Poch feels at home in Italy as Spurs look to stake claim against Juventus

The boy from the small Argentinian town of Murphy has taken a long and winding road via Barcelona, Southampton, and Tottenham, to see for the first time his family’s ancestral home in Piedmont, Italy, but Mauricio Pochettino feels at home in Turin — and does not think Spurs should feel out of place at the Allianz Stadium where they face Juventus tonight.

Pochettino admitted he felt emotional to set foot for the first time in that part of northern Italy from whence his forebears set sail for Argentina over a century ago.

Now he is hoping to take his bright young Tottenham team to a new level, as the relative newcomers to the Champions League face footballing aristocracy.