“If it’s easy to get to the finals, why wouldn’t everyone who ended in the top three do that?”

In Norway, owner Ange Postecoglou entered Tottenham critics, who moved on to the Europa League final after they reached the Europa League final, continuing his record of winning the trophy in his second season.

The Spurs defeated Bodo/Glimt 2-0 in their second leg of the semi-finals in the Arctic Circle to achieve a 5-1 overall victory on Thursday.

Dominic Solanke and Pedro Porro send the Spurs to the final, and they will face Manchester United in Bilbao on May 21.

After a bad domestic season, Tottenham Hotspurs ranked 16th in the Premier League and is chasing their first major trophy since 2008.

Despite the loss of many senior players, Postecoglou has received huge criticism from Tottenham's form. They won the season without James Maddison and Lucas Bergvall in Norway, and he was missing.

Sometimes he won the trophy in his second season at the second club, and sometimes he was ridiculed.

At Aspmyra Stadium, he was again minutes after seeing his team reach the finals.

"It won't frustrate a lot of people," Postecoglou said. "The anger of this debate is now. The latest is that if we win, neither of us can get the trophy, they're just trying to take the team photos because we're not worth it."

"I mean, who cares if we are struggling in the league? It's a different thing. It has nothing to do with the form of the league.

"I don't care who is struggling, who is not. I think we and Manchester United have both won the right to be there."

It was Tottenham's sixth European final - their last one was in 2019 when they lost to Liverpool in the Champions League.

Since winning the 2008 Calaba Cup, the Spurs have lost three finals and been defeated in three semi-finals. They reached four FA Cup semi-finals before they even made progress.

The club has not cancelled the 41-year Europa League since defeating Anderlecht to win the then-Euro Cup.

"I keep saying that's important," Postecoglou continued. “What’s going on right now is people worrying – it can actually happen, let’s see how we’re removing it somehow and weakening it somehow is a bad season and we shouldn’t have got this or we shouldn’t have got that or somehow compare us to Man United.

"Maybe if we have Manchester United's success, then maybe I'll have a different perspective. So, of course, it's huge. Of course, because you have to compare it with what clubs have been through in the last 15 or 20 years and what supporters have been through.

“We gave them some real hope and dreams and we can do something special this year.”