The attendance of 85,011 was a club-record home attendance and record for an English club in a domestic fixture, according to Spurs, who were greeted by an awning outside Wembley that read “Welcome to Tottenham Hotspur”.
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Spurs’ remarkable squad turnover over the past five years means that not one of the players in the squad today was involved in their last Champions League campaign.
“It’s only the first game but we need to improve and fast. We feel good at White Hart Lane because it’s our home and we need to feel good at Wembley”. Wembley being filled with 80,000 or more Tottenham fans is going to be an incredible experience.
Earlier yesterday it was announced that Eric Dier, who played under Monaco manager Leonardo Jardim while the two were at Sporting Lisbon, had signed a new contract to remain at Spurs until 2021. “In the second half I think we started well, but not well enough”.
“You don’t really want opponents looking forward to coming to your ground, but that will be the case when Monaco, CSKA Moscow and Bayer Leverkusen come to London”.
Moutinho faces up to Spurs in the Champions League tonight.
“The Tottenham team I managed got to the last-eight of the Champions League and they should be aiming to match that now, with a great manager at the helm and an exciting team that should be ready made to shine in this competition”.
For the past year Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham side have certainly played football worthy of a big stage.
And Alli agreed the performance was not one they had come to expect as a side and insisted they must learn to be more clinical in front of goal in the future. They played in a very comfortable position.
“You pay when you make mistakes and we paid”, he said. “We tried to look at how Tottenham would play, to look at their best aspects and their less good aspects”.
Kane was guilty of missing a gilt-edge opportunity and struggled to get into the game, with Cascarino adamant Spurs failed to exploit the extra space on offer at England’s national stadium.
“I’m happy to play anywhere in this team. We need to be more aggressive in front of goal”.
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“I think we all agreed about that, and when you concede a goal like this, yes we can speak about many things, but 2-0 down, it was very hard”.
