• Tottenham.Mourinho and the management of decline

Leipzig gave no option to Tottenham, current European runner-up, against which he won in his stadium in the round of 16 of the Champions League, so he qualified for the first time in the quarterfinals, having won 1-0 in the first leg . [3-0: Narration and statistics]

Far superior, Leipzig made things clear with two goals from his captain, Austrian Marcel Sabitzer (10 and 22), who made the tie impossible for the Jose Mourinho Spurs. In the final stretch Emil Forsberg, who had just entered by the double scorer, made the final 3-0 (87).

The Portuguese coach, 57 years old and winner of the Champions League in 2004 with Porto and in 2010 with Inter, lost the generational battle with the bench prodigy Julian Nagelsmann , in the quarterfinals of the Champions at 32.

In the first two goals Leipzig took advantage of the defensive ineffectiveness of Tottenham. In the first, after a shot by Timo Werner , the German international himself gave in to Sabitzer, who hit with a cross shot that folded the hands of goalkeeper Hugo Lloris. After a goal canceled by Werner, Leipzig continued his festival and won the second.

In a game change the Ivorian Serge Aurier did not succeed in clearing his head and Angeliño, a dagger on the left, served to make Sabitzer appear in the first suit and score head against a Lloris again too soft. It was his fourth in the current Champions.

The game went to the locker room with Tottenham in need of a miracle, three goals, to return to the quarterfinals. But without his captain and offensive leader Harry Kane, nor the Korean explosive Son Heung-min, he didn't even have clear chances.

Even Leipzig had time to achieve the third, in a shot inside the Forsberg area after a center of the tireless Angeliño.

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