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Tottenham are one game from ending a 13-year trophy drought as they booked their place in the Carabao Cup final with a 2-0 win over Brentford.<\/p>\nTottenham are one game from ending a 13-year trophy drought as they booked their place in the Carabao Cup final with a 2-0 win over Brentford.<\/p>\n
Jose Mourinho\u2019s exceptional record in the League Cup continues as he has reached his fifth final and, promisingly for Spurs, he has won his previous four.<\/p>\n
Moussa Sissoko\u2019s first-half goal and a Son Heung-min strike after the break got the job done as Spurs ended a run of three successive domestic semi-final defeats.<\/p>\n
Mourinho was brought into the club to deliver silverware and he will now eagerly wait to see the outcome of Wednesday\u2019s second semi-final between Manchester City and Manchester United \u2013 both teams who Spurs have beaten this season.<\/p>\n
Brentford had beaten four Premier League teams to reach their first major semi-final and things might have been different had Ivan Toney\u2019s equalizer not been ruled out for a marginal offside as they ended the night with 10 men following Josh Da Silva\u2019s red card.<\/p>\n
But this was all about Spurs and their quest to finally win some silverware.<\/p>\n
Mourinho does not lose semi-finals in this competition and his team selection against the Championship side showed that he was not prepared to risk it here as a strong spine of a team was spearheaded by Harry Kane and Son in attack.<\/p>\n
And that team selection was rewarded as Spurs took a 12th-minute lead, from an albeit unlikely source.<\/p>\n
They worked the ball out to the left and Sergio Reguilon, back in the side after his coronavirus rule-breaking indiscretion, delivered an inviting ball into Sissoko, who planted a header into the top corner.<\/p>\n
It was the Frenchman\u2019s first goal since December 2019 and came via his first on-target effort of the season.<\/p>\n
Spurs were happy to concede possession to Thomas Frank\u2019s side but they were the ones who looked like adding to their lead.<\/p>\n
Son brought a flying save out of David Raya with a curling shot from the edge of the area and then the Brentford goalkeeper clawed away Lucas Moura\u2019s deflected header from Son\u2019s corner.<\/p>\n
Although they dominated possession in the first half, Brentford rarely looked like scoring, but they got their first opening shortly after the restart.<\/p>\n
Bryan Mbeumo got in behind Davinson Sanchez, wriggled free in the penalty area where he might have gone down, before teeing up Ivan Toney, but the in-form striker was denied by a heroic block from Serge Aurier.<\/p>\n
It was an eventful couple of minutes for the right-back as moments later he found himself bursting into Brentford\u2019s area and the ball fell to him in a great position, but he lost his composure and fired over.<\/p>\n
Those missed chances looked to have cost Spurs as Brentford thought they had drawn level just after the hour.<\/p>\n
The hosts failed to clear a corner and Toney headed home from close range only for VAR to rule him marginally offside.<\/p>\n
Tottenham made the most of their reprieve as they finally doubled their lead seven minutes later.<\/p>\n
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg won the ball back, Kane fed Tanguy Ndombele who played in Son and the South Korean made no mistake with an emphatic finish.<\/p>\n
It was his 16th goal of the season and put one foot back on Wembley Way for Spurs.<\/p>\n
They went for the kill as Kane was denied by a fine save by Raya and then Ndombele hit the post from an acute angle.<\/p>\n
Brentford\u2019s night ended on a sour note as they were reduced to 10 men in the final 10 minutes as Da Silva walked for a horror challenge on Hojbjerg, who left the pitch with a nasty gash on his shin.<\/p>\n