Spurs -Baas Ange Postecoglou is justified with Scrappy Europa League Final victory over Man Utd in Bilbao to seal a £ 100 million Champions League place for next season
Ange Postecoglou proved that he was not a clown by Tottenham in Leiden to their first trophy for 17 years about the circus that Manchester United is.
On the eve of the game, the Spurs -Baas Umbrage took the image of him as a figure of pleasure – but had the last smile by limiting this victory.
Postecoglou invited Spot at the start of the campaign by stating that he always wins a trophy in his second season. But that proud bragging was justified on a historic night in Bilbao.
Despite the leading of traces for a memorable triumph and a coveted place in the Champions League, Postecoglou is still confronted with the bag after a regrettable domestic season.
But if Postecoglou leaves, it will be with his head high, his bruised reputation restored by this triumph, despite such a shocking Premier League campaign, which Spurs has lost 21 times.
For Captain Son Heung-Min, not fit enough to start with, but he came up and cherished in the glory at the last whistle, a first trophy was a suitable reward for a decade of loyal service on the cause of the tracks.
For United, who did not appear in the San Mames Stadium, there will be no European football next season for the second time in 35 years.
Ruben Amorim's side arrived in Bilbao as the only unbeaten side in the big European competition this season, but that proud run came to a glorious end.
When United was always confronted under Sir Alex Ferguson, his team conversations were famous “Boys, it's Tottenham”, the conclusion is that it would be a walk in the park.
But it is United who is now cast in the role of pushovers, the fallen giants have hit a new low point in a season of non -repellent unrest on and next to the field.
For a European final – one with a Champions League place for the winners – to be disputed by two such bad sides, little did for the prestige of the competition. Appropriate, for two parties that rink around the foot of the Premier League, this showpiece event was desperately short of quality.
With so much at stake for both teams and for a meeting between parties in the 16th and 17th position in the Premier League, there was predictably little electricity or fluent for the game.
The opening goal, when it came in the 42nd minute, was suitable ugly. Luke Shaw allowed Brennan Johnson to come for him, the ball that turned the United Defender and past the unfortunate Andre Onana.
The fans of Tottenham broke out in euphory when Johnson walked away in the celebration, the players from United left to focus another match in which they first admitted – the 31st time this season.
With Spurs content to lean back and protect their lead, the responsibility was to United to get back into the game. But they never looked like fulfilling that assignment. Amorim's silk continued to work, the United Boss cuts an increasingly frustrated and animated figure.
United seemed to be leveled in the 68th minute when Hojlund sent a looper goal with Guglielmo Vicario, but Micky Van de Ven produced a remarkable last handle of the line.
Amorim applied Alejandro Garnacho and Joshua Zirkzee, the first forced a vicario's salvation in the 74th minute, the Spurs keeper saved from Shaw again in the 96th minute.
But in the end it was too little, too late for United, while Spurs and Postecoglou maintain to secure a deserved triumph.