supervisor and goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario apologised to Spurs supporters for the shortage of “battle” the crew confirmed within the 4-1 defeat at within the north London derby.
Frank known as the efficiency “extraordinarily painful” as in a one-sided derby the place the guests barely landed a punch, except for Richarlison’s speculative shot from 40 yards that beat David Raya.
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Goalkeeper Vicario didn’t blame Tottenham’s efficiency on ways, with Spurs boss Frank altering his formation to a defensive back-five towards the leaders, however accepted that the gamers didn’t compete.
Below Frank, who changed Ange Postecoglou in the summertime, Tottenham have fallen to defeats towards rivals Arsenal and Chelsea the place they’ve hardly threatened the opposition aim and struggled to create large probabilities.
“It was a foul efficiency,” Frank stated. “It was utterly the alternative of what the intention was after we got here right here. We will solely apologise to the followers. When the crew went lengthy, we did not win sufficient duels. That’s exemplified by the 2-0 aim and the 3-0 aim, the place a participant went via two or three gamers. Dangerous efficiency and we misplaced.
“I’ve seen loads of character and battle on this crew however we did not win sufficient duels. We will name that no matter we wish however we did not win sufficient. I attempted to play a 5-4-1. I’ll at all times take duty as my alternative ultimately to take the system then and we modified it at half-time.
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“It’s that it doesn’t matter what formation we play immediately, we do not have sufficient duels or depth within the decisive moments, and it is extremely troublesome to win a soccer match. The targets I need to see extra intimately. The entire sport I want to observe tonight an will probably be a troublesome watch. We weren’t aggressive and stepped ahead after we may they usually performed it spherical us.”
Tottenham will likely be in want of a response once they go to Champions League holders Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday and goalkeeper Vicario accepted that his team-mates have been too “passive” towards their north London rivals, who are actually six factors clear on the prime.
“A really dangerous evening for us. To start with now we have to apologise to the people who assist us day-after-day,” Vicario stated. “They anticipated us to battle and immediately we did not battle. That is not negotiable to do in soccer on this degree.
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“It is a powerful evening, a really dangerous defeat, however now we have to stay collectively. Now we have a giant evening on Wednesday however we have to stick collectively. Tonight we did not present the issues we’re usually able to.
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“The feelings are excessive, however we’d like cool heads and apologise to the people who assist us and have travelled immediately. I believe we waited an excessive amount of to get into the sport. We have been too passive.
“The sport plan we ready was completely different. At present we did not battle. Now we have to apologise to start with for this. However now we have to stay collectively and transfer on as a result of on Wednesday now we have a giant evening.”
Vicario didn’t blame Eze’s first aim on the defeat, with the goalkeeper unsighted by Arsenal gamers . The aim was checked by VAR however was allowed to face and Vicario stated: “I believe the way in which the sport went it would not have modified something.
“There have been three individuals in entrance of me so in fact they impacted me. However we did not lose the sport for that.”
Tottenham ‘laid down and received completely rolled over’, in keeping with Les Ferdinand (Getty Photographs)
In the meantime, former Tottenham striker Les Ferdinand was extraordinarily important for Tottenham’s toothless efficiency and stated they seemed like “tiddlywinks”.
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“We simply did not compete. No matter derby you flip as much as, you recognize it is going to be hostile, you recognize it is going to be fierce. It simply did not seem like that immediately,” Ferdinand advised Sky Sports activities. “They only did not compete the entire sport.
“Should you’re a Spurs fan now, you are pissed off as something. We have spoken about how they’ve gone to one of the best crew within the league at this second in time. So what do you need to do? You need to have a go. We laid down immediately and received completely rolled over.”