The Fiver | Places up for grabs at the very top of European football’s top table

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With 12 teams already through to the knockout stages of Big Cup, there are just four more places up for grabs at the very top of European football’s top table. If Spurs are to snaffle one, they will have to complete the relatively routine task of beating Barcelona away from home, a feat they have never managed in one previous attempt. That was back in 1982 when Danish midfielder Alan Simonsen, who had previously – and rather weirdly – been the unwitting target of a sniper in Danish movie thriller named Skytten, scored the only goal of the game to send the Spanish side through to the final of Now Defunct Cup Winners’ Pot in 1982. In Christian Eriksen and Harry Kane, modern-day Spurs have their own diminutive Danish maestro and crack marksman and their supporters will be hoping both men have their eye in on Tuesday. If Inter beat PSV, as many expect them to, only a win will do for Spurs if they are to join their hosts in Uefa’s tombola for the last-16 draw.

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