SportsMoura Hat-Trick Sends Tottenham Into Champions League Final

Moura Hat-Trick Sends Tottenham Into Champions League Final

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 09, (THEWILL) – Lucas Moura scored a stoppage time winner to complete a hat-trick and seal a sensational 3-2 comeback win for Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday in Amsterdam.

The away win which gave them a 3-3 aggregate score line took them past Ajax Amsterdam on the away goals rule into the 2018/2019 UEFA Champions League final match of June 1.

Tottenham looked down and out at half-time after skipper Matthijs de Ligt’s fifth-minute header and a superb 35th minute effort by Hakim Ziyech put Ajax in complete command of the tie.

The Dutch side had won the first leg 1-0 in London last week.

But 24 hours after Liverpool’s miracle comeback to beat FC Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate, Tottenham produced their own heroics to reach their first European Cup final match.

The celebratory mood in the jam-packed Johan Cruyff Arena turned to one of nail-biting tension after Brazilian Moura scored twice in four minutes early in the second half.

The goals had put Spurs within a goal of going through.

Ziyech hit the post for Ajax who appeared to have weathered the storm, but Moura struck past Andre Onana to flatten the Ajax players and send the away fans into delirium.

Tottenham, playing in their first European Cup semi-final for 57 years, arrived in Amsterdam on a run of woeful form having suffered three successive defeats in all competitions.

Ajax, by contrast, were buoyant after winning the Dutch Cup final at the weekend, and they began on the front foot with a goal in less than 5 minutes of play.

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