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Scoreless draw is enough

There is joy in the Champions League exploits that have taken Tottenham Hotspur to the quarter-finals, but it is relief that makes such happiness all the more intense. This goalless draw sufficed, yet that stalemate was brittle and an enterprising Milan, who lead Serie A, could not have been begrudged their joy entirely if they had scored.

Tottenham, for their part, are fully entitled to think of themselves as a side that dealt with the conundrum of conducting a match before their own crowd when the imperative to win was not great. Ultimately, they had to rely more than they would have preferred on their goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes, who contributed to the engrossing and lively occasion.

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