Spurs book place in Champions League quarter-finals

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Harry Kane rewrote the history books as Tottenham finished off Borussia Dortmund to reach the Champions League quarter-finals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The England striker&&num;8217&semi;s second-half goal saw him become Spurs&&num;8217&semi; leading scorer in European competitions with 24&comma; helping his side win 1-0 away to the Bundesliga leaders and seal a 4-0 aggregate success in the last-16 tie&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kane&&num;8217&semi;s 14th goal in 17 Champions League appearances again proved he is the man for the occasion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spurs came into the game with a 3-0 advantage from the first leg&comma; but they were forced to survive a first-half barrage at Signal Iduna Park&comma; before Kane&&num;8217&semi;s goal early after the restart took the pressure off and ensured a safe passage to the last eight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Progression represents progress for Mauricio Pochettino&&num;8217&semi;s side&comma; who went out to Juventus at this stage last season&period; It means they are in their first Champions League quarter-final since Harry Redknapp took them there in 2011&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; it was not an entirely comfortable evening for Spurs &&num;8211&semi; the outcome might have been different had Dortmund taken one of 11 first-half chances&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With such a rescue mission to perform&comma; the hosts were always going to start strongly and they had their visitors on the rack early&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jan Vertonghen&comma; the first leg hero at Wembley three weeks ago with a goal and an assist&comma; again came up trumps for his side with a brilliant goal-saving tackle on Marco Reus after the Dortmund skipper capitalized on a Davinson Sanchez error&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spurs were not helping themselves as they were sloppy in possession and the wave of early pressure continued as Reus&&num;8217&semi; had a deflected effort that Hugo Lloris grabbed at the second attempt before Mario Gotze&&num;8217&semi;s shot from the edge of the area was blocked by Christian Eriksen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Premier League side will have taken comfort from the fact that Dortmund&&num;8217&semi;s desperation to score might leave holes at the back which they could exploit &&num;8211&semi; and that happened on the half-hour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It opened up for Eriksen in the middle of the park and he slid Son through on goal&period; The South Korean has a brilliant scoring record against Dortmund and would have expected to score but he stubbed his shot wide under pressure from defenders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e535128f">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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