Dejan Kulusevski has warned his Tottenham team-mates they have to pick themselves up to turn their season around.
Tottenham are five points off the top four and face a daunting trip to Manchester City on Thursday on the back of a demoralising defeat by Arsenal. Kulusevski admitted that Arsenal were on a different level to Spurs in the North London Derby but insisted they must move on quickly if they are to regain their form.
Spurs winger Kulusevski, 22, said: “It was a bad result, bad first half, but we have to move on. We cannot go home and be sad. We have another game soon and we just have to recover good.
“I’m looking forward to Manchester City. We have good memories from playing there. It’s going to be a very difficult game but we have to do everything right.
“Like I said, you cannot be sad. You have to move on. Never too high, never too low. We have to prepare, we have to show our character and we’re going to be ready.”
Tottenham have been haunted all season by conceding the first goal in games and then having to try and fight their way back. It is a problem which Kulusevski admits they have to conquer, but so far, they have not found the reasons.
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The Swede added: “It’s very hard for everybody, but if we don’t start the games better, we’re not going to win, so we have to stop doing that. I have no idea, honestly. What I see is that when we score first, we win the games and when we don’t, it’s much less per cent (of wins).
“We’re trying. Nobody wants to concede first but everyone is trying. To find a solution is a little bit harder. We started good and then they scored a lucky goal and after that we didn’t play good enough. We couldn’t touch them.
"They’re a really good team, they’re not first in the league because of luck, so it was hard for us to keep the ball, to press them. But then second half was much better. We couldn’t score, that’s the bad thing, but we created a lot of chances.”
