sad to admit but everytime I see that I get goosebumps

Its the biggest low to high moment I've had in football in short space
100%. From wanting to throw myself off a cliff, to pure ecstasy in a matter of seconds.
 

Gbspurs

Gatekeeper for debates, King of the plonkers
Jan 27, 2011
26,946
61,825
This was a tough match to watch. Going in 1 nil up I felt nervous from the start and thought we would throw it away so conceding early didn't surprise me, although it did enrage me!

I spent large parts of the match in a state of apathy which is odd, probably a disadvantage of watching from home but I didn't celebrate Son's first or Llorente's goals as I just thought we would throw it away. I suppose years of seeing us fail has built up this reaction in me.

I spent the last 10 mins saying to my wife "there is no point as we will concede in the last minute anyway" so when Sterling scored "the winner" I reacted with what I assumed was justifiable rage. I didn't even see the VAR overturn the decision so when I composed myself it took a few moments to understand what was going on.

At full time I felt spent. No energy and I just slumped in a state of disbelief and shock which looking back is a shame as I feel my own stress cost me a well deserved celebration although I made up for this against Ajax.

To not win the final and the nature of our defeat is still devastating and I'm quite confident I will never watch the final back but I can look back on this and the Ajax match fondly now without the memory being tarnished from what was to follow.
 

buckley

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Sep 15, 2012
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it is sad that the younger fans only have " nearly " matches to watch . Except for the 1901 /1921 fa cup wins I have witnessed every trophy we have won so I have something tangible to remember . Having said that the game is " about glory " and that Ajax game is a match that will stay in the mind of every spurs fan . I cannot recall all the finals we have been in because some were quite forgettable but for me its certain matches I remember just to confirm "the game is about glory '
In the semi final of the cup 1953 losing in the semi final to Blackpool with 10 men as Baily was a passenger on the wing great match .
!958 10 v2 against Everton . 13 v 2 against Crewe . Gornik / Rangers 5 v 2 cup winners cup / Arsenal semi final / Inter Milan and bale
Milan and Steve Perryman as I say its the individual great matches I remember not so much the trophy wins .
" the game is about glory '
 

Bobbins

SC's 14th Sexiest Male 2008
May 5, 2005
21,548
45,031
Everything I predicted to happen in that game happened. Everything apart from one thing.

I assumed it would be the usual Spurs cup nonsense, we go in with a lead/start well, then eventually go behind, equalise only to lose it in the last second to a dodgy goal that should never have been allowed. So as soon as Sterling scored, my whole family just groaned, because we absolutely knew that was going to happen. It was guaranteed.

And yet... VAR. I went crazy when it got disallowed - my dad originally thought VAR was a terrible idea and the Rose handball penalty only reinforced his view. I had already been saying as one of the clubs who historically has been most screwed over by blindingly obvious terrible refereeing decisions (Carroll, Terry et al), VAR should provide us with protection from that at last.

And I was right! I was vindicated! VAR finally stopped us from being screwed over, finally stopped us from being the unluckiest team in the league, finally made sure things were fair and just after all these years!

And then the Sissoko handball penalty fucked all that within 3 minutes of the final starting.
 

stormfly

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Dec 6, 2006
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When Man City scored that goal I just fell to my knees, slumped over and just kept saying, “every time, every time why do you always do this to me?” I was a broken man.
 
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