Tottenham branded bottle jobs against Juventus as they crash out of Champions League despite taking lead at Wembley


TOTTENHAM have been slammed for another ‘bottle job’ performance after spectacularly crashing out of the Champions League to Juventus.

Spurs were favourites to progress to the quarter-finals after battling back for a 2-2 draw during the first leg in Turin.

Spurs have been branded bottle jobs for crashing out of Europe against Juventus
Spurs have been branded bottle jobs for crashing out of Europe against Juventus
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And things seemed to be on course after they look a 1-0 lead at Wembley thanks to Son Heung-Min.

However, Juventus failed to give up and came out battling in the second half with some clever substitutions from boss Max Allegri.

Gonzalo Higuain scored his third goal of the tie to get Juve back in the match before Paulo Dybala scored to put the Italians 2-1 up on the night and 4-3 ahead on aggregate.

Spurs saw a late header from Harry Kane roll across the goal line but ended up bidding farewell to the competition despite their first-half dominance.


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Best Champions League comebacks

Quarter-finals, 1999-2000

Chelsea 3 Barcelona 1

Barcelona 5 Chelsea 1

Quarter-finals, 2003-04

Milan 4 Deportivo 1

Deportivo 4 Milan 0

Quarter-finals, 2003-04

Real Madrid 4 Monaco 2

Monaco 3 Real Madrid 1

Last-16, 2011-12

Napoli 3 Chelsea 1

Chelsea 4 Napoli 1 AET

Last-16, 2012-13

Milan 2 Barcelona 0

Barcelona 4 Milan 0

Last-16, 2013-14

Olympiakos 2 Manchester United 0

Manchester United 3 Olympiakos 0

Quarter-finals, 2013-14

Paris Saint-Germain 3 Chelsea 1

Chelsea 2 Paris Saint-Germain 0

Quarter-finals, 2014-15

Porto 3 Bayern Munich 1

Bayern Munich 6 Porto 1

Quarter-finals, 2015-16

Wolfsburg 2 Real Madrid 0

Real Madrid 3 Wolfsburg 0

Last-16, 2016-17

Paris Saint-Germain 4 Barcelona 0

Barcelona 6 Paris Saint-Germain 1

And football fans were quick to criticise Tottenham for yet another capitulation, with one saying: “Classic Tottenham always bottle everything.”

Another wrote: “Spurs bottle it yet again. Pochettino HAS to win the FA Cup this season. He keeps getting called a great but how can you be when you’ve won 0 trophies?”


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One noted: “Spurs get all this mad praise for the football they play, yet they bottle it when it matters… again.”

A final tweet added: “Punters going on about this Spurs team and manager, you have to win something first, then you can be looked at, remind of me Newcastle with Keegan, pretty on the eye but never won a bowl of soup!”


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