(AFP) - Tottenham Hotspur and Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany, booked their Group D tickets to the final price of the Champions League , after winning the same result 2-1 over the hosts Marseille of France and Sporting of Portugal, respectively, in the sixth and final round.
The possibilities were wide open in this group with the entry into the last round, and Tottenham settled its lead with the goal of a late victory, with 11 points against Frankfurt (10), while Sporting got third place (7), which qualifies it to enter the qualifying roundabout to the final price of the European League "Europa". Ligue”, while Marseille came out empty-handed in last place (6).
In Marseille, the hosts advanced through the Congolese Chancelle Mbemba (45 + 2), while the French Clement Langley equalized for the guests (54).
While the match was heading towards Spurs finishing the group in the runner-up behind Frankfurt and Marseille to the “Europa League” supplement, Danish Pierre-Emile Hoyberg snatched the winning goal and lead for Tottenham in stoppage time (90 + 5), to completely end the continental campaign for the French team.
In Lisbon, the hosts advanced through Brazilian Arthur Gomez (39), but the Europa League champion last season won with the goals of Japanese Daichi Kamada (62 from a penalty kick) and Frenchman Randall Kolo Mwani (72).
Italian coach Antonio Conte was absent from the Tottenham bench after he was sent off in the previous match during the 1-1 draw with Sporting after the referee canceled a controversial goal by Harry Kane in the last minutes for offside that would have qualified Spurs to the next round before a round of the end.
Spurs suffered a setback in the first half, after South Korean Son Heung-min was hit in the head by a collision with Pemba, and he was eliminated from the match (29).
Spurs made two changes to the squad that drew in the previous match with Sporting, involving Ryan Sessegnon instead of the Irishman Matt Doherty, while Langley participated in the defense instead of the injured Argentine Christian Romero.
As for the Croatian coach, Igor Tudor, he made one change to the squad that fell in front of Frankfurt, involving Eric Baye instead of Samuel Jego, but the Ivory Coast, loaned from English Manchester United, went out injured in the tenth minute, so the Frenchman entered in his place.
Marseille pressed from the first minutes and threatened with a low header by Chilean Alexis Sanchez, which passed by the post after a cross from Moroccan Amine Harith (3).
The southern team continued its pressure, and Sanchez, who knows Tottenham well after playing for years in England with Arsenal and Manchester United, hit the first shot on goal from inside the area, which was turned away by French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to a corner (19).
Spurs suffered a setback when Son left after a collision with Mbemba, to replace him with Ivory Coast's Eve Bisuma (29).
The owners of the land continued to dominate, and then Jordan Furuto had an opportunity when he tamed a ball and hit it wonderfully with his left from the left side of the area, Lloris pushed it to a corner (33).
Marseille got what it wanted with a wonderful goal, when Furuto raised a far cross from near the place of the corner towards the post, and Mbemba rose to it high, followed by a header into the net (45 + 2).
Tottenham waited until the eighth minute of stoppage time to hit the goal for the first time through Kane, which was blocked by Spanish goalkeeper Pau Lopes with his fingers to a corner.
In the second half, Spurs pushed Brazilian Emison Royal instead of Sesinwen, and the London team looked better and opened the scoring with Langley's header after a free kick by Croatian Ivan Perisic.
Harith had an opportunity to re-advance when he hit a powerful ball centimeters above the crossbar (59).
Bosnian Sayed Kolasinac wasted a golden opportunity to give Marseille the crossing card when the ball reached him from a cross towards the second post while he was in a favorable place, followed by his head next to the post (87).
And when the Marseille players were ahead in search of the goal, Tottenham responded with a counterattack, after which Hoiberg scored the goal of confirming qualification with a shot from inside the area (90 + 5).