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Tottenham Hotspur were staring at extra time with a buoyant AZ Alkmaar when James Maddison let the ball roll across his body, sneaked between two red shirts and began the sequence that would send Spurs into the quarter-finals.
This was Maddison at his instinctive and inventive best, and how Ange Postecoglou needed him, just as Spurs appeared to be letting this tense and frenetic Europa League tie slip from their grasp. Instead Wilson Odobert tapped in his second goal to secure a 3-1 win for Spurs on the night (3-2 on aggregate) to ease the pressure on Postecoglou and book a meeting with Eintracht Frankfurt in the last eight.
Postecoglou had bristled on Wednesday at the framing of this game as win-or-bust for the season
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