Champions League: Experience of 'the Old Lady' End

As the clocks of Wembley stadium's giant screens ticked toward full-time, the Juventus following in the corner of the ground bounced in unison. Their team had done it again. For two-and-a-half hours of this tie, they had seemed too old and too slow for Tottenham. But Juventus proved there's life in the Old Lady yet.

Just when Tottenham thought they had this game and tie under control, 1-0 ahead after an hour through another Son Heung-min goal and heading into the quarter-final of the Champions League, Juventus flipped the game upside down in just seven minutes. Mauricio Pochettino had warned of the danger Gonzalo Higuaín posed and he showed why— scoring and then assisting for Paulo Dybala to send Juventus into the final eight and Tottenham out.

Dybala, absent from the first leg due to a hamstring injury, can often be found playing chess at Juventus’ training ground in Turin. When the 24-year-old Argentine raced through on goal in the 67th minute and finished cooly over Hugo Lloris it was checkmate to Juventus. The knight of this team had slipped straight through the Tottenham defense and the kings of Italian football were heading through.

As always, Tottenham was impre mri remote monitoring ssive and the result was cruel. Juventus dominated this game for little over 10 minutes but that was all they needed. This was English youth against Italian experience, and the latter succeeded. Indeed, seven of Massimiliano Allegri’s starting lin Embedded LTE Cat 1 router e-up featured in last season’s final and had a combined total of 614 appearances in this competition, compared to the 188 of Pochettino’s. But there was a fine balance to be found. The average age of the Juventus team was five years older than Tottenham’s at 30.