Jol was without a number of first-team players for the match in Spain, with Tom Huddlestone, Ledley King, Anthony Gardner, Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Danny Murphy all absent through injury, while Ricardo Rosha was cup-tied.

That meant Jol was forced to name a makeshift defence against the reigning UEFA Cup champions, with regular right-back Pascal Chimbonda employed at centre-back.

Spurs lost 2-1 but Jol is confident they can turn things around at White Hart Lane, especially if their treatment room starts to clear.

"We still feel confident and hopefully we can get some players back next week as we had to shift it around a bit at the back," said Jol.

The good news is that King and Murphy are almost fully recovered from their problems, while Gardner is also making good progress from his fractured leg.

"We have two or three injuries for Saturday, so after Saturday we can make another assessment," added Jol.

"You have to look at the circumstances as well, and if we have most of our players available I feel we have got a great chance."

Spurs went into the match at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium on a fine run of form both domestically and in Europe.

In the Premiership they have won five successive matches to climb up to sixth, while in the UEFA Cup they had won all eight of their matches in this year's tournament prior to their trip to Spain.

However, those unbeaten runs counted for little as Sevilla secured a narrow win as first-half strikes from Frederic Kanoute and Alexander Kerzhakov cancelled out Robbie Keane's second-minute opener for Spurs.

"Any game in Europe is a test," said Jol. "Over the last two and a half years, we have played 23 or 24 matches and this is the first we have lost.

"We can play against any team. Sevilla will probably feel the same - they won the UEFA Cup."

Kanoute's equaliser for Sevilla came from a harshly-awarded penalty against Paul Robinson, who was adjudged to have brought down Adriano inside the box even though it looked to be a clean challenge from the Spurs goalkeeper.

Jol was not pleased with the decision but refused to comment on the performance of referee Alain Hamer.

"I think it is up to UEFA to make decisions about the referees so I don't want to get into that," he said.

"It's like players, you can have a good performance and you can have a bad performance, but I don't want to make a judgment on it.

"I don't feel it was a disappointing result, I was disappointed with the decision for the penalty."

Jol also doubts whether using video technology would have been of much help on the penalty decision.

"I don't think so, I felt he (Hamer) made his mind up after two seconds. If he had a doubt maybe he could have handled it with the fourth official, but he didn't, he looked pretty convinced.

"I don't think it would help in the circumstances we saw tonight. I feel it is more for the situation we had at Man United," said Jol, referring to the long-distance shot from Pedro Mendes two years ago which clearly crossed the line.

"Then it could have helped the referee and linesman but (against Sevilla) it was about making a good judgment call.

"I'm not a referee but I felt, sitting about 90 or 100 yards away, I would have taken a different decision."