On this day in 2019: Spurs advance to Champions League quarter-finals | OneFootball

On this day, six years ago, Tottenham Hotspur beat Borussia Dortmund 1-0 at Signal Iduna Park, to advance to the Champions League quarter-finals. They had won the first leg 3-0 at Wembley a few weeks before, so progressed with a resounding 4-0 aggregate win. What a time.

For the second leg, Mauricio Pochettino opted for a line up of; Lloris; Alderweireld, Sanchez, Vertonghen; Aurier, Sissoko, Winks, Eriksen, Davies; Kane, Son. (352). Dier, Lamela, and Rose came off the bench - whilst Gazzaniga, Lucas, and Llorente were the unused subs on the night.

Spurs beat Borussia Dortmund to advance in Europe, on this day six years ago

After just six minutes of the game, Marco Reus was in goal, and set to pull the trigger from around six yards out, but Vertonghen was on hand to make an incredible last ditch tackle, and prevent a likely goal.

Half an hour in, Spurs had their first seriously presentable opportunity of the game, when Eriksen played a slide rule pass to put Son through on goal after an out to in run, but he uncharacteristically dragged his shot wide of the target.

Soon after, Julian Weigl had a header well saved by Lloris, before Davies made an even better block to deny him from the rebound. Spurs could not get the ball away, and after another couple of corners, Lloris made a good save to deny a curling effort from Raphael Guerreiro.

Four minutes into the second half, Dortmund were made to rue their missed chances. A well weighted through ball from Sissoko played Kane through on goal, who kept his composure to curl the ball into the corner. The sound the net made as the ball went in was just sublime, to go along with a great goal. That strike made him the club's all time leading scorer in European competitions.

After 76 minutes, Christian Pulisic was unmarked following a corner, but could only send his header over the bar. With a minute of normal time remaining, Paco Alcarer was sent through on goal, but was denied by Lloris - whom had an excellent evening, making seven clean saves and keeping a clean sheet.

What a night. What a journey. It was not the most vintage performance, Dortmund had 19 shots to Spurs' 5, and seven shots on target to one - but for all their effort and endeavour, they only created the same amount of big chances as Spurs - with two each.