“I think they had a good experience but we spoke yesterday and I told them that to play at the next level you compete with teams like Borussia Dortmund, which is a real test”, Pochettino said.
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“No regrets. I’m very disappointed with the result but we didn’t have a very good day”. It’s important to recover well for all the players and we will all be ready for the game on Sunday which is maybe the most important.
“That is why we lost the game”, said Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino.
Dortmund put in a footballing master class to claim a comfortable victory over the Premier League’s second-placed side in the first leg of the Round of 16 at Westfalenstadion.
Spurs resume their Premier League campaign with a trip to bottom club Aston Villa on Sunday and Lloris has few concerns that they will be affected by a European hangover.
Lloris, however, would not be drawn on the starting line-up in Germany.
Dortmund’s hitman has recorded 22 goals so far in 24 appearances, compared to 17 from Kane’s 29. Spurs will be hoping the Dortmund defeat won’t affect the players too much and I can see the North Londoners easing to a routine 2-0 win this weekend.
In a dominant display, Dortmund had 20 shots to Tottenham’s three and the only surprise was that the German side did not win by a bigger margin.
Dortmund, which has won nine of its past 11 games and has not lost since December and started at a pace which most teams would struggled to keep up with.
While Harry Kane found himself rested once again on the bench, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was unleashed on the Spurs defence from the start. However, as it stands, the Lilywhites’ chances of progressing to the last eight of the Europa League are looking very slim indeed. If you are late at some point you will then be late somewhere else as well and we gave them loads of space to play in.
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“We were expecting it a bit because they did it before”, Tuchel said.
