Great to score our first ever goal and get our first ever win in the CL quarter finals ! But wish we had won by a bigger margin. We played well and deserved to get this win. Too bad we couldn't score more goals. It would have been a perfect if we had won by 2 or 3 goals. Instead we will be under pressure in the second leg with this slim lead. Also, it is also disappointing to see Kane getting himself injured with a needless tackle. We are going to miss him if he is to get a long term injury. At least we can be happy that we played well and scored after Kane was injured. It shows we can score and win without Kane. Hope all the other players will lift their game during Kane's absence.
Credit to Son for scoring our only goal and Eriksen for assisting it. It was a crucial time to score our goal. It was a well taken goal with the Emirates Marketing Project defence going to sleep thinking the ball had gone out. Apart from the goal, we had other chances to score as well. Kane and Alli had chances which they should have done better. Son also had a chance late in the match which he should have done better as well. It was really disappointing to see Kane going out injured like that. Kane should really learn to protect himself more as he had injured himself many times with needless tackles like these so far.
Our midfield had a mixed match. We let Emirates Marketing Project control the midfield in the first half but we played much better in the second half. Credit to Sissoko for playing very well. Winks also worked hard but felt he should have tackled more. Good to see Wanyama playing well after coming on late in the match. Will prefer if Wanyama and Sissoko play in our midfield in the second leg.
Well done to our defence for keeping this clean sheet. We rode our luck but our defence did their part as well. It is no surprise that we defended very well and got our second consecutive clean sheet without the error-prone Sanchez in defence. Hope we will continue with only Vertonghen and Alderweireld in all our remaining matches, especially the second leg away. Credit to Lloris for saving his third consecutive penalties. After his earlier penalty saves against Leicester and Arsenal, it was great to see him saving this crucial penalty against Emirates Marketing Project in the CL quarter finals as well. Hope Lloris will continue his good form for the rest of the season.
Despite the win, it is going to be tough defending the 1-0 lead in the second leg away. A 0-0 draw in the second leg at Emirates Marketing Project will be enough for us to progress to the CL semi finals but we rarely draw 0-0. As such, we definitely need to score at least 1 goal in the second leg to overcome Emirates Marketing Project. Hope we will boosted by this win to go into the second leg at Emirates Marketing Project in a confident mood.
