Tottenham boss Antonio Conte has slammed his “egocentric players” and thinks his facet are “not a team” just after they threw away a two-goal direct at bottom facet Southampton.
Spurs led 3-1 at Saints with 16 minutes to go and looked on system to shift 3rd, but they conceded two times late on as James Ward-Prowse’s stoppage-time penalty rescued a 3-3 draw for the household facet.
The final result dents Tottenham’s leading-4 hopes with Conte’s side now just two factors earlier mentioned fifth-positioned Newcastle, who have two game titles in hand on them.
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Their collapse at St Mary’s caps off a depressing March for Spurs who had been dumped out of both equally the FA Cup and the Champions League previously this month to leave them trophyless since 2008.
Conte explained to Sky Sports following the 3-3 attract: “The scenario we dwell in the past thirty day period are not so very good.
“Ordinarily my workforce, they exhibit wonderful stability and not ups-and-downs, ups-and-downs, and as a substitute, if I have to compare this year and the advancement we are executing this time as opposed to past time, I consider alternatively of bettering the situation we are shedding the function that we did very last time.
“I will not converse about the tactical component, the technical component, I am conversing about the spirit, the sense of obligation about the coronary heart that we have to put on to the pitch.
“I think as an alternative of going and improving we are likely [on] to shed this attribute and, in my working experience, if you don’t have this attribute then it can take place that you can lose in the Championship to a 50 %-workforce like Sheffield United since Sheffield United I try to remember they participate in with a 50 percent workforce that ended up youthful players, not the initially workforce.
“Today versus Southampton you are winning 3-1 and you sense the notion my notion is that anything can happen in each individual moment. And to be frightened, scared of what [might] occur.
“I imagine it is ideal also, there is a minute, that the mentor is the initially dependable, the club is the to start with dependable – the players, the players have to take the obligation for the reason that what we are observing in the previous thirty day period I really don’t like. I really don’t like.
“And I’m not made use of to looking at this kind of condition. I see a ton of selfish gamers and I will not see a team.”
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