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Ange Postecoglou's dream of ending a wretched season for Tottenham with a piece of silverware is still alive after Spurs put on a polished, professional performance in Norway to beat FK Bodø/Glimt 2-0 and book a place in an all-English Europa League final.

Spurs' 5-1 semifinal aggregate win has set them up with a mouth-watering finale to a troubled season as they'll play Manchester United in the one-off decider after the fellow Premier League strugglers beat Athletic Bilbao 4-1 at Old Trafford for a 7-1 aggregate win.

The final will be in Bilbao, Spain on May 21 with Postecoglou having a chance to maintain his proud assertion that he always wins a trophy in his second year in any managerial job.

It looked a tough assignment in the Arctic Circle for Spurs, who led 3-1 after the first home leg but had to contend with a team that has become one of the romantic favourites in the tournament and is awfully hard to beat on its own plastic pitch as many European luminaries have discovered.

But two goals in six minutes just after the hour from Dominic Solanke and Pedro Porro were enough to underline Spurs' superiority, with Postecoglou's job prospects at the club having been given a major boost.

"Couldn't be prouder of the lads," Postecoglou said after the game.

"We knew it was a difficult place to come. We're aware of the record they have here, the pitch. I think the lads handled it well. Excited, we're in a final.

"We've grown in maturity and we understand exactly what's required. I think that's where we won the game. We kept them to a minimum in the first half and did what we needed to do.

"We've used every player in the squad. We've overcome adversity. I felt when we got into the knockout, it helped we got players back."

Postecoglou also paid tribute to the Spurs fans who have stuck by him in a difficult season.

"It's why you do what we do," he said.

"You understand the context of what this football club has been trying to achieve for quite a while. Managers and players come and go but the supporters are a constant. There were 400 here tonight and maybe a few more snuck in and many more at home. I hope we gave them something to smile about.

"We'll just keep doing what we're doing."

Tottenham will play Manchester United in the Europa League final on Thursday, May 22 at 5am (AEST). Join ABC Sport's Simon Smale as he live blogs all the action.

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou accepts the general feeling within English football is that he will be be ditched as manager even if he steers the Spurs to victory in the Europa League.

On the eve of his potentially make-or-break quarterfinal tie against Eintracht Frankfurt, Postecoglou sounded almost resigned to that narrative at Spurs as he reflected on what he believes is a continuing "negative" agenda against the club.

But the Australian is adamant nothing is going to stop his "burning ambition, desire and determination" to lead Spurs to success whatever the doomsayers are predicting for him.

Amid their poor Premier League campaign, the speculation about Postecoglou's position has only mounted week on week, leaving the widespread prediction that success in Europe's second-tier competition is his only chance of saving his job.

But on the eve of Frankfurt visiting the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the quarterfinal first leg, it was Postecoglou who brought up the subject of a British national newspaper article which suggested would be out of a job with Spurs even if they won in Europe.

"Someone wrote that even if we win it, I'm gone anyway," he told reporters on Wednesday.

"That's not having a go at you, that's just saying the general sentiment of people. So if you're trying to use that as a motivation [to win the Europa League], you're not going to win that anyway.

"I came to this club with a clear purpose and vision of what the club needed and what I could offer.

"That is to change the way the team plays, to obviously rejuvenate the squad because it was a squad that was coming towards the end of a cycle and to bring success.

"As long as I'm in this position, that's always my focus, irrespective of whatever noise there is or what there may or not be in the future.

"I don't see that that should diminish my burning ambition, my desire and my determination to make that happen.

"Anything you achieve in life usually comes with a struggle. Certainly, everything I have achieved in my life has come with a struggle from a professional perspective.

"This is just another struggle, but never through this struggle have I lost the will to fight for what I think is the right thing to do and I'll continue to do that."

His feeling of an anti-Spurs agenda was highlighted at the weekend when, after their win over Southampton, the spotlight was turned on Mathys Tel taking their stoppage-time penalty rather than letting Brennan Johnson attempt to complete a hat-trick.

"I just think we're in that position now where even the good stuff we do is going to be turned into a glass-half-empty rhetoric," Postecoglou said.

"The one slight against this club is that it hasn't been a winner. The winners' mentality in the last minute is to score. We scored and, somehow, in this alternate universe, everything Tottenham does is negative."

For their tough tie against a side that lies third in the Bundesliga, Spurs will not have Dejan Kulusevski, who is out with a foot injury, but they are boosted by being able to field nearly a fully fit squad.