I’ll get us a gong before I am gone
RB LEIPZIG v TOTTENHAM
JOSE MOURINHO has promised to end Spurs’ trophy drought.
The Portuguese insists he will prove he has not lost his magic touch even though he admits he faces a huge task in turning around their last-16 Champions League tie.
Lilywhites boss Mourinho has won the European Cup twice, Europa League, three Premier League titles and trophies abroad in a glittering career with Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Manchester United.
But he knows he is under pressure at the north London club who brought him in to deliver silverware as they have not won anything since the League Cup in 2008.
Mourinho, who signed a threeand-a-half-year contract until 2023, said: “I believe Spurs is not going to be my only club without silverware. I won it at every club and I believe I am going to do it also with Tottenham.
“I am here for three or four months. I got the team in a difficult situation but I believe in me, in the players, in the club and I believe that during my contract I will help the club to do it.”
Mourinho has been dealt another huge injury blow after ruling £26million January signing Steven Bergwijn out for the rest of the season after he suffered a sprained left ankle at Burnley on Saturday.
Spurs trail 1-0 from the first leg and Mourinho said the players must embrace the club’s To Dare Is To Do motto tonight and be brave and attack RB Leipzig despite being big underdogs.
Spurs are renowned for their ambition of winning with style but Mourinho insisted his philosophy delivers success even if there is no escape from the club’s vision.
He said: “To dare is to do? I read it every day because it’s written everywhere at the training ground and of course it is.
“You know more or less my principles, my philosophy, what I love and hate. Yes I feel connection with to dare is to do.
“And tomorrow is a time to give everything. We win or we leave everything we have on that pitch. It’s good to take risks.”