Tottenham’s hopes of lifting the Europa League crown ended on a fractious night at Wembley. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg against Gent, the Belgian side held their nerve and drew 2-2 against the Premier League side.
Spurs needed to win by two clear goals and started the match well when Christian Eriksen gave the home side with the lead but they lost the lead when Harry Kane scored an unfortunate own goal.
Things got much worse for the London side when Dele Alli was rightly sent off for a horrendous tackle on Brecht Dejaegere in the 39th minute.
Tottenham still peppered the Gent goal with shots and took the lead again thanks to a strike from Victor Wanyama but that was as good as it got for Spurs. Jeremy Perbet scored the equaliser late in the second half and a disappointing European campaign came to an end for the London side.
Twitter went crazy thanks to the capitulation of Spurs against a side lying eighth in the Belgian league and here are the best reactions from the game.
Tottenham are amazing man, no matter how bad Arsenal are, they always live up to expectations and be worse than us, kudos to them
— Fouad (@FouadAFC) February 24, 2017
When the game was at 2-2…tottenham showed who they really are. No character and don’t blame 10 men disadvantage cause they dominated.
— I’m a Fighter✏ (@A_Luvine) February 24, 2017
Tottenham at Wembley: Match report pic.twitter.com/CveZo1MI6D
— Whitlock Academy (@WhitlockAcademy) February 24, 2017
In a time of freak outcomes (Leicester, Cubs, Brexit, Trump), it’s nice to see Tottenham bring back normalcy by consistently being shit.
— Dev Sharma (@selfrefute) February 24, 2017
Only Tottenham could get knocked out of Europe twice before Arsenal get knocked out once
— Mike Sanz (@mikesanz19) February 24, 2017
Difference between Tottenham fans and Arsenal where Europe is concerned is we know we are going out come March they think they’ll win it!
— Mark❗️ (@IllLeaveMyMark) February 24, 2017
Tottenham cant even win on a thursday lol
— Derek Young (@Podolskii94) February 24, 2017
Winning your 100th European game on @wembleystadium against Tottenham . It can’t get any better than this, no? #Ghentennial #COBW
— Michel De Wilde (@dewildemichel) February 23, 2017
Going to tweet this edit I made of Sissoko every day until he scores or leaves Tottenham to signify his contribution to the club. pic.twitter.com/GH4ac8dV9J
— Gareth‼ (@DierSituation) February 23, 2017
Quote of the day….
“whenever you are down, think of Tottenham, you will be the happiest person.”— Allegri… (@Rampant_Alexis) February 23, 2017
Wasps have more purpose in the world than Tottenham
— (@CalmaCosta) February 23, 2017
