Tottenham Hotspur have done the unthinkable. Just when you thought the Champions League couldn’t get any more outrageous.
Less than 24 hours after Liverpool staged one of the greatest-ever fightbacks at Anfield, Lucas Moura scored a second-half hat-trick to secure a 3-2 win in Amsterdam and send Tottenham through on away goals to the final in Madrid on June 1.
They progress to the final on away goals via a 3-3 aggregate scoreline over Ajax in extraordinary scenes.
With virtually the last kick of the game, Spurs completed one an impossible three-goal comeback to end Ajax’s fairytale on their own turf, via a magnificent Lucas Moura hat-trick.
Moura scores second-half hat-trick as Tottenham reach Champions League final with a dramatic victory in Amsterdam
Tottenham will face Liverpool in an all-English Champions League final after producing a stunning second-half comeback against Ajax to rival the Reds' miracle win over Barcelona.
Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, Spurs looked out of it at half-time after a towering header from Matthijs de Ligt and a curling finish from Hakim Ziyech.
But Lucas stuck twice inside four minutes to level the scores early in the second half, first slotting home a brisk counter-attack before wriggling past two defenders in the box to smash in the equaliser.
And the Brazilian completed his remarkable hat-trick when he scored the dramatic winner deep into stoppage time to seal another historic night in this competition, and leave Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino in tears.
Spurs will now face Liverpool in the final in Madrid on June 1.
Manchester United beat Ajax to win the Europa League and reach next season's Champions League, thanks to goals from Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Pogba scored with a deflected strike before Mkhitaryan's close-range finish on an emotional night in Stockholm.
There was recognition before the game of those killed in Monday's attack in Manchester and United's players wore black armbands in respect.
United are the fifth side to win all three major European club competitions.
Prior to this victory they had won the European Cup on three occasions, in 1968, 1999 and 2008, and the Cup Winners' Cup in 1991.
Deprived of injured top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic, defenders Marcos Rojo and Luke Shaw and the suspended Eric Bailly, Jose Mourinho's side had to dig deep in their 64th and final game of this season.
But their greater experience, coupled with an effective counter-attacking game plan, told against a youthful Ajax side who, with an average age of 22 years and 282 days, fielded the youngest starting XI in a major European final.
United now join champions Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester City in next season's Champions League group stages, which will earn them about £50m in revenue.
This also represents their second trophy of Mourinho's debut season as United boss following their victory in the EFL Cup in February.
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