Rodgers relishing Spurs test

Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers is relishing his side’s away trip to Tottenham and has praised the north London club ahead of Sunday’s clash.

Rodgers’ team have performed above all expectations in their first season in the Premier League and face a Spurs side who have endured a poor run of late.

“We’re up against one of the top teams in the ­country, some of the top players in the world,” Rodgers told The Sunday Mirror.

“We’re playing in a stadium renowned over the ­decades for the quality of the football played there. Who wouldn’t enjoy that?”

Swansea lost at home to Everton last weekend but Rodgers still saw positives in the defeat.

“David Moyes called the victory ‘massive’ after the game. And he’s the vastly experienced manager of one of the truly big clubs,” he said.

“We’re little Swansea City. To regard beating us as massive just shows how far we’ve come.

“That was a very important game for us, because it showed my players they could match the best teams.”

Rodgers highlighted the point picked up against Spurs earlier in the season which came during a fantastic run for the London club.

He said: “Tottenham were on a run then, probably the best team in the country at the time. To hold them – and to deserve to have won the game – showed we had nothing to fear.”

The Northern Irish also defended Tottenham’s recent form and insists that speculation linking Harry Redknapp with the England vacancy is not to blame for their winless run of five Premier League matches.

“People have suggested that they went on to have a bit of a sticky patch because players were unsettled at the likelihood of losing their manager,” Rodgers said.

“But I don’t buy that. Players are used to change.

“They’ve shown signs of coming out of it in the last two games anyway.

“We know they’ll come out with all guns blazing. But they’ll play football – and my players will respond.”