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  • 5/8/2025
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00:00Tottenham have one foot in the final after last week's results but will tread carefully on this
00:08synthetic surface in the Arctic Circle after Ulrich Sotnes' late goal in London. Bode Glimp
00:14welcome back two key midfielders tonight who were both suspended last week, their captain Patrick
00:18Berg and Hakon Evienne, while Dominic Solanke secured a 1-0 win in Frankfurt in the second leg
00:24of the quarterfinal. Tottenham Hotspur as it stands 90 minutes away from what would be their sixth
00:32major European final. Bode Glimp hoping to make a fast start and it's Bjorkan sending it forward
00:45early touch of the ball for Jens Petterhauger on the fast side. So many teams on the continent find
00:51hard to deal with when the English teams are the absolute best. Sondra Fett gave them lots of great energy in that first game
00:58he's on the bench now but he was a big player for them before he was taken off.
01:01It'll lay off there
01:02by Hurt and that was Haugat racing forward. Corner Bode Glimp.
01:14Yeah just need one or two things to go their way in the opening minutes of this match.
01:17Get the crowd. Truly engaged. Corner or two. Shot on target. Test the goalkeeper.
01:29Need some reward for the possession that you have.
01:31Dangerous looking delivery. And Blomberg into the side netting.
01:36Moved all the way round the back. I don't think Brennan Johnson was supposed to go with him.
01:41Rushes out at the end. A little bit lucky. The Tottenham man that that shot is not on target.
01:46Yeah. Just rushed in the end. A shot from Blomberg.
01:52Just a little beyond Bissouma.
02:01And one merely finds touch.
02:04Ferdrick Sjövold with the throwing and under 21 international for Norway.
02:08Back into Gredemoe.
02:12Back in.
02:13Pressure from Dominic Solanke.
02:18Sounds odd to say but two goal leaders sometimes.
02:22Big moment. Midway through the first half.
02:24Pedro Porro sends it in.
02:32And Taikin tips it over the bar.
02:37That's a good stop. Up and over the wall.
02:39And dipping down underneath the crossbar.
02:42Yeah, that is a good save.
02:46Just leaning towards his left side.
02:48And you can do nothing about it if that ball is curling towards the post.
02:53That's a better save than I gave him credit for.
02:56Yeah, top save from Haikin.
03:00He's now looking to provide an equally good delivery.
03:04In the corner.
03:06It was a good one as well to the far post.
03:11Maybe something different.
03:12Shift to the edge of the box on the shot.
03:18Patrick Berg sends it in.
03:21Flapped away by Vicario behind for a corner.
03:25He's that ball again, yeah.
03:27Great free kick.
03:28Good goalkeeping.
03:29Because if he just ventures out another half a yard or so.
03:32Anticipating that it's a real cross.
03:34He's in big trouble.
03:35There's a warning sign.
03:36If you give any free kicks away.
03:37The more central area.
03:40This guy's a good technician.
03:43Here he is again.
03:44Patrick Berg sending it in.
03:46Hangs in the air.
03:47Gunderson getting up for it.
03:48Opportunity for Romero to clear.
03:57Calm under pressure.
03:58This is Bentancur.
04:00Towards Richarlison.
04:02Solanke able to collect.
04:08Well, they had him surrounded.
04:10Yeah.
04:11Nice and confident, doesn't he?
04:13A few of them being quite close to the Tottenham players.
04:16But everyone has found its mark so far.
04:21Seem to be growing in confidence.
04:23The home side.
04:23Along with this half way is on.
04:25A nine match on beaten streak at home.
04:32And certainly breeds confidence.
04:34Six wins, one loss at home in that time in Europa League.
04:43So they should be on this turf.
04:44Goal with Diedrich Blomberg into Evian.
04:51Now Berg.
04:51Worked wide by Bjorkan.
04:57Alba sends it across.
04:58Here's a chance for Hoop.
04:59Just didn't quite fall for him perhaps.
05:01Yeah, just that little movement forward.
05:06And then he had to check himself and then move backwards.
05:08The pace that was on the ball.
05:10Nothing wrong with it.
05:10But difficult to read just and then get back in.
05:13Wanted to get up.
05:14Yeah, that's sort of on the way down as the ball arrives at him.
05:17Yeah, it was about half a pace away from being the perfect delivery.
05:25A run by Mo.
05:29Spurs have it here with Kulissevski.
05:36Once more with the Swedish international.
05:39Vantankoer into Miki van der Ven who, like a number of Tottenham players,
05:43has missed far too much of the season through injury.
05:45Full concentration required now for the home side.
05:51Can't ill afford to concede a late first half goal.
05:53Pedro Porro to take it.
05:57Could be an opportunity here.
05:58Bissouma.
06:01Never looked comfortable.
06:03Certainly sat up nicely, didn't it?
06:06Yeah, on the weaker foot.
06:08Tottenham, as I said, increased control defensively.
06:11Largely.
06:13There goes the half-time whistle.
06:15Nothing in it in the opening 45 minutes.
06:18Tottenham managing for the most part to keep Bode glimpsed at arm's length.
06:22But he's not on the dot.
06:23Now he's ready and now we're underway.
06:28Tottenham kicking from left to right in the second half.
06:33That's with Kulissevski playing today in Sjobold.
06:37Who did OK against Richarlison has now got another really good player to try and keep an eye on with, Matisse Tell.
06:45Tottenham's 28 minutes to try to get back in this tie.
06:48Tottenham's 28 minutes to try to get back in this tie.
06:50Tottenham's 28 minutes to try to get back in this tie.
07:15Tottenham's 28 minutes to class.
07:20Got a pace on that ball back towards Nikita Hayekin.
07:29Let's tell them we'll take this corner, Jeffrey's saying, get them with it please.
07:44He's decided to take a little bit longer to just tee the ball up, Matisse Tell sending
07:49it across, Romero rising high, Tottenham have got the goal, they so badly needed, Dominic
07:56Solanke was there, and with just over an hour played, surely that's the goal that seals
08:02the deal to send Tottenham into the Europa League final in Bilbao.
08:081-0 on the night, 4-1 on aggregate, it's a long, long way back for Vodoglipz.
08:19Well, there's a captain's leap for you, Cristina Romero at the far post with a towering header,
08:25back into that danger area, down into the ground, yeah, and there's where strikers should
08:31be poaching for that opportunity, right in front of the goalkeeper, Solanke is...
08:36As Johnson leaves the field, well, it was he who set Tottenham on the road to semi-final
08:42success with his goal in the very first minute last week of the first leg, and Pat Matassar,
08:48the Senegalese midfielder on for what remains of this second leg, midway through the second
08:55half here.
08:56Yeah, no need taking chances of anybody who's perhaps just there feeling it after a long
09:02season, and he picked up a recent injury.
09:06Like I said earlier, lots of good players on the bench for Tottenham, and they'd be glad
09:10to get on the pitch as well, get themselves warmed up, chilly night here in northern Norway.
09:15Yes, one of those who played the full 90 minutes at the weekend, three-quarters of the way through
09:24this second leg.
09:30Tottenham with the three-goal advantage that they had until seven minutes before the end
09:37of the first leg, when Ulrich Selfness got that goal for Bodoglip, which just gave them
09:42that renewed hope, but just maybe, just maybe, they might be able to do something tonight.
09:51Here comes Frederik Sjöbald.
09:57Into Bjorka.
09:59Here's Hauga.
09:59That was away from Dayan Kulusevski, can't get it past Bissouma, who's quietly gone about
10:09his business well in midfield for Spurs tonight.
10:14This is Destiny Udogi.
10:18Into Saar.
10:23Toro.
10:25It's two.
10:26Pedro Toro for Tottenham Hotspur.
10:29That's the semi-final sorted.
10:34Spurs are heading to Bilbao, and their sixth European final.
10:40It's been a long, long journey for those fans in every sense of the word this season, not
10:45least tonight, to this northern outpost in Norway, but it was worth every kilometre, because
10:52they're seeing their team marching towards Spain and a European final.
10:59Well, I won.
11:02Tottenham heading for a sixth win against Norwegian opposition, maintaining their 100% record against
11:10teams from that country, barring an unexpected late comeback in this game.
11:16Late comeback, which, if it were to arrive, still wouldn't be enough.
11:21to take the Norwegian champions to the final.
11:27The teams who've gone further in the competition were sort of the best teams in the league phase,
11:34weren't they, as well, sort of the form book has played out.
11:37But Latio finished top, I think, in the club, Bilbao are in second, Man United third, Tottenham fourth, Frankfurt fifth, and Lyon sixth.
11:45So those sides remain the teams to beat getting into a knockout stage, so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised at that we are going to get the final.
11:56Which, of course, wasn't necessarily what we saw in the Champions League, with Paris Saint-Germain, among the lower qualifiers, they've sort of looked like they weren't going to make it at all.
12:05Yeah, they've come on in leaps about, haven't they, since last September.
12:13In Liverpool, we finished timing and went out early, didn't they, at the round of 16th, to the eventual finalist.
12:19This competition has been a little bit more predictable.
12:23The lads, Nielsen, here for Bode Glimt.
12:26As the clock ticks down, and Vicario, a bit of a finger stinger, a substitute.
12:35You can please have the word, the goalkeeper.
12:56Big night for Tottenham Hotspur, big night, big result for Ange Tostakovic.
13:01Set to lead them to that European final.
13:04We shouldn't forget, of course, that the, the winners of the Europa League will be in the Champions League next season.
13:10That is still very much a possibility for Spurs.
13:15Bode Glimt still working hard, the pass not quite reaching Helmussen.
13:19Bjorkan with a little attempted dink into the penalty area.
13:23Massive prize, isn't it? Champions League qualification.
13:25As the final few seconds of this Europa League semi-final play-out, and Patrick Berg sends it forward here.
13:33And still Bode Glimt are working hard, trying to get a goal, and are they going to have a penalty kick here?
13:38Right at the end of the game.
13:40That's the response from referee Mariani initially.
13:43I was looking for it.
13:46I'm not sure Pora made much contact at all, to be honest.
13:51Sondra Soli has gone to grab the opportunity to go down.
13:55Any contact here?
13:57Not from that angle.
13:59No.
14:00A quick look says no.
14:04Referee didn't need too long to reach that conclusion.
14:12No foul from Pedro Porro.
14:14No, clearly got the ball.
14:22Sondra Soli, the player, going to ground.
14:30Well, congratulations Spurs.
14:32It should be a great night in Spain in a couple of weeks' time.
14:35Whoever they play.
14:36There it is, the final whistle in Norway.
14:41And Tottenham Hotspur are through to the Europa League final.
14:45We'll see you next time.
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