Brennan Johnson’s winner of Brennan Johnson’s 42nd minute gave Tottenham his first trophy in more than 17 years and a place in the Champions League with victory in a final of the Europa All-English League against Manchester United.
Wales striker Johnson jumped from Pope Matar Sarr’s cross, a shot to the goal that took a heavy touch from the United Luke Shaw defender and exceeded the scope of goalkeeper Andera onana.
The manager of the Spurs, Ange Postcoglou, will feel a considerable level of justification after having guided the team immediately above the relegation zone in the elite of return to competition with the European elite, which made his commitment to continue his tendency to win silverware during his second season with clubs.
United was denied an equalizer in the second half by the acrobatic clearance of Micky Van de Ven from the Rasmus Hojlund header before Guglielmo Vicario brilliantly made Luke Shaw’s head, but there should not be a reward for Ruben Amorim in a first miserable season since the arrival of Portuguese in the sport in sport.
First blood spurs! ⚽️
It’s disjointed but they don’t care! Brennan Johnson claims it while he takes full advantage of the carnage in the area to put the Spurs in advance in the Europa League final
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– Football on TNT SPORTS (@footballontnt) May 21, 2025
Tottenham vs Man United: Postcoglou wins the Europa League
During a season when Postcoglou has been accused of naively cavalier tactics several times, the Spurs have given up possession in favor of the defensive form, exchanging swashbuckling for stubbornness and plume against pragmatism.
The result was a third crucial white sheet in four games in the Europa League, including a study in contrast to a league race which has not presented a bleaching since their home victory 1-0 against United on February 16.
They absorbed an abundance of pressure as the competition progressed, surviving when the Vicario grout offered the best chance of Hojlund United before the Italian international reacts intelligently to Tick Shaw for an additional seven minutes.
Van de VE – Troubled by injuries throughout the season, and the supplier of a decisive pass for Johnson when the Spurs won 3-0 in United in the league – will have long remembered his heroic intervention on the line, a clearance of protruding facts adapted to a game often low on the quality of attack and the nerves.
What authorization Micky Van de Ven 🤩👏
Incredible half of the spurs center while it erases acrobatically the head linked to the goal of Hojlund out of the line !!
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– Football on TNT SPORTS (@footballontnt) May 21, 2025
2025 Europa League Final: United Miss Out
Amorim had talked about the financial importance for United to win, but there may have been more at stake for Postcoglou, who was among the favorites as the next manager to leave his post throughout the season
Systematically, Tetchy and Defensive, because the terrible national season of Tottenham all the more pressure on their national race, the next cause of Australia of dismay in press conferences is likely to come from the way the Spurs are out of the Champions League when they have fought so much in the first league.
For the moment, Postcoglou can celebrate. The emotions were overwhelming for Captain his Heung-Min, who spent 10 years at the club and cried on the field when he was held in a long embrace by the injured midfielder James Maddison while Tottenham was waiting for the presentation of the trophy.
The Spurs play their last game of the season at home against Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League on Sunday (4:00 p.m. BST), while United is simultaneously at home from Aston Villa.
Where was the final of the Europa 2025 League?
The final was played at the San Mames Home stadium in Bilbao Side Athletic Club, which was eliminated by United in the semi-finals.
The Lions moved there in 2013. Their previous stadium organized the second stage of the final in 1977, when Bilbao beat Juve 2-1 but lost goals outside.
San Mamés 😍#Uel pic.twitter.com/jnftle4gzh
– UEFA Europa League (@europaleague) January 29, 2025
Has Tottenham already won the Europa League before?
Tottenham won the inaugural edition of the competition – known as the UEFA Cup until 2009 – with a global 3-2 victory against the Wolves in the 1972 final.
They also triumphed in 1984, beating Anderlecht with penalties after the end of the two legs 1-1.
#Ordayday In 1984, we beat Anderlecht to lift the UEFA cup to White Hart Lane! #Coys pic.twitter.com/ffogwxb5kt
– Tottenham Hotspur (@Spursificial) May 23, 2017
Has Man United already won the Europa League?
United lifted the trophy in 2016/17, reaching the final against the Dutch giants Ajax graceful of a global victory of 2-1 on Celta Vigo.
Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored in a 2-0 victory for United at The Friends Arena in Solna when they won the competition for the only time in their history.
