'Muted applause and celebrations'
"It was party time and then the whole stadium just changed within a blink of an eye," said former Tottenham goalkeeper Rob Green, who was with BBC Radio 5 Live for the Europa League semi-final.It was one of Spurs' best performances of a wretched season domestically, but a late goal from Bodo/Glimt leaves a little window of doubt going into the second-leg in Norway."Everything was going their way with big players performing and then it just started to slip away," said Green on the Football Daily podcast. "The goal came and everything changed."It was muted applause and celebrations at full-time apart from in the yellow corner who have belief."It is going to be tough now for Ange Postecoglou because they need to see this out and it is the drop off that we see in players [in final stages] that worries people."Listen to the Football Daily podcast on BBC Sounds
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