After 41 years of European trophy drought and 17 years of a major silverware eluding Tottenham Hotspurs, Ange Postecoglou came in, took over the wheels and steered Spurs to a long-awaited glory in football history as he spearheaded the club’s successful season ever in 17 years as he helped them prevail against trophy elusiveness at the expense of Manchester United who are one place above the North Londoners on the English Premiership ladder on 16th, with both clubs having the chance to use the Europa League triumph as a route to play a part in next season’s Champions League.

On Wednesday night in the UEFA Europa League final at the Estadio San Mamés in Bilbao, Spain, Tottenham Hotspurs prevailed in the all-English European Cup final— a type of fixture that they had featured in against Liverpool in the 2019 UEFA Champions League which they lost 2-0 to the Merseyside outfit.

From the blast of the whistle, the game’s intensity rose exponentially as the two strong English teams played it out against eachother in a fierceful contest, with managers of both sides, coming up with their various strategies and ideas to beat the odds of losing out potentially.

The novel clear-cut chance of the game came up when Brennan Johnson made a resurging run down the right side who made the effort to find Pape Matar sarr, whose shot was blocked by Harry Maguire.

It was at the 42nd minute that Sarr and Johnson combined again to produce the most emphatic moment of the night as the two combined to get the only goal of the game as Pape Matar Sarr swung in a cross from the left hand side to find Brennan Johnson who found himself in between the Manchester United defenders in the 6 yard box to connect with the cross, when Luke Shaw inadvertently hit the final touch to produce the “golden goal” of the night. Johnson’s goal became the 31st time that Manchester United had conceded first in a game throughout the season— the most by a club in the Premiership this campaign.

Tottenham Hotspurs held on to the lead as it came at the time which was nearing the end of the first half, defending so well to keep up with the lead as it transcended into the second half when they had their destiny in their own hands, the ability to make history and etch their names into history books, as it was the only song echoing in their ears throughout the second half. A very notable moment of the game was when Micky Van de Ven exhibited his acrobatic style by making a goal line clearance after Vicario failed to do justice to Bruno Fernandes’ free kick, which was solidified by a Hojlund’s header.

The two sides battled it out through till the latter stages of the game where Manchester United began pressing forward with the ball, using more of the flanks as Garnacho and Dalot were introduced, to utilize the widths of the pitch as they had exhausted all other options.

On the 5th minute of the 7-minutes additional time, Diogo Dalot launched in a wonderful cross that located Luke Shaw, who had a good header on the ball with good precision and accuracy but was denied by Vicario who shoved the ball away.

After the additional minutes elapsed, referee Zwayer of Germany blasted the whistle to end the most anticipated game of the week and had Ange Postecoglou, who was also playing his 100th game as Tottenham manager and his charges emerge victorious on the night at the expense of Ruben Amorim’s Manchester United.

The win brought to life the dream of having the North London side win a trophy as was instigated by Mauricio Pochettino who had already missed out on winning the Premiership for two times and had settled for second place in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons and also missing out on a league cup final with interim manager, Ryan Mason in 2021