Soccer followers will endlessly cherish the extraordinary jubilation that comes with their crew scoring a late profitable objective.
The celebrations are heightened even additional once they come away from dwelling, with Tottenham big beneficiaries of this in Might 2010.
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Spurs travelled to Manchester Metropolis for his or her penultimate fixture of the 2009/10 Premier League season with an enormous prize up for grabs.
Champions League qualification for the primary time in every of the golf equipment’ historical past was on the road through the conflict on the Etihad Stadium.
Metropolis, who noticed the completion of their £200million takeover by Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi United Group the season prior, had been favourites.
Nonetheless, it was their guests from north London who stole all three factors and did so in dramatic trend due to Peter Crouch.
Younes Kaboul received the higher of Craig Bellamy down the appropriate flank and noticed his cross deflect off Wayne Bridge in direction of Marton Fulop.
The goalkeeper may solely parry it away and it fell into the trail of Spurs striker Crouch, who headed in from contained in the six-yard field.
Crouch struck within the 82nd minute of the match and instantly ran to the visiting followers behind the objective who had been celebrating wildly.
Though it was removed from probably the most glamorous of all his 108 Premier League targets, it was arguably a very powerful of his profession.
Crouch’s header was dubbed because the ‘£15million objective’ given the hailed monetary riches that include qualifying for the Champions League.
It additionally sparked an iconic second as David Bentley and a few of his teammates threw a bucket of ice over supervisor Harry Redknapp throughout a post-match interview.
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Spurs beforehand performed simply as soon as within the European Cup within the 1961/62 season once they misplaced 4-3 on mixture to Benfica within the semi-finals.
The north London aspect had by no means featured in UEFA’s top-tier membership competitors after it adopted its present identify in 1992.
A 6-3 mixture play-off spherical win over Younger Boys allowed Redknapp’s aspect to succeed in the group levels within the 2010/11 season.
They topped Group A forward of reigning champions Inter Milan, FC Twente and Werder Bremen, however Actual Madrid knocked them out on the quarter-finals stage.
Crouch scored 4 targets of their European marketing campaign earlier than leaving on the finish of the season to signal for Stoke Metropolis.
Spurs needed to wait till 2016 to play Champions League soccer once more after they completed third within the Premier League.
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They even reached the ultimate for the primary time ever in 2019 however misplaced 2-0 to Liverpool and have didn’t progress previous the final 16 since then.
Metropolis would have been gutted with the defeat to Spurs on Might 5 2010 as victory would have put qualification of their fingers on the ultimate day.
Nonetheless, they’d make their debut within the competitors only a yr later courtesy of a third-place end within the league.
They’ve performed Champions League soccer in each season that has adopted, first reaching the ultimate in 2021 however dropping to Chelsea 1-0.
Pep Guardiola, who has simply prolonged his contract on the membership, helped to ship their first title in 2023 with a 1-0 victory in opposition to Inter.
Metropolis host Spurs once more on Saturday night, with each heading into the match off the again of defeats of their final Premier League fixtures.