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English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur advanced to the Champions League last 16 as Group D winners after Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg scored in stoppage ...

Tottenham won the match 2-1. The Danish midfielder scored in the 95th minute to secure Spurs' progress to the last 16 on a topsy-turvy night at Marseille. English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur advanced to the Champions League last 16 as Group D winners after Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg scored in stoppage time to beat Marseille.

Tottenham striker Harry Kane has been linked with Bayern Munich.

"I’m focused on Tottenham Hotspur and trying to do my best for us,” Kane said earlier this month. Kane is a top quality player, I feel sorry for him to have to play in this team that are not playing great football, but Kane looks happy and enjoys the new manager. The German side have spoken publicly about their intentions to sign Kane in the summer, who does not appear any closer to signing a new deal at the club.

Tottenham and Barcelona could go head to head for N'Golo Kante's signature next summer.

That's set to keep him out of action until February next year, preventing him from turning out at the World Cup this month. Spurs already have an established midfield duo in Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Rodrigo Bentancur, with the likes of Oliver Skipp and Yves Bissouma waiting in the wings to take their places. Affording his wages may be a tough one for Spurs but acquiring a player of such pedigree for free is an opportunity that doesn't come around often. Kante will fall into that category when the transfer window swings open on January 1, meaning Spurs would be forced to watch on helplessly if Barca manage to lay a tempting offer on the table. The Lilywhites may have to fend off rival interest from [Barcelona](/latest/barcelona-fc), however, with Kante approaching the end of his contract at Stamford Bridge. Foreign clubs are at liberty to negotiate pre-contract arrangements with players entering the final six months of their deals.

A late strike from Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg secured Tottenham's place in the Champions League last 16 with a 2-1 win away to Marseille.

Sanchez was desperate for a goal and was only denied by poor fortune and desperate defending, but his front-footed display from the first whistle was key to energising his side and pushed them onto Spurs from the off. WHAT NEXT FOR TOTTENHAM? THE BIGGER PICTURE: Injuries ought to have slowed the game down in Tottenham's favour in an interrupted first half, but instead they drowned under the deafening noise coming from the Stade Velodrome.

At halftime in the final round of group matches on Tuesday, Marseille and Sporting Lisbon were going through from Group D. But instead it was their ...

Tottenham had fallen behind on the stroke of halftime when Chancel Mbemba headed in a corner. But instead it was their opponents who progressed as a stoppage-time winner from Pierre-Emile Højbjerg saw Tottenham beat Marseille 2-1 to top the group and Frankfurt won by the same score in Lisbon Ferran Torres scored twice and Marcos Alonso and teenager Pablo Torre grabbed a goal each for the Catalan club. Frankfurt also came from behind, with Kolo Muani scoring a 72nd-minute winner for the visitors. The four places in Group C had already been decided with Inter having secured second spot ahead of Barcelona. “When we go back in the dressing room it was an important moment for the game …

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg scored a 95th-minute winner as Tottenham Hotspur came from behind to beat Marseille 2-1 and reach the Champions League knockout stage ...

Bayern finished with a 100-percent record by seeing off Inter 2-0 at the Allianz Arena in Group C. Barcelona's bitterly disappointing tournament came to an end with a 4-2 victory at bottom club Viktoria Plzen. Like Tottenham, Sporting only needed a point to qualify and they forged ahead six minutes before half-time as Arthur Gomes volleyed home at the back post. "He wasted a lot of energy." Atletico Madrid crashed out of Europe altogether with a loss to Porto, while Bayern Munich made it six wins from six matches by beating Inter Milan. Former Arsenal left-back Sead Kolasinac nodded a glorious late opportunity to send Marseille through wide.

Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min will have surgery on a facial injury sustained in the club's Champions League victory over Marseille on Wednesday, ...

But he is even more vital to South Korea. Tottenham said in a statement: “We can confirm that Heung-Min Son will undergo surgery to stabilise a fracture around his left eye. Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min will have surgery on a facial injury sustained in the club’s Champions League victory over Marseille on Tuesday, placing his participation at the 2022 World Cup with South Korea at risk.

Son suffered the injury in the first half of Tuesdays comeback victory over Marseille; no timeframe on 30-year-olds return, with World Cup starting in under ...

We need to try to play all the 90 minutes in the same level." "The stadium was very hot in the first half and sometimes it is normal to give the possibility to the opponent to play, to use the energy you have in the second half. "It is an important lesson for the future. We stayed in the match. In the difficulties, we didn't lose our minds. "Spurs couldn't put three passes together in the first half," Merson told Soccer Special.

Striker says team need to balance risk with caution more effectively after revival at Marseille provides vital lift.

“We’re a team that always feels like we’re going to get chances, especially in the second half of games when teams get tired,” Kane said. But he was a strong outlet, getting his team up the pitch, linking the play with lovely passes and driving into the box. “It was really important [to reach the last 16] just before the World Cup,” he said. Kane was brilliant in the second half against Marseille, even though he knew he should have put away one of his chances. The problem has been an inability to balance caution with risk and Spurs found it particularly difficult on a wild night in Marseille when they knew that a draw would have been enough to qualify, most likely as runners-up. Kane talked about how there was no panic at half-time, partly because the team had been there before and more frequently than they would like. Are Spurs lulling opponents into a false sense of security, luring them in to punch themselves out? Harry Kane put it as the pros tend to put it: heavy on understatement, a disappointing lack of drama. In the second half, we went man-for-man and took a bit more risk. Because yet again, for the sixth game in a row, Spurs had not turned up in the first half. The game swung when Clément Lenglet glanced in Ivan Perisic’s 54th-minute free-kick, and despite a couple of late scares Spurs were value for their win and progress as group leaders, which was secured by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg’s last-gasp breakaway goal. “We’ve got to find a balance between dropping and pressing.

I think it was more of a psychological battle because we could feel in the first half there was a team playing without the fear to lose, says Hugo Lloris.

People might get sick of it when I say, but we now really have to fight through and then in that moment the football has a good chance to come back, the real football that we can play.” “We’re a team that always feels like we’re going to get chances, especially in the second half of games when teams get tired,” Kane said. Harry Kane put it as the pros tend to put it: heavy on understatement, a disappointing lack of drama.