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Moura hat-trick powers Spurs into Champions League final

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Updated: May 9th, 2019, 09:09 IST
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Lucas Moura (R) and Dele Alli of Tottenham Hotspur celebrate after the former’s third goal against Ajax Amsterdam, Wednesday in the Champions League semifinal

Lucas Moura (R) and Dele Alli of Tottenham Hotspur celebrate after the former’s third goal against Ajax Amsterdam, Wednesday in the Champions League semifinal

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Amsterdam: Lucas Moura conjured the second Champions League miracle in 24 hours Wednesday with a last-gasp winner to complete his hat-trick and a 3-2 win to send Tottenham Hotspur past a shattered Ajax Amsterdam into the final on away goals.

A day after Liverpool beat Barcelona 4-0 to overturn a 0-3 first-leg deficit, Tottenham came back from the dead after Ajax had looked certain to reach their first final for 23 years.

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Ajax skipper Matthijs de Ligt’s fifth-minute header and a superb 35th minute effort by Hakim Ziyech put Ajax 3-0 ahead on aggregate by half time at a raucous Johan Cruyff Arena.

But Tottenham were transformed after the break as they became the eighth English club to reach the European Cup final, where they will face Liverpool in Madrid, June 1.

With veteran Spanish striker Fernando Llorente on as a second half substitute, Tottenham refused to lay down and when Moura scored in the 55th minute the impossible began to seem possible for the north London club.

Four minutes later he fired through a crowd to equalise on the night and after both sides hit the woodwork in the heart-pumping finale, Moura drilled into the corner in the sixth minute of added on time to leave Ajax crestfallen.

“Football gives us moments we can’t imagine,” Moura, who scored the goal in Barcelona in the final group game to keep Tottenham alive in the competition, said. The only other time the Spurs had reached the semifinal in this European competition was 57 years ago.

The success and their improbable victory left the away fans in a state of delirium and Argentine manager Mauricio Pochettino in tears at the end.

“The emotion is amazing, thank you to football,” Pochettino said. “My players are heroes – in the last year I was telling everyone in this group are heroes. They are all heroes but Lucas Moura was a superhero.”

Ajax got off to a dream start as captain De Ligt took advantage of poor marking to head past Hugo Lloris. The visitors responded in spirited fashion with Son Heung-min deceiving keeper Onana with a cross that hit the post.

But Ajax were cool, calm and collected and bided their time before striking again in devastating fashion. Tadic, who moments earlier had dragged a shot just wide, was released down the left and he cut the ball back perfectly for Ziyech to whip a left-footed shot inside the far post.

However, things changed when Llorente came on for Victor Wanyama. The Spurs went for the direct approach after the break and Ajax were rattled.

Moura converted in the 55th minute, sliding home after running on to Dele Alli’s pass and four minutes later, after Onana had made a remarkable save to dent Llorente, the Brazilian showed great footwork to thread a shot through a crowd.

It set up a rip-roaring finale with Tottenham pressing for the winning goal and Ajax looking to counter-attack.

Ziyech shot against the post, then Tottenham’s former Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen headed against the crossbar with the goal gaping before Lloris’s save kept Spurs alive.

Lloris went up for a corner in stoppage time but it was Moura who proved Tottenham’s hero, producing a clinical finish from Alli’s flick.

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