Tottenham supervisor Antonio Conte has insisted he’ll relish the stress setting on his return to work however known as on the remainder of the membership to embrace their season-defining second towards AC Milan on Wednesday.
Conte is again in London after spending the final two-and-a-half weeks recuperating in Turin together with his household following surgical procedure to take away his gallbladder final month.
The 53-year-old returns with Spurs reeling after exiting the FA Cup final week and having misplaced at Wolves on Saturday to wreck their hopes of one other top-four end.
Doctors ordered Conte to relaxation after the 1-0 defeat on the San Siro within the last-16 first leg on February 14 however the stakes can be even greater this week and whereas the Italian feels he can deal with the second of combating to achieve the Champions League quarter-finals, he posed the identical query to the membership.
“The pressure? We live for this type of game, we live for this type of moment because when the pressure is going up, it means your level is going up,” the Tottenham boss acknowledged.
“Don’t forget last season we play Conference League and instead this season we are playing Champions League. We won our group, the first leg we lost 1-0 and we have possibility tomorrow to beat Milan and then to go to the next round.
“I think for sure don’t forget the past and to understand we need to have step by step to improve the situation. Then if you ask me do I want to win the Champions League? I tell you yes but then there is reality.
“We have to be ready to go game by game. Tomorrow the obstacle is Milan and we have to beat them with two goals if we want to go to the next round. The pressure is normal and we have to live with this type of pressure.
“Maybe if there is one thing that we have to try to improve, the whole environment here, is to live with the pressure. To live with the pressure means to sometimes be a bit stressed and not always to be in peace with yourself, but to stress yourself and to put pressure in a positive way.
“I think that in this aspect we can improve a lot and the whole environment can improve a lot about this aspect.”