Sutter: All the pressure on Spurs

24 August 2010 20:57
Young Boys defender Scott Sutter inists hosts Tottenham have "everything to lose" ahead of the Champions League play-off second leg.[LNB] Sutter will fulfil a boyhood dream when he runs out at White Hart Lane - although it will be against, rather than for, the team he grew up supporting.[LNB]But it will not be the first time the 24-year-old from Enfield has taken to the field there, having done so when he and his father were season-ticket holders in the 1990s.[LNB]Describing coming back to White Hart Lane as a player as "a special feeling", Sutter said: "I remember waiting behind the gates for autographs from players when I was there with my dad and I snuck into the stadium and got a piece of grass and kept it home for about three weeks."[LNB]Asked if he planned to bring some more turf back to Bern with him, Sutter added: "We'll see how the game goes first - maybe the ball."[LNB]Indeed, Sutter will have no qualms knocking Spurs out of Europe's premier club competition, having helped his side build a 3-2 first-leg lead last week.[LNB]He acknowledges they remain outsiders in the tie having squandered most of their 3-0 lead in the first leg, but said: "I don't think it's gone. I think everything's still open in the game.[LNB]"I think they've got more pressure than us first of all.[LNB]"We've got nothing to lose.[LNB]"They've got everything to lose.[LNB]"If we can get through the first 20-25 minutes without conceding a goal then I think we've got a fairly good chance."[LNB]And Sutter hopes Spurs take Young Boys lightly, just as he believes they did in the first leg.[LNB]"I definitely think they did underestimate us - I think it's understandable," he said.[LNB]"A lot of bigger teams we play underestimate us.[LNB]"I don't think the difference between a team like Tottenham - or a team in the top leagues - and a team in our league is that big anymore, and that's proved time and time again."[LNB]Sutter and his Young Boys team-mates' trip to London did not get off to the most auspicious start today when they arrived almost an hour late for their pre-match press conference.[LNB]Sutter revealed their taxi driver had got lost, despite insisting he knew where White Hart Lane was and that the squad resorted to getting on a double-decker bus in an attempt to get to the stadium.[LNB]The mishap is the sort that appears only to befall Europe's smaller sides.[LNB]But Young Boys are not concerned about the impression others - or Spurs - have of them.[LNB]Midfielder David Degen said: "Quite frankly, what Spurs think, I don't really care about it."[LNB]Those sentiments were echoed by manager Vladmir Petkovic, whose only injury absentees are Emiliano Dudar and Hassan Lingani.[LNB]

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