Liverpool and Tottenham meet in a Champions League final for the ages, and the match will come down to which team can pull off one more miracle

While Tottenham doesn't have a rallying cry as well known as Liverpool, the club holds a similar refrain as its motto — "To Dare Is To Do."

It's a fittingly zen turn of phrase to employ as a guiding principle in a sport that can toggle between beauty and chaos with such speed as soccer, asking the club and its players for their best effort and faith that it will be rewarded.

Tottenham didn't enter the second leg of their Champions League semifinal in as dire straits as Liverpool, trailing Ajax just 1-0 after their first contest in London.

But on enemy soil, Spurs were caught sleeping early, allowing two goals in the first half to put them down 3-0 on aggregate at halftime.

With maestro Harry Kane still out with an injury, scoring three goals in the final frame felt all but impossible, but Lucas Moura rose to the challenge.

Moura scored two goals in five minutes just after the start of the second half, putting Spurs one miracle goal away from the unlikeliest Champions League final pairing in recent memory.

In the 96th minute, one what was likely Tottenham's final opportunity at an offensive charge, Moura once again broke through, sending Spurs into hysterics and the Ajax crowd into despair.

It was the type of comeback that is unfathomable until you watch it happen — and an outcome you refuse to believe possible in order to protect yourself from developing a false hope.

Ask any fan, and they'd likely call it a miracle, but it all stemmed from belief — from Moura and the rest of the squad. To dare is to do.

In any other final, one of these teams would be deemed to have destiny on their side.

Destiny doesn't necessarily lead to triumph, but it does help to frame things narratively — either the side of destiny climbs the mountain to complete the unthinkable, or the plucky upstart is unable to find that one last stroke of luck necessary to take down their opposing powerhouse.

But Saturday will be different. Because of how both teams reached this point, both clubs and their fans have every reason to believe that this is their year.

For Liverpool, lifting the Champions League trophy would be a wholly fitting conclusion to one of the greatest domestic seasons in the history of the Premier League that just happened to run into another historically great team.

For Tottenham, a Champions League title would be a final release after years of being considered merely a capable also-ran. Bringing the most coveted piece of hardware in European soccer home would be the end of any unfortunate collapse being referred to as "Spursy," reclaiming the term as a thing of glory.

We're guaranteed a storybook ending for one side on Saturday, but the situation also ensures that one club's year will end in heartbreak and the lingering question of whether or not they'll be able to make it back to the Champions League final after it took such a Herculean effort to get there this year.

Either way, it should be an unforgettable match.

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