Tottenham -Baas Ange Postecoglou says he doesn’t regret that he always wins a trophy in his second season in a club.
The hope of Spurs on Zilververtren on the Europa League was beaten from both the Carabao and the FA Cups last month.
And the North London club is 1-0 on aggregated to AZ Alkmaar in the last 16, with work to do in the return bone on Thursday.
But Postecoglou does not feel the pressure and says that his side is still able to support his claim that he will win in his second term.
Speaking for the Alkmaar game, he said: “No, no extra pressure. We were clearly disappointed about our performance in the first stage. The most important thing is that we have not made the draw for us impossible to go back in again, it is still very tight.
“They have the goal advantage, but play at home, if we can play with the intensity and pace we did at the weekend, then I think we get the chance to make progress.
“If we make progress, we will have a big challenge in the next round. The focus is to put a strong performance tomorrow night.
“My opinion has always been when you are asked something, you answer it. I did not come up with anything, I answered a question.
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“People used it for their own purposes that suggest that I made a daring claim. I just explained a fact. If that doesn’t 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 can say:” Oh, it’s not nice that he did that after he had made such a daring claim “. It wasn’t. People will just use it the way they want, whatever the circumstances are. I will always answer questions as I feel comfortable.”
A quick exit in the Europa League would leave the Australian in a very sticky situation in Spurs.
With the extremely poor Premier League form of the club and prevent them from being eligible for Europe next season, the entire campaign is due to their exploits in Europe.
And when asked if he can lose his job if Spurs does not progress, he replied: “There are not many professions where you should come in and answer such questions, is there?
“I will be polite and say that we have focused on winning the game tomorrow night. We have to do a better performance than last Thursday. That was not close to the standard that we want to play.
“We did some good things on the weekend, some not so good things. If we can play with the intensity and pace that we played at the weekend, we will give ourselves a good chance to make progress. “
