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PostHeaderIcon Tottenham will play the final League Cup with Manchester United

The score in the first 90 minutes of Burnley-Tottenham was 3-0 but Roman Pavlyuchenko and  Jermain Defoe scored late in extra time to send defending champion Tottenham into the final of English soccer’s League Cup.

Tottenham will play the final League Cup with Manchester United.

The goals gave Tottenham a 6-4 win over Burnley in the semifinal match.

Pavlyuchenko scored with two minutes remaining in extra time at Burnley and Defoe clinched the victory 1 minutes later.

If Tottenham not scored in extra time, Burnley would have gone to the final for the first time because it scored in the first game.

The coach Harry Redknapp(Tottenham) said:“I thought we were dead and buried,”, “You’re thinking, ‘What do we do?’ but we showed character and we came back.”

The final League Cup will play on March 1 at Wembley Stadium.