OUNDBITE (English): Mauricio Pochettino, Tottenham Hotspur manager:

"Well it is still too far (away) to talk about winning a trophy. I think we need to win tomorrow against Rochdale. It's such an important game. The competition is there. If we want to go further, tomorrow we need to win and to go to the next stage but I think it's too early to start to talk if we're going to have the possibility to try to win (the FA Cup) the trophy because tomorrow we have to win."

SOUNDBITE (English): Mauricio Pochettino, Tottenham Hotspur manager:

"No I don't believe this. I think, like it was against Newport, it is always difficult. Manchester City against Wigan, different Premier League teams that have struggled to compete in a difficult circumstances. It's so difficult to explain but the reality is that the FA Cup is a competition that is a very difficult competition because it increases the level of the lower (ranked) opponents and the motivation and everything and sometimes this situation happens."

SOUNDBITE (English): Mauricio Pochettino, Tottenham Hotspur manager:

"In our situation, we can be involved until the end of the season and I think that the most important thing is to keep going well, be consistent in our results in the Premier League and try to win games. That is the most important thing but surely in the last (push), there are still ten games until the end, we need to be consistent to be in the top four at the end of the season and there is a lot of work to do."