It was the latest, painful lesson that Mauricio Pochettino and his Tottenham players have been forced to endure on this Champions League adventure and it was one that emphatically ended their dream. The club put blood, sweat and tears into qualifying for the competition but they will now go no further.
When the draw was made for Group E, there had been the sense that Tottenham had not done too badly with their opponents. It was based, in part, on Monaco being beatable. Tottenham, after all, had taken four points from them at the Europa League group stage last season. How misplaced that judgment now looks.
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