Olympiakos v Tottenham Hotspur: Mauricio Pochettino thought about Champions League final defeat ‘a lot’
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Manager Mauricio Pochettino says that he believed’debilitating’ Champions League final defeat’a lot’ during summer time as they prepare for their opening match of this year’s competition.
Spurs lost 2-0 in their Champions League final in June to Liverpool.
They begin their new European effort against Greek side Olympiakos in Piraeus on Wednesday (17:55 BST).
“It was a lengthy time following the closing in Madrid,” explained Pochettino.
“Being honest I was thinking a good deal during the summertime. To complete losing the closing is always painful because you can’t put the atmosphere and you will need to wait to start to fix the harm.
“It is exciting to start a new effort and now here in Greece. It is going to be an unbelievable atmosphere as well.”
Pochettino has played Tottenham’s chances of repeating last season’s Champions League run, which included a second leg victory away at Ajax .
In addition, he says the club have to learn lessons from the poor start at the group stage last year, in which they shot only 1 point from their opening three games.
“No-one now is believing or giving us opportunity to be a competition to become in the final in Istanbul this year,” added that the Argentine, who’ll take charge of his 50th European match for Tottenham in Greece.
“But that’s normal. This makes it again exciting, our run at the Champions League.
“We know we have to begin by winning. You can speak but you need to reveal your quality. We need to show we’ve learned from the past.”
Defenders Danny Rose along with Serge Aurier happen to be rested and didn’t go with the squad, with Pochettino saying he will make changes to the side which beat Crystal Palace 4-0 last weekend.
Ryan Sessegnon also didn’t journey after reporting aggravation with a previous hamstring strain while fellow summer signing Giovani Lo Celso is out until at least the end of October with a hip injury.
Juan Foyth is back in training but is not anticipated to return to activity for the following few weeks.
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