Walker eyes Europa prize

Kyle Walker insists Tottenham are serious about winning the Europa League.

Spurs go into Thursday’s clash against Maribor with three draws from three games in the competition, while a shock 1-0 home defeat to Wigan on Saturday suggests they are struggling to find form.

However, the 22-year-old right-back feels it is a privilege to feature in a European competition, and thinks Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas would also like to win the trophy he first claimed with Porto.

“Some people aren’t even on Channel Five on Thursday nights, so (the Europa League) is definitely something I want to win on a personal level and I am sure the lads and the gaffer want to do as well,” Walker told reporters.

Group J is finely balanced with Lazio, Panathinaikos, Spurs and Thursday’s Slovenian opponents all separated by just three points, but Walker believes all of the sides are beatable.

He continued: “No disrespect to them, but these are all winnable games.

“With the players we have in our team – we have world-class internationals – we can win this one, go to Lazio and give them a good game, and beat Panathinaikos and the table will look good come the end of it.”