Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp delighted with his team’s UEFA Champions League journey
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has revealed that he is proud of his team’s efforts in the 2010-11 UEFA Champions League despite being knocked out of the competition.
Tottenham lost 1-0 to Real Madrid in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final at White Hart Lane on 13 April, 2011. The Spurs lost 5-0 on aggregate as they had lost the first leg 4-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on 5 April.
However, Redknapp believes that the Lilywhites were superb in their debut season of the competition. They topped the group ahead of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Twente-c39233. They went onto beat AC Milan in the round of 16 to qualify for the quarter-finals
against the record nine-time competition winners, Real Madrid.
Redknapp said, “It's been amazing. It's been a great season. Champions League football, last-eight of the Champions League, we've got to push on from here. What we have do in the next few years is make sure that Tottenham build a team that can challenge
every year and get in the Champions League.”
“There is no good doing it once and not doing it again. You have to keep improving. You need to tweak your squad to keep doing it. That's what we want, like Arsenal, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 and Man United do every year. There is no reason why Tottenham can't do that,” added
the Spurs boss.
Redknapp wants his team to qualify for the competition on a consistent basis as Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal do. He believes that Tottenham have all the potential of doing it every season as they have some world-class players in their ranks.
Tottenham’s chances of making it to Champions League for the next season are in serious doubt as they are placed fifth on the Premier League table and are three points behind fourth placed Manchester City.
After the Champions League exit, Redknapp has urged his team to concentrate their energies on securing a fourth place finish in the Premier League.
With seven matches left to play in the League, the Spurs boss has full confidence in his team that they can finish fourth spot at the end of the season.
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