Rose set to return as Spurs bid to bounce back

Danny Rose is in contention to return to the Totten ham team for tonight’ s Champions League clash at Borussia Dortmund.

Rose was left out of Mauricio Poch et tino’ ssqu ad for Saturday’s north London derby defeat by Arsenal and the manager was after wards forced to deny a rift with the player.

The England international, who Poch et tinos aid was left out at the Emirates for fitness reasons, is back in the squad for the Group H meeting at Signal Iduna Park.

“He’s doing well,” Pochettino said at the pre- match press conference.

“Today he’s going to train with the group and tomorrow we will decide if he will play.”

Tottenham are top of the pool, ahead of Real Madrid, with ten points from four games and have already qualified for the knock- out stage.

They will be keen to bounce back from the defeat by Arsenal, though, and Pochettino insists that loss has not knocked confidence.

“We are positive, very positive, because the performance was good, the effort was good,” he said.

“We can do better, of course.”

The Argentinian added: “The objective was to qualify and we’ve achieved that, and now it’s important to finish first if we can. It will be better if we can do that tomorrow.”