The Monaco boss also acknowledged the size of the Wembley pitch affected the Spurs performance.
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However, the England worldwide has made a habit of silencing his doubters – he scored one in nine at the start of last season before winning the Premier League Golden Boot – and says he is ready to do so again. “We need to be more aggressive in front of goal”.
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Spurs dominated at the start of the match and even with the atmosphere and expectation in front of a record-breaking crowd of 85,011, the highest ever home attendance for an English club, Spurs paid the price for first-half sloppiness in defence.
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Spurs were lifeless for large parts of their game against the Ligue 1 table-toppers, falling behind to goals from Bernardo Silva and Thomas Lemar within the first 32 minutes.
“I was sad at half-time but I said to the players if you had said we were going to be winning 2-1 at half-time I would have taken that”. “We need to play with more hunger and passion”.
It’s a big disappointment because there was a lot of expectation from the Champions League before this season.
“It’s fantastic for us young players to have a manager with his attitude and work rate”.
Fans of Tottenham’s bitter rivals Arsenal can testify to the struggles of a Wembley relocation as they won just two of their six fixtures in Europe when temporarily playing there in the late 1990s. We designed two pitches (at the training ground), one with the same dimensions as Wembley.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side are playing at Wembley while White Hart Lane is redeveloped and midfielder Dier says the bigger pitch and more fans can only be an advantage. We will have to give the maximum to get the result we want.
Dembele has missed the first four games of Tottenham’s Premier League campaign because of a domestic suspension for violent conduct at the end of last season against Chelsea.
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He said: “We usually bounce back quite well from a defeat and we’ve got the next game against Sunderland”. We need to play and try to beat Monaco.
