This felt like a snapshot of Tottenhams progress. At the same time final year,Mauricio Pochettino’s team had wobbled in a sequence of fixtures that proved too much for them. Part of the flee saw an exit over two legs from the Europa League final 32 at the hands of Fiorentina.
It was the same opponents at the same stage of the same competition here at White Hart Lane but with a different outcome, as the confidence that is coursing Tottenham ranks was writ large across the occasion. Fiorentina sit third in Serie A and the manager, and Paulo Sousa,put out his strongest possible lineup. But they were never in with a sniff.
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Source: theguardian.com