Seriously, where do you even start? It was a wild and eccentric night, full of drama and incident, and when the players of Tottenham Hotspur finally manage to catch their breath they can start looking forward to a Champions League semi-final. They had blown a gaping hole in Manchester City’s hopes of an unprecedented quadruple and, in the process, reached the last four of this competition for the first time. Their celebrations at the end were long and joyous.
That, however, tells only part of the story from a night when City led 1-0, trailed 2-1 and then went ahead 3-2, all in the opening 21 minutes, even before we get to the throbbing drama of a second half in which both teams scored again – decisively, as it turned out, for the Spurs substitute Fernando Llorente – and Pep Guardiola’s team had to endure the stoppage-time ordeal of believing Raheem Sterling had conjured up a late, dramatic winner.
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