Venue: The Liberty Stadium Date: Saturday, March 30th Time: 3pm TV: N/A (Highlights on BBC1's Match of the Day at 22.30)
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Captain Michael Dawson has rallied his Tottenham team-mates to end their recent run of poor results and go on another unbeaten run to secure their place in next year's Champions League. After having gone 12 matches unbeaten, Spurs were odds-on to qualify for Europe's top club competition, but defeats against Liverpool and Fulham in their last 2 outings mean Spurs are now in danger of blowing their chances for a second successive year, with Everton and Arsenal creeping up on them. A defeat at Swansea, coupled with victory for Arsenal over Reading, will put the Gunners just one point behind their rivals with a game in hand. A loss will also give Villas-Boas the unwanted tag of being the first Spurs boss since David Pleat in 2004 to preside over a four-match losing run (including the Europa League 2nd leg loss to Inter Milan). The Portuguese manager was upbeat about his team's top-four prospects, though, and his captain echoed those sentiments yesterday. Everyone was disappointed with the result against Fulham but that's behind us now and we have to push on again, Dawson told Spurs TV Online. We showed exactly what we're capable of when we went on that unbeaten run and we've got to look to do something similar between now and the end of the season. We know it will be tough, but the determination is there. Today's game at Swansea would have looked like one of the toughest fixtures in the calendar earlier this season, but the Welsh club's victory in the Capital One Cup final last month means they have little to play for, as Europe is guaranteed already.
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