Tottenham Hotspur have won this season’s Europa League after beating Manchester United in Wednesday night’s all-English final at San Mames in Bilbao.
It was a drab final for large parts of the 90 minutes, without much of the way of attacking intent from either side, but Spurs took the lead in the closing stages of the first half in fortuitous circumstances.
Brennan Johnson didn’t get clean contact on Pape Sarr’s cross, but the movement of his run caused enough confusion that the ball ended up deflecting off Luke Shaw’s arm and back into the Tottenham forward’s path to scrape his studs at it as it crossed the line.
