UPDATED: 17:00 EST, 3 April 2013 Scott Parker admits he can't recall where his 2005 Carling Cup and Premier League champions' medals are actually. He did not feel central to Chelsea's victories that year and thinks the mementoes were replicas, anyway. A Europa League winners' medal, but, could benefit present somewhere 'a little bit more specific' in the Parker home. 'It would have to go on the hearth, wouldn't it'? says the midfielder, laughing. Tottenham are now just five matches away from winning a trophy Parker says his boss, Andre Villas-Boas, has qualified from the outset, but should play the initial leg of these quarter-final against Hamilton Academical Basle without Jermain Defoe. Hungry: Scott Parker desires to gain the Europa League with Tottenham The striker has blocked a pelvic muscle and will miss Thursday's house wrap and Sunday's crucial Premier League match against Everton. Defoe can be question for the get back leg in Switzerland next Thursday, but is anticipated to be fit for Manchester City's trip to White Hart Lane on April 21. Villas-Boas admitted the 30-year-old's lack will be a 'large loss' but recommended the scintillating form of Gareth Bale playing down the middle will become more than enough to pay. Villas-Boas' former membership, Chelsea, also have inadvertently helped Tottenham by developing in the FA Cup: the edges currently occupying third and fourth devote the Premier League were due to meet at Stamford Bridge on April 14. Diploma for next year's Champions League remains Tottenham's concern, but Parker and his team-mates have now been left in no doubt regarding respect in which Villas-Boas contains the Europa League. The Spurs manager won it with Porto in 2011 and has nevertheless yet to be broken out of what he called a 'tremendous' opposition. It is a lesson from which Parker feels different English groups could understand. Pleased camp: Tottenham have made great this year to progress 'He told us from the start that we were going to test and win it,' said the midfielder, 32, 'and that we were going to get solid. I think, from past years, you usually takes an inferior group or you rest certain participants nonetheless it is never been the case this season. I believe how much the manager really wants to excel in this opposition and every person has been fully alert to how powerful. 'It is a big opposition and you can find big groups inside it as well. You have done bloody well if you win this competition. As a team to achieve that and you deserve plenty of credit, as a squad. 'It is something that I'd want to do and manage to look right back on by the end of my career. As a player, there is nothing more worthwhile than going to a final and raising a trophy.' Promising start: But Parker's move to Chelsea did not work-out as was thought Parker was at Chelsea when Jose Mourinho's part raised the Carling Cup and Premier League trophies in 2005, but he made only 11 looks all period after breaking a in his right foot in December. He describes being 'around' these wins as opposed to sensation he deserved them but, as one of the several Tottenham players to possess come even that near training a prize, Parker believes he has a duty to try and instil the same successful attitude he experienced at Chelsea. The manner of Spurs' 2-1 win at Swansea on Saturday - a game title Villas-Boas' part truly did not deserve to get - was an sign that 'typical Tottenham' no more means disintegrating at the final moment. But the thoughts of last year, when Harry Redknapp's Spurs blew a 13-point lead and saw Arsenal be eligible for a the Champions League at their expense, stay. Parker said: 'There probably are not many (former champions) in the squad. I know for a fact all of us because changing area really wants to continue and take to and be successful and win some thing. Bit part: Parker said he couldn't undoubtedly relish Chelsea's success 'Winning becomes a routine - you know you are going out and you can grind out results. We used to grind out results when we were not playing well when I was at Chelsea. There is a know-how and that is probably where we truly need to access. I believe we're near it. 'Every question is about how exactly we crumbled a year ago and the information in the changing-room isn't repeat. We need certainly to show that we're not going to do that and we're going to truly have a successful period.' Qualification for the Champions League or perhaps a Europa League champions' medal for the hearth then? 'I will need both,' said Parker.
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