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  • UCL: Pochettino calls for togetherness after Bayern defeat

    Tottenham Manager, Mauricio Pochettino, says his team must “stay together” after a 7-2 defeat at home by Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Tuesday.

    Three goals in the last seven minutes rounded off a sorry evening for Tottenham, who led 1-0 only to fold in the closing stages.

    The result left last year’s runners-up with one point from their first two matches and already facing a battle to make the knockout stages of the competition.

    “It’s a tough situation, but you have to face it,’’ Pochettino told BT Sport.

    “You have to be strong and keep going.

    “We have to stay together and help each other.

    “The best medicine is to be all together.’’

    “When you receive this type of result, it’s important to believe in yourself.

    “That is the only way to recover the good feeling,’’ the manager said.

    Pochettino said he could not have foreseen the eventual result against Bayern after Spurs made a strong start.

    “We dominated the game in the first 30 minutes.

    “We were unlucky we were conceded at the end of the first half and after that, they were very clinical.

    “After we scored the penalty for 4-2, we had chances to score a third and be in the game.

    “It’s a tough result; It’s hard to accept.’’

    Pochettino said Tottenham owed the fans a reaction when they play at Brighton on Saturday.

    “We feel embarrassed for the result but we feel as bad as they feel, we’re very disappointed,’’ he said.

    “But we need to be back together again because being together is the most important.’’

  • Gnabry hits four as Bayern Munich trounce Tottenham 7-2

    Gnabry hits four as Bayern Munich trounce Tottenham 7-2

    Tottenham Hotspur suffered their worst home defeat in Europe as Serge Gnabry scored four times in Bayern Munich’s 7-2 romp to seize control of UEFA Champions League Group B on Tuesday.

    Master marksman Robert Lewandowski also scored twice as Bayern responded to going behind in devastating fashion

    When Son Heung-min gave last season’s runners-up Tottenham a deserved 12th minute lead, the home fans were buoyant.

    But their hopes were crushed as Spurs leaked in seven goals at home for the first time in any major competition.

    To make matters worse for Mauricio Pochettino’s shell-shocked side, it was Gnabry, a former Arsenal player, who was the architect of their humiliation.

    In a rip-roaring start to the first clash between the sides for 35 years, Son had twice wasted guilt-edge opportunities before firing Tottenham in front.

    But Tottenham’s lead lasted only three minutes as Joshua Kimmich’s superb long-range effort gave Hugo Lloris no chance.

    Tottenham were still posing a threat in a wide-open game but three Bayern Munich goals in 10 minutes left their hopes of a first win in Group B in tatters.

    Lewandowski has already bagged 10 goals in six Bundesliga games this season and showed why he is one of the world’s most-feared strikers as he beat Lloris with a shot on the turn seconds before the half-time.

    If that was a cruel blow for Tottenham, what happened in the opening minutes of the second half was crushing.

    Gnabry, who suffered several frustrating years at Arsenal, shredded Tottenham’s defence in the 53rd minute to score a breathtaking solo goal and struck again two minutes later.

    Harry Kane’s penalty kick restored some hope for Tottenham on the hour after Danny Rose was adjudged to have been fouled.

    But Bayern Munich were in ruthless mood.

    Gnabry completed his hat-trick in the 83rd minute, racing on to Thiago Alcantara’s long ball and then wrong-footing Lloris with a classy finish.

    With the home fans flooding towards the exits and Bayern Munich’s followers joyfully singing “football’s coming home”, the visitors piled on the agony.

    Lewandowski was played in by Philippe Coutinho and he finished in deadly fashion.

    With Tottenham’s defence AWOL again, Gnabry put Niko Kovac’s team in seventh heaven.

    Bayern Munich lead Group B with six points from two games, with Tottenham on one.

    Red Star Belgrade are second with three points after beating Olympiakos 3-1 in the group’s other match.(

  • Carabao Cup: Tottenham stunned by League Two side

    Carabao Cup: Tottenham stunned by League Two side

    League Two Colchester United produced a huge upset as they beat Premier League Tottenham on penalties to reach the Carabao Cup fourth round.

    The Essex side – the lowest-ranked team left in the competition – frustrated last year’s semi-finalists throughout the 90 minutes and won a dramatic shootout after Christian Eriksen and Lucas Moura missed from the spot.

    After Eriksen’s first kick of the shootout was saved by Dean Gerken, the hosts looked to have wasted their advantage when Jevani Brown tried an audacious ‘Panenka’ effort, which was so weak that Paulo Gazzaniga was able to abort his dive, stand up and punch the ball to safety.

    But when Moura smashed Tottenham’s fifth effort against the bar, Tom Lapslie stepped up to send Colchester into the last 16 for the first time in 44 years and prompt wild celebrations.

    BBC

  • EPL: Leicester City come from behind to beat Spurs

    EPL: Leicester City come from behind to beat Spurs

    James Maddison’s first league goal of the season helped Leicester come from behind to beat Tottenham in an absorbing encounter at the King Power Stadium.

    Maddison drilled a superb low effort into the far corner from distance to lift Brendan Rodgers’ side back into the top four at the visitors’ expense.

    Ricardo Pereira had put the Foxes back on level terms, moments after Spurs had been denied a second goal when Serge Aurier’s low drive was disallowed for a marginal offside call against Son Heung-min.

    Harry Kane’s fourth league goal of the season had given Spurs the lead in the first half, the England striker slotting Son’s clever flick beyond Kasper Schmeichel despite being knocked off balance by Foxes defender Caglar Soyuncu.

    Leicester thought they had opened the scoring themselves when Wilfred Ndidi scored on the rebound after Paulo Gazzaniga spilled Youri Tielemans’ effort, but the goal was ruled out for offside by VAR.

  • Super Sunday: Arsenal come from two down to draw Tottenham

    Super Sunday: Arsenal come from two down to draw Tottenham

    Arsenal came from two goals down to salvage a point as a pulsating north London derby with Tottenham ended 2-2 at the Emirates on Super Sunday.

    Spurs raced into a two-goal lead inside 40 minutes thanks Christian Eriksen’s early tap-in and Harry Kane’s clinical penalty, after Granit Xhaka mindless lunge on Heung-min Son in the area.

  • Spurs manager, Pochettino apologises to Man Utd

    Spurs manager, Pochettino apologises to Man Utd

    Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino has apologised to Manchester United over the tough tackles from his team during Thursday’s International Champions Cup game.
    Angel Gomes hit a late winner for United after Lucas Moura’s deflected shot cancelled out Anthony Martial’s opener in China.
    Eric Bailly hurt his knee trying to block a shot from Son Heung-min while Moussa Sissoko appeared to stamp on United’s new winger, Daniel James, in the first half.
    And Pochettino acknowledged his side were perhaps overly aggressive in their 2-1 defeat.
    “I was a little bit annoyed about some situations, I was not happy.
    “It was a friendly game and in some situations of course when you are tired, when it’s so hot you are not right with the tempo to arrive at the actions, sometimes you arrive late and something can happen.
    “I apologise on behalf of our players to Manchester United,” he told reporters.
    Pochettino added: “It wasn’t their intention, but sometimes when you are tired you arrive late and some things can happen.
    “And I was worried because in this period of preparation it is sometimes you need to be aggressive and you need to play with passion but sometimes the focus is to build your fitness and develop the way you want to play.
    “Of course I was worried, Manchester United, Eric Bailly got injured and I am sorry for that but he was alone.
    “And always when the players start to build their fitness and start to fight for their place in the team, when something happens in the pre-season it’s always tough and I was a little bit worried, but in the second half the game was a bit more relaxed.”

  • Kane hits 93rd minute wonder-goal as Spurs sink Juventus

    Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane scored what he called “one of the best goals” of his career to beat Italian champions Juventus 3-2 in an enthralling International Champions Cup contest in Singapore on Sunday.
    Kane capitalised after team mate Lucas Moura nicked the ball deep into injury time.
    The striker thumps his effort from the halfway line high into the steamy night and over the head of Juventus’ back-pedalling goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny.
    His goal completed a comeback after Cristiano Ronaldo put Juventus 2-1 in front.
    “”It is probably one of the best goals of my career.
    “”I could see in parts of the game the keeper was off the line.
    “I thought if I get a chance to shoot, I’ll shoot and thankfully it went in,” Kane said.
    Spurs midfielder Erik Lamela scored the only goal of the first half, striking from close range in the 31st minute after Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon palmed a shot from teenage striker Troy Parrott.
    In a livelier second half, Juventus substitute Gonzalo Higuain equalised in the 56th minute after some neat interplay on the edge of the box gave him the space to place it low into the right corner.
    Then up stepped crowd-favourite Ronaldo.
    Defender Mattia De Sciglio cut the ball back to the Portuguese who drilled it across the keeper in his last touch before he was replaced.
    However, Juventus’ lead did not last long.
    In the 65th minute, Moura got on the end of a pinpoint pass from Tanguy Ndombele, the French midfielder who joined Spurs for a club record fee earlier this month.
    In the closing stages, Higuain had a decent chance to break the deadlock.
    Nevertheless, it was Kane’s wonder-goal – which came after Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot lost the ball – which sealed the win in the dying seconds.
    ““It was a great goal. Unbelievable from Harry. It is good for him to set off pre-season with scoring,” Spurs coach Mauricio Pochettino said.
    The International Champions Cup features 12 teams playing friendly matches in venues in North America, Europe and Asia.

  • Transfer: Tottenham's Trippier joins Atletico Madrid

    England right-back Kieran Trippier has completed a £20m move to Spanish side Atletico Madrid from Tottenham.

    The 28-year-old, who joined Spurs from Burnley in June 2015 and played more than 100 times for the London club, has signed a three-year deal with the La Liga side.
    He had admitted he was not sure he would see out his Spurs contract,which was due to expire in 2022.
    Trippier is Atletico’s third major defensive signing of the summer.
    Coach Diego Simeone has already recruited centre-back Felipe from Porto and left-back Renan Lodi from Brazilian side Athletico Paranaense, while Uruguay defender Diego Godin has moved to Inter Milan.
    The La Liga runners-up did, however, receive £107.7m from the sale of France striker Antoine Griezmann to champions Barcelona.
    Trippier, whose last appearance for Tottenham was in the 2-0 Champions League final defeat by Liverpool in June, did not travel with the Spurs squad for their pre-season tour of Asia.

  • Transfer: Tottenham sign Ndombele from Lyon

    Tottenham have signed France midfielder Tanguy Ndombele from Ligue 1 side Lyon for a club record 60m euros (£53.8m).

    The 22-year-old has signed a deal until 2025 and the fee could rise to 70m euros (£62.8m) with incentives.
    Tottenham’s previous transfer record was the £42m paid to sign defender Davinson Sanchez from Ajax in August 2017.
    Ndombele joined Lyon in 2017 and helped them finish third in the French top-flight last season.
    He also twice played against Manchester City in Champions League group games.
    In total Ndombele, who has six caps for France, made 96 appearances for Lyon and registered 16 assists.
    Lyon thanked the player for his time at the club, praising his “professionalism and his performances”.
    Ndombele is Tottenham’s second signing of the summer following the arrival of Jack Clarke from Leeds United.
    The winger, who was Spurs’ first signing since Brazil forward Lucas Moura joined from Paris St-Germain in January 2018, was immediately loaned back to the Championship side for the 2019-20 season.

  • Transfer gist: Eriksen set to leave Tottenham for new challenge

    Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen says he is ready to leave Tottenham Hotspur to take on a new challenge at another club ahead of next season.

    Eriksen, who arrived at Spurs from Ajax Amsterdam in August 2013, has been a pivotal figure in Mauricio Pochettino’s squad which finished runners-up to Liverpool in the Champions League.

    The midfielder also helped the side to a fourth place finish in the English Premier League (EPL).

    “I feel that I am at a stage of my career where I would like to try something new,” the 27-year-old Eriksen told Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.

    “I have the deepest respect for everything that is happening at Tottenham and it would not be something negative to stay. But I have also said that I would like to try something new.

    “I hope that something will be decided this summer. That is the plan. In football you never know when there could be a decision like that. It could be at any point.”

    Eriksen has one year left on his Spurs contract and Spanish media reports have linked him with a move to Real Madrid, who are looking to revamp the squad under Zinedine Zidane.

    This is after a disappointing season in which they finished third in the league.

    “Real Madrid is a step up but then it would take Real Madrid picking up the phone and making contact with Tottenham and say that they want Christian. They haven’t done as far as I know.

    “It all depends on (Spurs chairman) Daniel Levy and there has to be another club too. Or I will sit down myself at the table and negotiate a new contract.”

    The news of Eriksen considering his future will come as a blow to Spurs, who were looking to use their emphatic run to the Champions League final as a springboard for next season.

    The club have not made a signing since Lucas Moura arrived in January 2018, and Pochettino would hope to keep hold of his experienced players to challenge the likes of Liverpool and champions Manchester City in the EPL.