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Moura's Late Goal In Barcelona Takes Tottenham Through To Last 16

By Wires
Football News Moura's Late Goal In Barcelona Takes Tottenham Through To Last 16
DEC 12, 2018 LISTEN

Tottenham secured a remarkable qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League as Lucas Moura's 85th-minute equaliser earned a priceless point against Barcelona at the Nou Camp.

Spurs, with one point from their first three games but coming off two straight wins in Group B, needed to match or better Inter Milan's result at home to PSV Eindhoven and faced elimination when Mauro Icardi levelled for Inter in the 73rd minute.

There was an agonising wait for Spurs before it was announced that Inter had failed to find a winner against the group's bottom side.

Tottenham had gone behind to Ousmane Dembele's early strike but then peppered Barcelona's defence with wave after wave of attacks, with both Harry Kane and Son Heung-min going close.

They finally made the decisive breakthrough five minutes from the end when substitute Moura, who moments earlier had a header cleared off the line, fired in.

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Spurs become only the eighth side to qualify from the group stage after claiming only one point from their first three games.

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