Amid the touches of farce, there was a touch of class. On a night when others kept inadvertently finding opponents, Antoine Griezmann produced an exquisite flick to release Julian Alvarez and send him speeding through a hole where the Tottenham defence was supposed to be to score.
That was the last round of the Champions League. The quarter-finals could be the last round in the competition for Griezmann, presumably ever. The French World Cup winner with the German surname has spent his entire club career in Spain but will cross the Atlantic in the summer to join Orlando City; had the Major League Soccer club got their way, he would have already gone. Instead, Griezmann’s long goodbye includes a final tilt at the Champions League.
