Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino hailed the importance of breaking the Wembley drought as they finished their Champions League campaign with a 3-1 win over CSKA Moscow.
Spurs had not won at the national stadium in six games and defeats to Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen in their first two home Group E fixtures put paid to any realistic hopes of progressing to the knockout stages.
However efforts from Dele Alli, Harry Kane and an Igor Akinfeev own goal earned an important win and sent Pochettino's men into the Europa League.
And with Spurs playing all of their home games under the arch next season as their new stadium at White Hart Lane is built, Pochettino knew it was important to enjoy the winning feeling there.
He said: "I am happy. The performance was good, the fact that we won here was important for us, to change that feeling that we had after Monaco and Leverkusen was important and I think we are much better, we are playing better and starting to show our real quality.
"We need to look ahead and continue to play more games here to make Wembley our home, that is very important.
"We need to improve, we need more consistency and that is the challenge for the next few years."
The win, which came despite them falling behind to Alan Dzagoev's opener, secured third spot in their group and a place in the Europa League.
Pochettino is happy that his players will get to continue playing in Europe this season.
He said: "I think the Europa League is very important going forward, it is a great competition. It is not a consolation because in the last few years Tottenham have been playing in the Europa League.
"I am disappointed because after fighting a lot last season to play Champions League, we can feel disappointed but it is not a consolation because it is a great competition and to have the possibility to win an important competition in Europe is good."
CSKA Moscow manager Leonid Slutsky, who had been in control of the Russian club since 2009, announced on Tuesday that the game at Wembley would be his last in charge but he was not interested in talking about his departure.
He said: "It was very hard, we had lots of missing players and even though we scored the first goal, I can blame (the defeat) on the missing players.
"Because of these missing players it is very hard to compete in the Champions League.
"It is much easier to compete in our national league than in Europe.
"The only thing I can say is that I am disappointed. I cannot talk about the general things, only how I feel about the game tonight."
Source: PA
