VIDEO:Bayern Munich Vrs Tottanham

• Spurs rode their luck early on, and then Kingsley Coman opened scoring for the home side inside 15 minutes
• In his first Champions League start, Ryan Sessegnon then pulled Spurs level when he rifled past Manuel Neuer
• Thomas Muller, off the bench for the injured Coman, then put Bayern ahead again on the stroke of half-time
• Philippe Coutinho then rattled in a third from outside the box to put the game beyond doubt for the Germans 
• Champions League last-16 draw: Date, time and channel plus who can Premier League sides face? 

Fortunately for Tottenham that is the last they will see of Bayern Munich and Serge Gnabry for a while.

They cannot meet again before the quarter-finals and if Spurs still are in the Champions League when the spring comes around then Jose Mourinho will be doing something right.

By that time Mourinho will also have had time to impress his style more firmly upon these players and they will surely not be so fragile at the back.

Gnabry, who scored four in a 7-2 mauling in London in October, did not find the net in Munich but the former Arsenal winger teased and tormented the Tottenham defence.

He had a hand in the first two goals scored by Kingsley Coman and Thomas Muller and hit a post. Philippe Coutinho scored the third to take Bayern into double figures against Spurs in two Group B games.

They are struggling in the Bundesliga this season but the German champions have looked a class above Tottenham as they became only the seventh team to win all six group games in the modern format of the competition.

Positives for Mourinho included a promising full debut and fine goal by Ryan Sessegnon and flickers of threat on the counter-attack. But mostly the fact some of his key players were able to take the night off and they did not concede seven.

Tottenham’s fate as runners-up in Group B was sealed more than two weeks ago. Six points from the two games against Red Star Belgrade and four points from Olympiacos was enough to secure progress despite the thrashing at the hands of Bayern in London.

They will face one of five teams in the next round and will be hoping it is Valencia, rather than Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, RB Leipzig or Barcelona when the draw for the last 16 is made on Monday.

Mourinho insisted there was plenty to play for, in terms of opportunities for fringe players and a chance for them to start to understand his system.

He rested players, including Harry Kane and Dele Alli while Bayern opted to play without Robert Lewandowski.

There was a first start as a Spurs player for Sessegnon who was signed for £25million from Fulham in the summer but has been frustrated by hamstring problems and limited to three appearances as a substitute before Wednesday night.

Sessegnon almost scored within four minutes. He was released by Christian Eriksen, his electric pace in evidence as he sprinted clear of the red shirts but he could not beat Manuel Neuer, firing his shot into the arms of the goalkeeper.

Bayern responded. An effort by Benjamin Pavard was kept out by a combination of Paulo Gazzaniga and Toby Alderweireld on the goal line.

Gazzaniga clutched gratefully at the follow-up shot, not caught sweetly by Thiago Alcantara, before he was beaten by Coman who collected a deflected pass from Gnabry and applied a cool finish.

Coman was soon to hobble off injured, after he slipped and appeared to twist a knee where the turf meets the artificial surface surrounding the pitch.

By the time he went off, Spurs were level through Sessegnon who picked up a pass from Giovani Lo Celso and beat Neuer at his near post with a ferocious strike from an angle.

The contest was wide open with Bayern committed to attack and yet vulnerable to the Tottenham counter attack which is flourishing under Mourinho.

Moussa Sissoko burst clear only failing to produce either find a team-mate or fashion anything resembling an effort at goal. Then Gnabry rattled a post and Thiago missed a sitter as he somehow turned the rebound wide of the empty goal from only a couple of yards out.

Muller made no mistake when a similar chance fell to him moments later after pressure invited by a poor goal kick by Gazzaniga. Gnabry caused damage as he wriggled past Danny Rose and Alphonso Davies fired against a post.

This time the ball flashed out to Muller and he turned it into the goal.

Bayern at times were irresistible and were close to a third before the interval when Coutinho unleashed a shot from long range which crashed into the bar, down onto the line and out.

Spurs were wobbling. Mourinho may have banned his players from watching any re-runs of the 7-2 defeat at White Hart Lane but he must have wondered if they were heading for another hammering.

They needed the sanctuary of half-time and it brought them relief. The second half was disjointed and played with less intensity but still Bayern dominated and Coutinho deserved his goal, a low curling shot past the dive of Gazzaniga.