Angel Postcoglou had abandoned the gods of football and he never had a lot of affection for Var.
The Tottenham boss fully and hard on technology and bad fortune in a season where few things happened.
But they finally plotted in his favor in Germany to revive the dream that his second season could still end with a trophy.
The Spurs seized the initiative in the first half of this quarter -final of the Europa League via a penalty grants after a Var intervention when the goalkeeper of Francfurt Eintracht, Kaua Santos Poleax, James Maddison.
And converted by Dominic Solanke, holding his nerve to score his first goal for 103 days.
Then, his team produced an exceptional defensive display to protect their advance and was lucky when Rasmus Kristensen pulled the best of late chances in the closing stages.
Dominic Solanke holds his nerve to convert the penalty that puts Tottenham in the semi-finals
This is Solanke’s first goal for 103 days and maintains Tottenham’s season very alive
Things are improving for the boss of the postocoglou angel spurs while a Var call is finally going
And, after all that they endured for a desperate winter, the Spurs entered in the European semi-finals and the celebrations were euphoric.
Tottenham had been warned that the Deutsche Bank park would look like a lion ‘`’ ‘and that passionate fans of Eintracht Frankfurt did not disappoint, whipping a formidable pre-match atmosphere and exceeding a tifo display developed at one end to greet the teams.
“The Eagles are on the hike” was the message through the stand, with a huge banner starring an image of Eagles carrying all the trophies won by the club and surrounding the Europa League.
They were victorious in 2022, beating West Ham on the way and the Rangers in the final on penalties and they hoped that the hostile atmosphere would give their team an advantage on the field.
Eintracht, happy to play on the counterattack during the first leg, fired 1-1 in London last week, came out with more purposes and adventure, but the Spurs absorbed the early pressure.
Guglielmo Vicario looked at to collect a few long -range shots, sparkling on a smooth surface. They were directly on him, although, after his nervous opening to 4-2 defeat in Wolverhampton on Sunday, the goalkeeper would have been relieved to recover them safely.
Postcoglou made five changes to the battered team to Molinine, bringing those back outside the son of Captain Heung-Min, has always excluded with an injured foot.
Micky Van De Ven was in central defense alongside Cristian Romero and an explosion of acceleration from the Tottenham Dutch Flying was to thwart Hugo Ekitike when he was clearly running on a long ball.
Tottenham was given when Frankfurt Kaua Santo goalkeeper shattered James Maddison
After a Var check, the Polish referee Szymon Marciniak points the spot to the joy of the Spurs
The Rasmus Kristen de Francfurt deplores a late chance to send the tie to more time
Van de Ven gave at the start of the international under 21 in France, then recovered in time, slipping into Vicario while he clarified the danger.
Eintracht lost the veteran Mario Gotze in the first half. Gotze was drinking by what seemed to be a problem with the hamstrings and its Chaibi replacement prices quickly tested Vicario with a header.
Mathys Tel Tel recorded the first two efforts of the night for the Spurs, on each side of the Chaibi header. First of all, an erroneous shot dragged largely from a low cross by Brennan Johnson.
Then a sweet strike with its right foot, deriving from the left and forcing the goalkeepers Kaua Santos in a flying rescue. Santos had been the hero of the first stage for the Germans, but his bad judgment led to the penalty whose Spurs took the lead.
James Maddison was the first to be a long pass forward by Romero, who came out of the midfielder and directed the ball before being flattened by the goalkeeper.
Despite the weight of the heavy collision, which left Maddison needing a fairly long treatment spell, Italian referee Davide Massa needed the help of his Var who sent him to the instructor.
Massa underlined the place on his return in the middle, showed Santos a yellow card and Solanke advanced to take the penalty and scored for the first time in 12 games.
Maddison tried to continue but left before the interval, replaced by Dejan Kulusvski.
Pedro Porro shows how the victory means Tottenham after a difficult season
Passionate fans of Eintracht Francfurt provided a hostile atmosphere in the Deutsche Bank park
Tottenham’s concentration and discipline were tested in the second half. They were forced and took little risk with Uus on Eintracht to race.
Postcoglou has refined his midfielder to sit Lucas Bergvall alongside Rodri Bentancur and protect the four rear and they broke with sparing.
While the chronometer co -coated, he sent Pope Matar Sarr to patrol the midfield and strengthened the defense with Kevin Danso.
Chaibi got closer to a free kick, curled up, but Vicario was well protected by those in front of him and the spurs were likely to extend their lead.
Romero and Bentancur were both widely led in the corners and such has penetrated another wide shot.
Vicario made a splendid backup of Chaibi before Kristensen wasted the best chances of scoring a late equalizer and Tottenham fans were deposited in the rain while singing to go to the Bilbao final.
