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Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou says he doesn’t remorse stating that he all the time wins a trophy in his second season at a membership.
Spurs’ hopes of silverware hinge on the Europa League having been knocked out of each the Carabao and FA Cups final month.
And the North London membership discover themselves 1-0 down on combination to AZ Alkmaar within the last-16, with work to do within the return leg on Thursday.
However Postecoglou shouldn’t be feeling the strain and says his aspect are nonetheless able to backing up his declare that he wins in his second time period.
Talking forward of the Alkmaar recreation, he mentioned: “No, no additional strain. We have been clearly disillusioned with our efficiency within the first leg. The vital factor is we didn’t make the tie unattainable for us to get again into, it’s nonetheless very tight.
“They’ve acquired the objective benefit however taking part in at residence, if we will play with the depth and tempo that we did within the weekend then I believe we may have a chance to progress.
“Ought to we progress we may have one other massive problem within the subsequent spherical. The main target is to place in a powerful efficiency tomorrow night time.
“My view has all the time been whenever you’re requested one thing, you reply it. I wasn’t making something up, I answered a query.
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“Folks have used it for their very own functions suggesting I used to be making a daring declare. I used to be simply stating a reality. If that doesn’t occur, then I can’t say that any extra subsequent 12 months, can I? Folks can twist this stuff, they’ll use them.
“If we do win a trophy this season then some folks may say ‘oh isn’t it good that he did that after making such a daring declare’. It wasn’t. Folks will simply use it the way in which they need to regardless of the circumstances. I’ll all the time reply questions in the way in which I’m comfy.”
A swift exit within the Europa League would go away the Australian in a really sticky state of affairs at Spurs.
With the membership’s extraordinarily poor Premier League type and stopping them from qualifying for Europe subsequent season, your complete marketing campaign is all the way down to their exploits in Europe.
And when requested whether or not he could lose his job if Spurs fail to progress, he replied: “There aren’t many professions the place you must are available and reply questions like that, is there?
“I’ll be well mannered and say look we’re targeted on profitable the sport tomorrow night time. We have to put in a greater efficiency than final Thursday. That wasn’t close to the usual we need to play.
“We did some good issues on the weekend, some not so good issues. If we will play with the depth and tempo we performed on the weekend, we’ll give ourselves an excellent likelihood to progress.”
