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Evening Standard
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Dan Kilpatrick

Tottenham have a star in Pape Matar Sarr as older heads continue to underwhelm

Tottenham will have to overturn a 1-0 deficit against AC Milan to reach the Champions League quarter-final but a 1-0 defeat in the last-16 first leg could not be blamed on their rookie midfield of Oliver Skipp and Pape Matar Sarr.

Instead, it was World Cup winner Cristian Romero who made the mistake for Milan's winning goal in the seventh minute, the Argentine centre-half meekly losing out to Theo Hernandez in the air before Brahim Diaz bundled over the line at the second attempt, in spite of Fraser Forster's best efforts.

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