SPURS boss Juande Ramos insists he is not jealous of fellow North Londoners Arsenal, after their magnificent performance at the San Siro, writes James Randall.
Ramos thinks his side, who beat the Gunners in the Carling Cup semi -final with a similar kind of performance as the Gunners put on to become the first British club to beat AC Millan in their own backyard.
He said: "I liked the Arsenal game very much. They played magnificently and I think they deserved to go through. It didn't make me jealous at all."
Ramos added:"We won the semi-final of the Carling Cup with a similar type of football. I think the main thing is that the players believe they have the ability to play like that."
Spurs face PSV tonight in the last-16 of the UEFA Cup - a tournament that Ramos won last year with Seville - and the Spanish coach thinks keeping a clean sheet is key to qualifying.
He told the clubs official website: "Not letting in a goal at home guarantees the chance of going through by drawing or winning away. It will give us a very good chance of progressing.
"It is an important test for us to see what level we can get to in Europe. PSV have come from the Champions League and who are the league leaders in their country. I think it will show what chance we have in the competition."
Despite winning the Carling Cup with a 2 -1 victory over Chelsea - Spurs were beaten heavily by Birmingham in the league the following weekend.
After the game - that Tottenham lost 4-1 - Ramos revealed he reserved comment so as to avoid saying something he might have regretted.
"I like to say things to the players when I have thought about them and I am calm, not straight after such a hard result, because no doubt I might say things that later I would regret", he revealed He added that he didn't feel the defeat was caused by over exuberant celebrations by his Players after the Cup success.
He continued: "It hurt all of us to lose in the way we did at Birmingham but I don't think the way they celebrated after the final had anything to do with it."
After such a mediocre league performance the Spurs boss is desperate for his side to show an immediate response when they appear in Europe tonight.
He said: "I am hoping for a reaction. I need to know how the team behaves in a game of such importance. Europe is very difficult and all the games are complicated."
"We will be able to see after this game if the players have the ability to compete on this stage."
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