What happened to Tottenham XI from Ajax miracle with just one still there
FIVE years ago to the day, Tottenham booked their place in the Champions League final with one of the most dramatic, incredible comebacks in football history.
Mauricio Pochettino's men had trudged off the pitch at half-time in Amsterdam seemingly dead and buried.
Trailing Ajax 2-0 on the night and 3-0 on aggregate, the obituaries of an already astonishing European campaign were starting to be written.
Spurs had recovered from picking up just one point from the opening three group games to squeak through courtesy of a late 1-1 draw at Barcelona.
Then they had trounced German giants Borussia Dortmund in the quarter-finals before taking out Pep Guardiola's Manchester City with the sort of late drama at the Etihad that had the Spaniard sinking to his knees.
Just when it appeared Tottenham had run out of miracles, that night in Amsterdam came along.
Without the injured Harry Kane, who spent the night watching on from the stands sat alongside Davinson Sanchez, it was Lucas Moura who completed Spurs' attacking quartet alongside Son Heung-min, Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen.
The Brazilian had already played a huge role in Spurs' campaign, having been the man that scored the crucial goal in Barcelona, and he added further efforts in the 55th and 59th minutes of the semi-final second leg to drag his side back into the contest.
As the remaining minutes ticked away it appeared that Tottenham's suddenly renewed chance was fading, that it would be another glorious failure.
In the final seconds of the five minutes added on, Moussa Sissoko punted the ball forward from his own half. Fernando Llorente made a nuisance of himself, and the ball fell to Dele.
Tottenham's No20 expertly flicked the ball into the path of Moura, who with a stroke of his
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