Brave AaB primed for Tottenham test

Aalborg BK will not give in to despair as they come to White Hart Lane looking to inflict a second Group G home defeat on Juande Ramos's Tottenham Hotspur FC.

• AaB were the first Danish side to compete in the UEFA Champions League, and coach Erik Hamrén is an optimistic man, saying: "My philosophy is that everything is possible. If you believe it, if you really believe it, and you're working really hard for it together, then it's possible. We are the lowest ranked team and I don't think many expect us to go further. But if you have this belief then there is a possibility, so in my mind we have a chance."

• After losing 2-1 at home against Getafe CF in their opening match – their last under Dutch coach Martin Jol – a 2-0 win at Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC under new coach Ramos has brought Tottenham up to second place in the section.

• AaB have drawn their only match to date, 1-1 at home against RSC Anderlecht. Mattias Lindrstöm's goal in that game was the Danish side's 50th in UEFA club competition.

• Ramos is the only coach to have won successive UEFA Cups, taking the title in the last two seasons with Sevilla FC. He is the only coach apart from Giovanni Trapattoni to have won the competition more than once.

• Another success with Tottenham would see him become only the second coach to win the competition three times after Trapattoni, who won three times with Juventus in 1976/77, 1990/91 and 1992/93.

• Sven-Göran Eriksson is the only coach to have appeared in three UEFA Cup finals with more than one club, winning with IFK Göteborg in 1981/82, but losing with SL Benfica in 1982/83 and S.S. Lazio in 1997/98.

• It would also see Tottenham join FC Internazionale Milano, Juventus and Liverpool FC as the only teams to have won the competition three times.

• The two sides have never met in UEFA club competition and Tottenham have never before come up against Danish opposition.

• AaB's only experience of English opponents came in a 1966/67 European Champion Clubs' Cup first round tie against Everton FC. They drew 0-0 at home but lost 2-1 on Merseyside in the return.

• Tottenham's Finnish midfielder Teemu Tainio celebrates his 28th birthday on 27 November, two days before the AaB game.

• AaB forward Jeppe Curth was at Feyenoord at the same time as Tottenham's Hossam Ghaly, although the Dane was to leave Rotterdam without making a single league appearance.

• AaB defender Michael Jakobsen made a solitary appearance for PSV Eindhoven in two seasons at the club between 2003 and 2005. Tottenham's Korean left-back Lee Young-Pyo was at the Dutch club at the same time.

• Karim Zaza's next yellow card will result in a one-match ban for the AaB goalkeeper, while the same fate awaits Tottenham's Jermain Defoe.