Tottenham's 2020 Champions League hopes are boosted after sixth place in Serie A

Tottenham Hotspur are looking forward to the Champions League final against Liverpool on 1 June, but their hopes for European glory in 2019/20 have been raised even before the ball is kicked.

The last weekend of the Serie A was held Sunday. Atalanta and Inter Milan finished third and fourth, qualifying for the Champions League next season.

Roma, sixth before the last round of matches, still had an outside chance to finish fourth and qualify for the best club competition in Europe.

But Inter's 2-1 victory over Empoli and Atalanta's 3-1 victory over Sassuolo allowed Roma to remain sixth, despite her 2-1 win over Parma, and she will now have to settle for a place in Europa League.

If Claudio Ranieri's team had managed to sneak into the top four thanks to a series of unlikely results, it would have meant that Tottenham would have been in pot 3 of the draw for the League of Nations group stages. champions next season.

This is explained by the higher UEFA team coefficient of the Italian team compared to that of North London. I Giallorossi reached the semifinal in 2017/18, where he was beaten by Liverpool.

However, due to the inability of the Italians to qualify, the Spurs now have the guarantee of being in pot 2 as early as the draw of the month of August and confronting them theoretically with weaker opponents in the group stage.

The team of Mauricio Pochettino could even be promoted to pot 1 if she beat Liverpool in Madrid, the winners being sure to be in the lead, alongside the champions of the six best European leagues and the winners of the Europa League.

Up to now, this would include Barcelona, ​​Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Zenith St. Petersburg, Bayern Munich, Juventus, one of the cities of Chelsea or Arsenal, and one Spurs or Liverpool.

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