Source: Daily_Mail
Tottenham boss Redknapp insists Champions League is within reach
Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp insists his side are still in the racefor a Champions League place despite seeing the goals dry up in recentweeks. Liverpool and Manchester City have overtaken Spurs in the BarclaysPremier League, with Redknapp challenging his players to find thegoalscoring form they were in before Christmas. One or two more: Harry Redknapp hopes goals will come from other players TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC: All the latest news from across the webMARTIN SAMUEL MEETS GREAVSIE: He's England's most prolific goalscorer, but now he prefers to watching rugbyPavlyuchenko set for rare Spurs outing despite Harry Redknapp admitting rift'We have as good a chance as anyone else. We have goalscorers and you'd expect us to score,' Redknapp said. 'We just need one or two more to weigh in with a goal or two. 'Man City can't beat 10-man Stoke the other day and were lucky to get a draw. It's hard to win football matches. We're all struggling. Liverpool are clawing out results as you'd expect them to. 'We're not taking advantage of their slip-ups. Everyone is struggling to get wins. There are no easy games. Stoke, Bolton, wherever you go, there are no 'gimmes' in this division.' Spurs face Wigan tomorrow in a repeat of the fixture earlier in the season when Redknapp's men won 9-1. Five alive: Jermain Defoe smashed five goals against Wigan in a 9-1 victory last seasonRedknapp knows all about conceding nine after his first match as a manager, in charge of Bournemouth. He said: 'It wasn't a freak result when we lost 9-0. The team was just useless. We lost 5-0 the week after, so we did improve. 'The pitch was like an ice-skating rink - never ever playable. The only boots we had, because we were skint, were with long nylon studs. When they went for a kickabout they were all falling over. 'The Lincoln players had the new boots with the pimple studs. They were gliding around and I thought 'oh my god'. 'We were 8-0 down and we had a corner with half an hour to go. The old trainer John Kirk was shouting for our centre-backs to get up. I said "get up? What are we going to win 9-8?"'They got the ninth with 20 minutes to go and I thought 'this could be 15".' Redknapp has come a long way since his first match as a manager, with his finest moment coming when he won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008. Pompey have been in freefall since Redknapp's departure and their future still remains uncertain after four owners this season. 'They keep coming up with these people, saying this man's one of the richest Arabs in the world and this one's Sheikh somebody or other,' Redknapp said. 'Solomon someone or the other, sitting there eating a big hamburger with holes in his jeans. The next thing someone else comes in.' TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC: All the latest news from across the webMARTIN SAMUEL MEETS GREAVSIE: He's England's most prolific goalscorer, but now he prefers to watching rugbyPavlyuchenko set for rare Spurs outing despite Harry Redknapp admitting rift