Tottenham beat Manchester United in Europa League final Tottenham Hotspur ended their 17-year wait for a trophy with victory against Manchester United in the Europa League final. Brennan Johnson (42')
00:00Walking in the ancient footsteps of Greaves and Chivers, Charlton and Best, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, who also began in the Premier League at Villa on Friday night.
00:11Son Heung-min just recovered, only makes the bench. Dominic Solanke has five goals in Europe this season.
00:18Captain Bruno Fernandes is the competition's top scorer with seven goals. Rasmus Hojland, who leads the line, is on his heels with six.
00:26The 2025 UEFA Europa League final is upon us.
00:32Pedro Poro from right full-back for Tottenham, up towards Solanke, out-jumped by Joro, and here is Ahmad and Bruno Fernandes.
00:46Truly deafening atmosphere, isn't it? The curious sight of both teams having to huddle in the same half before kick-off has made way for a feisty start.
00:56Salanke tight to Maguire, it's a steal from Brennan-Johnson.
01:05Johnson!
01:08Thrashed back in by Saar and Maguire made the block.
01:11Hoyland jostling.
01:14Bruno Fernandes to play it in.
01:16It reached Maguire.
01:17And now Ahmad has flashed it right across the face.
01:25The ball again winds its way all the way to the far post.
01:31The carrier coming and flapping, but when he lands at the feet of Ahmad, it's just a little chip which sets him up.
01:36Just get a fingertip, the carrier, but nothing to really cement himself coming out.
01:41Casemiro spraying it as he can do beautifully.
01:50Dogu.
01:52Dogu hung it up.
01:53Rajrawi was waiting to meet it.
01:56Dogu nicked it clear as far as Ahmad.
01:59And now Fernandes and Di Corio clings on.
02:01See Hoyland's just making the point that he wants the ball whipped in earlier.
02:08Couldn't get on the end of that.
02:09Nowhere near quick enough or in the right place at the right time to understand where Fernandes and the Champions League away is.
02:17Quite.
02:19Saar.
02:21Richarlison.
02:23Slipped in for Bentancourt.
02:25Saar once more, and Johnson's in there!
02:35Ant-Hodden struck first of the big night!
02:41Brennan Johnson right on the line!
02:48Slipped in for Bentancourt.
02:49Brennan Johnson is always a threat.
02:51He will always, always track that back post.
02:53This time, though, he comes from such a wide position to get all the way across.
02:59Akin to a centre-forward run, isn't it?
03:01Right in the centre of the box.
03:03All it needs is a touch.
03:05It's not the prettiest goal you're ever going to see.
03:08In fact, you're struggling there to work out who on earth is touching it at the very last.
03:13There's an arm from Shaw.
03:16And then maybe a toe from Johnson.
03:18He will 100% be claiming it, Brennan Johnson.
03:23Even if he's got the end of a stud.
03:26Just squirms away, doesn't it, awkwardly from Unana.
03:33And just embraced.
03:35And Spurs folk mutually embraced.
03:38Well, it's not the prettiest football match.
03:43It wasn't the prettiest goal.
03:45But there's no-one in white complaining about that.
03:48We reach half-time in the 2025 UEFA Europa League final.
03:52And their first European trophy since 1984.
03:57So, David Protten, how did Manchester United alter the dynamic here?
04:12Lifted in by Fernandes.
04:14Vicario came.
04:15Hoyland couldn't get access to it.
04:19It's David Carrier by surprise.
04:21It's near post.
04:23Almost a toe on the end.
04:25Really difficult ball to deal with for the Spurs.
04:29Goalkeeper.
04:34Fernando Fernandes placed it in.
04:36Vicario couldn't keep it.
04:37Hoyland!
04:38Off the line, Van der Ven.
04:41Jorow!
04:44And smuggled away for Son.
04:46Because that is a situation that he's got total control of.
04:50It's his own defender that puts him off.
04:52But that, as a goal-line clearance, it's as good as a goal, isn't it?
04:57Goalkeeper makes a complete mess of it.
05:00Look at this, though.
05:01We know he's quick across the ground, Van der Ven.
05:03But agility as well.
05:08Not just quick across the ground.
05:09And that's his first touch.
05:19That's Rowy.
05:20Fernandes!
05:24Spears his plunging head away.
05:26Gets the angles wrong.
05:29Almost doesn't quite place where he is.
05:31It's a good contact, but it's a contact that's a couple of foot wide, isn't it?
05:34I think to scare Vicario too much.
05:47Jorow's header.
05:48On by Fernandes.
05:49Welcomed in by Xerxe.
05:51Fernandes again.
05:52Scooped out towards Garnaccio.
05:54Beyond whom goes Dorgou.
05:56Alejandro Garnaccio!
05:58Vicario got across.
05:59Manchester United's corner.
06:03Just what United need.
06:05There's an eco run down his left,
06:06which allows him to come back inside on his right.
06:14From the goalkeeper who's looked occasionally.
06:16But he's got very little to look at ahead of him.
06:19He's done particularly well to locate Solanke.
06:21And Solanke made it stick.
06:23And he marched away from Fernandes.
06:25And he's got son inside of him.
06:27And Masraoui made a critical intervention.
06:32Dominic Solanke's absolutely worked his socks off, hasn't he?
06:36Spent a lot of time on his own in the last half an hour.
06:39Shaw's diagonal.
06:40Dallow's flick.
06:42Ahmad.
06:45Dallow lofts it in.
06:49There's a player gone down in a heap.
06:51Harry Maguire is appealing.
06:53The referee's looking the other way.
06:57That player was Casemiro.
07:00Bruno Fernandes.
07:04Dallow.
07:06Now or never for Manchester United.
07:08What a save, Vicario!
07:12Jane Onada is coming forward.
07:15It's just utter torture, isn't it?
07:16Both sets of fans going through the ringer.
07:18All the players back.
07:19The goalkeeper's up as well.
07:28Ahmad's delivery.
07:31Overhead is into the side netting and behind.
07:34At the stadium here, thinking that that hit the back of the net.
07:39Look at that.
07:40Is that every single player in the six-yard box barring the corner taker?
07:43Casemiro's acrobatics from theirs.
07:52Everything they hoped.
07:57It's about to happen for Spurs.
07:59How they have waited.
08:03How they have thirsted.
08:05Glory, glory.
08:07Tottenham Hotspur.
08:09Spurs have gone and done it at last.
08:15Ange Postacoglu has delivered as he promised he would.
08:20Manchester United are left with nothing but a pile of regrets.
08:27And what might have been.
08:30Tottenham's 17-year trophy drought is over.
08:34Now about to receive a fresh, new, modern adornment.
08:39The first English club ever to win a European trophy more than 60 years ago.
08:47In 2025.
08:50The Europa League winners are Tottenham Hotspur.
