DANNY ROSE insists Tottenham must not play scared against Lionel Messi.
The Argentinian superstar rolls up with Barcelona for a Champions League glamour clash on Wednesday.
England full back Rose cant wait, saying: Everyone wants to be involved. Messi is my favourite player and even if Im not playing Id be excited just to watch him.
We are all spurring each other on for this on we are all looking forward to the game and its a big occasion for the club.
But Rose stresses there can be no fear factor, saying: The manager has said that there is nothing you can do to stop Messi. You just have to go out and enjoy it.
The manager wont want us to go out there being scared of him. Its an experience we should all want to enjoy. And it is a game we all feel we can go out there and win.
Tottenham v Barcelona: Preview, kick-off time, TV channel and live streamIf we start well as a team we can pen Barcelona back. Its not just Messi. We cant just be thinking about Messi.
They have a world class front three and all of them are to be feared if we are not on our game on Wednesday.
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Mauricio Pochettinos men stunned eventual winners Real Madrid last season, drawing 11 away and winning 31 at home.
Rose stresses: We were unlucky not to win in the Bernabeu and we outplayed them at Wembley. Not just them, Dortmund as well. So we proved we can do it.
At the moment we are winning ugly and we are just waiting for the performance to go with the victories.
We were all disappointed after the way the Milan game finished, so no mistakes.
This is a massive game and we have to win on Wednesday.
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