PSV on top as Spurs come calling

PSV Eindhoven hold a strong advantage in a battle of former UEFA Cup winners with Tottenham Hotspur FC trailing 1-0 as they prepare for action in the Netherlands.

• Tottenham are on the hunt for a third UEFA Cup, having won the competition in 1971/72 and 1983/84 while PSV claimed the trophy in 1977/78.

• Jefferson Farfán scored the only goal of the game as Tottenham failed to make possession count in the first leg. It was their second UEFA Cup home defeat this season, having previously gone over 20 years without losing a UEFA competition game at White Hart Lane.

• Despite their strong European pedigree, Tottenham and PSV had never met in European competition prior to last week. However, they met in a pre-season friendly at White Hart Lane on 3 August 2003, with goals from Ji-Sung Park and Arjen Robben giving PSV a 2-0 win.

• Having beaten Chelsea FC 2-1 after added time in the English League Cup final on 24 February, Tottenham are already certain of a return to the UEFA Cup next year.

• Spurs have played in eleven UEFA club competition games against Dutch opposition, winning five, drawing three and losing three. Their five previous two-leg ties ended in three overall wins for Tottenham and two defeats. Their five away games in the Netherlands have produced three wins and two defeats.

• Eight of Tottenham's eleven European games against Dutch sides have been against Feyenoord. They beat them 4-2 on aggregate in the first round of the 1961/62 European Champion Clubs' Cup, but then lost to the Rotterdam side by the same scoreline in the 1973/74 UEFA Cup final.

• Spurs avenged that defeat in the second round of the 1983/84 UEFA Cup, winning 6-2 on aggregate en route to winning the competition, but Feyenoord had the upper hand again in the quarter-finals of the 1991/92 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, winning 1-0 on aggregate.

• The two sides were set to meet again in last season's UEFA Cup Round of 32 but Tottenham were give a bye to the next round after Feyenoord were disqualified from the competition as punishment for crowd problems.

• Tottenham's only European tie against a Dutch club other than Feyenoord or PSV saw them meet AFC Ajax in the first round of the 1981/82 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Spurs won 3-1 in Amsterdam and 3-0 at White Hart Lane to complete a 6-1 triumph.

• Tottenham's Spanish coach Juande Ramos remains hopeful of winning a third successive UEFA Cup, having claimed the previous two as coach of Sevilla FC.

• Ramos' Sevilla lost 2-1 at home against PSV's Eredivisie rivals AZ Alkmaar in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage in what was the coach's only previous game against Dutch opposition. PSV's former AZ striker Danny Koevermans did not play in that match, however.

• Sef Vergoossen has been placed in charge of PSV for the remainder of the season, at which point he will be replaced by Hamburger SV's Huub Stevens. The 60-year-old, who took over following Ronald Koeman's move to Valencia CF, previously coached VVV Venlo, Roda JC, KRC Genk, Al-Jazira Club and Nagoya Grampus Eight.

• Tottenham's Ivorian midfielder Didier Zokora played under Vergoossen at Genk prior to joining AS Saint-Etienne in 2004. He won the Belgian title with Genk under Vergoossen in 2001/02.

• PSV have played 27 games against English sides in UEFA club competition, winning nine, drawing seven and losing eleven. Those matches included eight two-leg knockout ties, of which PSV won four and lost four. At home, their record in 13 games against English side reads won five, drawn five and lost three.

• While PSV had never played Tottenham prior to this season, they have met their north London rivals Arsenal six times in the last six years. In the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League first group stage, they lost 4-0 at home against the Gunners but drew 0-0 in the return at Highbury.

• Two seasons later, the two sides were drawn together again in the group stage, with PSV losing 1-0 in London and drawing 1-1 at home.

• However, all previous defeats were avenged in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League first knockout round, as Edison Méndez's goal gave them a 1-0 lead in the home leg which they preserved with a 1-1 draw at the Arsenal Stadium, with Brazilian defender Alex – now in London with Chelsea FC – scoring at both ends.

• Tottenham's Korean left-back Lee Young-Pyo joined the club from PSV in the summer of 2005. He won league titles in the Netherlands with PSV in 2002/03 and 2004/05 as well as the Dutch Cup in the latter campaign.

• PSV's Jan Kromkamp has experience of English football, having played for Liverpool FC for around six months in the latter part of the 2005/06 season before joining PSV. He came on as a substitute in the Reds dramatic 2005/06 FA Cup final win against West Ham United FC. Liverpool won 3-1 on penalties after a 3-3 draw.

• PSV defender Alcides and Tottenham's Ricardo Rocha played together at Benfica before moving on to their respective clubs. The pair won the Liga title together in 2004/05.

• During a brief loan spell at Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2005/06, PSV forward Danko Lazović – then contracted to Feyenoord – played alongside Tottenham's Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov.

• Tottenham's Berbatov, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Jermaine Jenas and Jamie O'Hara are all within a booking of a one-match suspension. The same goes for PSV's Dirk Marcellis, Farfán and Lazović.

• PSV beat Helsingborgs IF 4-1 on aggregate in the Round of 32 after moving into the competition with a third-placed finish in their UEFA Champions League group. Tottenham finished second in UEFA Cup Group G and then beat SK Slavia Praha 3-2 on aggregate in the first knockout round.

• The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the UEFA Cup will be held at UEFA HQ in Nyon on 14 March at 14.00CET.