[엑스포츠뉴스 김정현 인턴기자] Tottenham Hotspur’s elimination in the UEFA Europa League made the coach even more frustrated.
Tottenham Hotspur was eliminated on the 19th (Korean time in the 2020/21 season UEFA Europa League round of 16 2nd leg Dinamo Zagreb away game after an overtime battle, losing 2-3 back-to-back.
Tottenham went on a leisurely expedition to Croatia, winning 2-0 in the first leg at home, but Son Heung-min was seriously injured.
Zagreb, who was defeated in the first game, faced an emergency situation in which the coach was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for embezzlement, and the chief coach took over as coach.
However, when I opened the cover of the second game, Zagreb was the team that showed good performance. Zagreb has been targeting Tottenham’s goal all the time, except in the first half.
Zagreb finished the first half without scoring, and Mislav Orsic scored a streak in the 62nd and 83rd minutes, tying a combined score of 2-2 and heading for extra time.
Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho made aggressive changes such as adding Gareth Bale and Carlos Vinicius, excluding starters Eric Lamela and Lucas Monra, but did not create a scoring opportunity at all.
Rather, in the 106th minute of extra time, Orsic gave a humiliating breakthrough, followed by Wonder Goal, and was eliminated in the round of 16 with a 2-3 turnaround.
The Zagreb players hugged each other and cheered as they succeeded in the stand-by play as Orsic’s one-man show and the dedication of the squad were added to the situation where the manager was changed halfway through the first leg.
The eliminated Tottenham players bowed and headed straight to the locker room, but Radley King, the team’s chief coach and Tottenham’s one-clubman legend, sat down on the bench and lowered his head as if crying.
Radley King is also the only winner on the team, with Tottenham’s results incredibly sweeping. King also contributed to winning the 2007/08 League Cup.
Despite numerous injuries at Tottenham, King played for Tottenham for 13 years from 1998/99 to 2011/12, showing high loyalty.
Even after retirement, he worked as a youth team coach and club ambassador and is currently coaching under Jose Mourinho.
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