Another season over as Tottenham’s night ended in boos, frustration and a red card.
It is threatening to turn horribly sour for Antonio Conte as the Spurs fans jeered the team off at half-time and full-time, and there was a chorus of disapproval for his substitutions. Cristian Romero was sent off for a second yellow card with just 12 minutes left and his stupidity and lack of discipline summed up a sloppy performance which never looked like turning the tie around.
Tottenham were so flat and you would never know a place in the Champions League quarter-finals was at stake, which perhaps says much about the mood and frustrations among the fed-up supporters. Conte, back on the touchline for the first time in three weeks after recovering from emergency gallbladder surgery, had used his programme notes to ask the Spurs fans to make the “stadium as loud as it’s ever been”.
