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Hugo Lloris: Tottenham must think of top four before Premier League title

“It will be a battle to qualify for the Champions League this season”. Liverpool were better in [the] first half, more intensity, more aggressive than us, they won the game on the basics of football.

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Hugo Lloris still believes that he and his teammates can still fight for the league title but with 10 points separating Chelsea from Tottenham, that gap looks insurmountable with 13 games remaining.

You could see him playing global football and, okay, clubs may want to see him in Champions League. “Today we started the game in fifth position in the Premier League and now we’re second”.

“Maybe you can imagine, I’m not too interested in this at the moment”.

Spurs collected a number of yellow cards in the second half – frustration no doubt that the slim chance they had of catching Chelsea is now nearly certainly over. The Argentine started City’s first three matches of the season, allowing a goal in each of three wins, before taking a seat for 19 PL contests. We have never not said that, ” Dier told ESPN.

“We can not waste time thinking too much”.

“Before he left for Africa we had good results, only against Sunderland (2-2 in Mane’s last game before leaving) we did not have a good result”.

After their disappointing 2-0 loss to Hull last Saturday, Liverpool made one change with Georginio Wijnaldum starting in place of Emre Can in a straight forward looking change as they tried to enhance their attacking threat. Manchester City, who can move into second with a win at Bournemouth on Monday, have a net-spend of over £400m in the same period, while Manchester United’s is over £350m and Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool all top £120m.

Mane slammed his second goal in the 18th minute after Lloris had saved from Adam Lallana and Roberto Firmino.

“Of course we missed him in January, anyone would, but that’s only part of the truth”.

This report, coupled with Mane’s excellent season and recent performance against Spurs, is likely going to lead to wailing and gnashing of teeth among certain segments of Spurs fandom (much like Harry Redknapp’s now-apocryphal stories of the near-signings of Eden Hazard and Luis Suarez). “We need to show that in every competition we are involved in”.

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“Everyone was waiting for a game like this. We are still around, not with Chelsea but with the rest”.

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