Tottenham’s boss, Ange Postcoglou, says he doesn’t regret declaring that he is still winning a trophy in his second season in a club.
The hopes of the Argent-Argenne Spurs are based on the Europa League after being eliminated both the Carabao Cups and the FA last month.
And the club of northern London is 1-0 late on Az Alkmaar in the past 16 times, with work to be done in the return leg on Thursday.
But Postcoglou does not feel the pressure and says that his team is always able to safeguard his assertion that he wins during his second term.
Speaking before the Alkmaar match, he said: “No, no additional pressure. We were obviously disappointed with our performance in the first leg. The important thing is that we did not return the tie impossible for us to come back, it is always very tight.
“They have the advantage of objective but playing at home, if we can play with the intensity and the tempo that we have done on the weekend, I think we will have the opportunity to progress.
“If we are progressing, we will have another big challenge in the next round. The goal is to achieve a strong performance tomorrow evening.
“My opinion has always been when you are asked something, you answer it. I don’t invent anything, I answered a question.
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“People used it for their own ends suggesting that I was making a daring complaint. I just said a fact. If this does not happen, then I can’t say that next year, right? People can twist these things, they can use them.
“If we win a trophy this season, some people could say” Oh is it not good that he did this after having made such a daring affirmation “. This was not the case. People will simply use it as they wish in the circumstances. I will always answer questions in the way I am comfortable.
A quick release in the Europa League would leave the Australian in a very sticky situation at Spurs.
With the club’s extremely poor premier form and preventing them from qualifying for Europe next season, the whole campaign is at their exploits in Europe.
And when they were asked if he could lose his job if the Spurs do not progress, he replied: “There are not many professions where you have to come and answer questions like that, right?
“I will be polite and I will say to look at that we focus on the victory of the match tomorrow evening. We have to put better performance than last Thursday. It was not close to the standard we want to play.
“We have done good things on weekends, others not so good. If we can play with the intensity and the tempo that we played on the weekend, we will give ourselves a good chance of progressing. »»
