{"id":379961,"date":"2011-04-13T18:54:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/13\/mission-impossible-for-spurs\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T18:54:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:54:34","slug":"mission-impossible-for-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/mission-impossible-for-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission impossible for Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.488404196576\">\n<div readability=\"44.890011223345\">\n<div readability=\"16.852071005917\">\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ccb54382eal_2585257.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Mission impossible for Spurs\" title=\"Mission impossible for Spurs\" width=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo celebrates after seeing his shot squirm past Gomes<\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <!-- topicID: -1 storyID: 6869796 -->\t<\/p>\n<h3>Related links<\/h3>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Also see<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--\/ss-art-subcol\/--><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham bowed out of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday, with a 1-0 defeat to Real Madrid bringing their European adventure to an end.\n<\/p>\n<p>It was always going to be a lot to ask for Harry Redknapp&#8217;s men to overturn a 4-0 first leg deficit in their quarter-final tie, and ultimately that challenge proved too great.<\/p>\n<p>A howler from Heurelho Gomes put the final nail in their coffin, with the Brazilian keeper somehow spilling an ambitious 30-yard shot from Cristiano Ronaldo over the line.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs did, however, prove that they are capable of mixing it with the continent&#8217;s best with 11 men on the field, following Peter Crouch&#8217;s costly dismissal at Santiago Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p>They could have led at the interval in midweek had decisions gone their way, with three penalty shouts falling on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Bale, Luka Modric and Roman Pavlyuchenko all tumbled inside the box, with the latter appearing to have the strongest claim to a spot kick after going over a leg hung out by Raul Albiol.<\/p>\n<p>Any hope of a remarkable comeback evaporated five minutes into the second half when Gomes failed to deal with Ronaldo&#8217;s hopeful effort from distance, sending White Hart Lane into silence for the first time on the night.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Jermain Defoe saw a header from a tight angle hit the post inside the final 20 minutes, but that would be as close as the hosts came to forcing a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs can take plenty of positives from their debut campaign in Europe&#8217;s premier club competition, but it is Real who move on to the semi-finals and a mouth-watering contest with arch-rivals and tournament favourites Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p><i>More to follow&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--lingo_region--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/feef2be6skybet_logo.png.png\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skybet.com\/skybet?offer=104&#038;aff=1572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here for Your Free Bet<\/a>\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ccb54382eal_2585257.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/match_report\/0,19764,11065_3378940,00.html\" title=\"Mission impossible for Spurs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission impossible for Spurs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ronaldo celebrates after seeing his shot squirm past Gomes Related links Teams Also see Tottenham bowed out of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday, with a 1-0 defeat to Real Madrid bringing their European adventure to an end. It was always going to be a lot to ask for Harry Redknapp&#8217;s men to overturn a 4-0 first leg deficit in their quarter-final tie, and ultimately that challenge proved too great. A howler from Heurelho Gomes put the final nail in their coffin, with the Brazilian keeper somehow spilling an ambitious 30-yard shot from Cristiano Ronaldo over the line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mission impossible for Spurs - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/mission-impossible-for-spurs\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mission impossible for Spurs - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ronaldo celebrates after seeing his shot squirm past Gomes Related links Teams Also see Tottenham bowed out of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday, with a 1-0 defeat to Real Madrid bringing their European adventure to an end. 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