Bale: I believe in miracles

Tottenham winger Gareth Bale has not given up hope of making the last four of the Champions League despite heading into Wednesday's quarter-final second leg trailing Real Madrid 4-0. Spurs' aspirations of extending their debut run in Europe's premier club competition were severely dented by last Tuesday's heavy defeat at the Bernabeu, but Bale has called for optimism ahead of the White Hart Lane encounter. The 21-year-old said in Marca: "Anything is possible in football. This sport's history is full of incredible, crazy games. "Madrid lost 4-0 at Anfield not so long ago. Why can't we do it ourselves? We are going to try and we're not going to give up. It's an almost impossible challenge, but we're going to play and see what happens. "Hopefully we can produce the miracle. We need to be optimistic. We're going to go out to win from the start."

Source: PA