Spurs taught a painful lesson by wily Old Lady

And so the Old Lady prevailed, as the old masters of European football finally ended Tottenham’s swashbuckling adventure in the Champions League.

This was a masterclass in how to win a European tie despite being up against a vibrant in-form side who had beaten Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund in the group stages and were favourites to progress.

But the likes of Giorgio Chiellini, Gianluigi Buffon, and Gonzalo Higuain have not contested two of the past three Champions League finals for nothing, and they showed last night, as Real Madrid had the previous evening in Paris, that you write off such grandees of European football at your peril.