Tottenham star Guglielmo Vicario reveals all on emotional Ange Postecoglou celebration

Guglielmo Vicario insists Tottenham are a team reborn after . The Italian goalkeeper made five stops to keep the Bundesliga outfit - previously undefeated in 11 European home matches - at bay in Germany as Dominic Solanke's decisive penalty fired Spurs into the semi-finals.

And even though Ange Postecoglou's side have lost a whopping 21 games in all competitions this season, Vicario claims the game-changing victory has given the group confidence they can go the distance and end the club's 17-year wait for silverware.

He said ahead of Monday's visit of : “Everyone has suffered a lot this season. It’s been a very tough one but now we are still alive and we want to fight for something special. It’s an important achievement.

"The job is not done but it’s a big win for Hotspur, for everyone, for the boss, for us players, for the staff, for the fans. So we are very proud of what we showed tonight."

Passionate shot-stopper Vicario immediately sprinted to the touchline to jump on Postecoglou and his coaching staff after Spurs survived the final waves of Eintracht attacks

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It's no secret Big Ange would have been on the brink if Tottenham had failed to reign supreme but with Bodo/Glimt - the first ever Norwegian side to reach the semi-finals of a European competition - now on the horizon, Spurs have every chance of reaching the final in Bilbao.

Vicario, however, insists Postecoglou's joyous stars won't get ahead of themselves because they have faced persistent setbacks all season.

When asked if their gutsy triumph at Deutsche Bank Park has raised confidence levels, the vocal 28-year-old leader replied: “Yeah, of course, we know we are going to face another tough opponent in the semi-final.

"We know when you arrive at this stage of the competition that every game will be tough. But we will fight for sure because tonight we showed that we have the capacity to do that. For us it’s very important to be through. It’s a big night.

"Now we want to live this moment altogether because it’s been a very suffering season.”

Given error-strewn, sloppy Spurs stuttered at Galatasaray and Rangers amid deafening noise earlier in the competition, sceptics had predicted them to freeze in Frankfurt. Vicario is adamant Tottenham have now proven they can handle the heat of a volatile atmosphere after Frankfurt's ferocious ultras appeared to spur them on at Waldstadion.

He continued: “Yeah. It’s just a perception. But we know what we are capable of when we are really tuned in, when we work hard as a team like we showed tonight. The achievement in both legs has been very, very deserved from what we showed at our home ground and tonight with the resilience, the desire to fight.

"We got the job done and it’s a fully deserved semi-final of a big European competition."

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