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Fight-or-flight? Under-fire Spurs boss Tudor issues rallying cry ahead of Liverpool clash

IGOR TUDOR has implored his struggling squad to shed a “victim” mentality and ignore external “b******s” in a desperate bid to galvanise them ahead of tomor row’s (12.30am Malaysian time) challenging trip to Liverpool. The rallying cry follows a period of intense pressure on Tottenham’s interim head coach, whose tenure has commenced with a club-record four consecutive defeats. This dire run includes a humili ating 5-2 Champions League loss to Atletico Madrid on Tuesday, a match marred by a “shambolic” opening where backup goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky was substituted after just 17 minutes following two disastrous errors. The defeat marked Tottenham’s sixth consecutive loss this year, another unwanted club record, intensifying scrutiny on Tudor. Tudor said: “Not easy situation, not an easy moment and from other side a big challenge to change things. “Like everything in life, you can choose how to see the situation. So, you can stay and cry or you can fight. “You can be the victim or you can say I can change something. This is the message I want to start and what I told to the players. “Everyone speaking, everyone has opinions and the life is always how you see it. The bottle is always half empty or half full. “Here there is nothing full, there is a lot of empty things but difficult moments don’t last forever. “It will pass and I believe the players who will take this as a chal lenge, as an opportunity to stand up with the courage to change things, after this period they will become better people and better players. “So, in tough moments it’s always about that, it’s always about us. In the last period, a lot of things about what is the club, the problems, no one esday, a ambolic” alkeeper bstituted wing two tenham’s his year, record, udor. situation, nd from enge to you can ation. So, you can m or you mething. t to start yers. everyone is always is always ull, there t difficult r. lieve the as a chal to stand change they will nd better ents it’s lways od, a s the

manage, for sure. Somewhere you arrive and you can help them. “My goal is to find if I can help to do 18 players out of 20, 15? I don’t know how much? Sometimes you cannot do anything, but most of the time you can do even small changes. “Small help, you know, you can do it, but also it’s what I always like to say to the players, don’t be a vic tim. “Don’t think it’s not about me. You know that can be the problem more than all these things about Tottenham and club, you know, like magic on the club, like bad black magic and these other b*******, you know. So this is about what I want to send a mes sage.” Tottenham forward Dominic Solanke added, “First, we must acknowledge that we have not per formed well enough in the League. We must do our best to turn the situation around as quickly as pos sible.” “Football can change in the blink of an eye, We are working hard while waiting for that moment of change. If we get one positive result, we can gain momentum from there. “The Liverpool match is another opportunity to change our form and results. “We know that an away game at Anfield is never easy, but we must believe in ourselves and be brave.” While all eyes are on Spurs ahead of tomorrow’s clash, Liverpool boss Arne

Spurs head coach, Igor Tudor. – AFPPIC

Slot expects a different Spurs test tomorrow despite their strug gles.

“You have to look at how those other g ame s went , play i ng

can do nothing and this like victim-ism, like we were victims. “I said this morning to the players totally opposition things. We are the team and we

s t y l e , managers,” Slot said.

are the staff. It’s all about us. All the b*******, all the other things are b******* and sorry to use this word, but it’s on us. “I do every day this work. Psychology

“Ange was there last two times, known for

different style than we mainly see in the Premier League now. “So yeah, games are more open, as PSG vs Chelsea was, two teams want to attack and press and that is not so common anymore that two teams want that style against each other. I expect a different Tottenham setup than a year ago.” – The Independent/Agencies

work. It is important also to give the cour age to the team-mates. Some of them they c a n n o t

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