“We need to wait for the diagnostics”.
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“We fought a lot and tried to score”.
He continued: “We need to keep fighting and make sure we pick up points as soon as possible. We’re not expecting any big issues”, Pochettino added.
Spurs suffered a disappointing 2-1 reverse against Monaco in the Champions League in midweek and Pochettino was pleased to see his profligate side bounce back against a struggling Sunderland team who had Adnan Januzaj sent off in the final minute of normal time.
Pochettino’s team move up to third in the league and face newly-promoted Middlesbrough next weekend while Sunderland will face Crystal Palace at the Stadium of Light in search of their first win of the season.
The winger opted to play at the Olympics this summer rather than undergo a full pre-season with Spurs, and was nearly sold in the transfer window, just one year after joining the club.
They are also competing in the Champions League again after a five-year absence, with group-stage matches against CSKA Moscow and Bayer Leverkusen on September 27 and October 18.
“It was different from the last two seasons when we were only playing in the Europa League, where we could rotate the squad and the starting eleven”.
It was a hard fought victory for the League One side, as they took the game against the Premier League opponents to extra time before striker Bradley Dack scored the match victor in the 102 minute to score a famous victory and set up a tie against Spurs.
Pochettino had expressed his disappointment with Spurs’ first-half performance in that European clash at Wembley, accusing his players of having “a lack of passion” – and his players took the criticism onboard.
“All the lads are very passionate and love football but sometimes it doesn’t go in the way you want”.
“It is hard without him, but we signed Janssen, he’s working very well and he is a striker that can give us a lot of things”.
“I think we got improvements, we kept at it”.
Lloris added: “We can congratulate their keeper (Jordan Pickford), he was fantastic”.
“Tottenham are a top-quality side, that is why they finished where they did last season”.
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“We came here trying to get something, but we were always on the back foot right from the start – although we may have had the best chance of the game through Steven Pienaar”.
