Tottenham Hotspur boss Roberto De Zerbi
Tottenham Hotspur boss Roberto De Zerbi
Tottenham Hotspur will be using their two-day preparation advantage over Coventry City with a team-bonding trip to Spain.
Spurs have 48 hours more than the Sky Blues to get ready for next Monday’s Premier League clash in North London.
And while Frank Lampard’s men were emptying the tank in a superb 4-1 win over Newcastle United last night, Spurs players had already flown out for a training camp in Marbella.
Roberto De Zerbi’s men drew 1-1 with Manchester United on Saturday are are taking advantage of the nine day gap between that match and their next.
De Zerbi explained: "We have to build the team. Now the target is to build the team, not the group of the players. We are a great group of players, but we are not a team yet.
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"This game (Manchester United), we show to be a team. To be a team is to play for the team-mates, suffer together, attack together, defend together, the players who come inside five minutes, three minutes, like Mateus Fernandes, they have to play like they are in the first 11, without problems, without other faults.
"We have to find the balance between the confidence in ourselves and to be hungry in the training and in the games.”
De Zerbi added: “We will work together, stay together, to go for dinner together, to know each other better, because to be a team you have to know the teammates.
“We are still in a bad situation, we can’t accept staying in that situation. It’s not important the environment, the past, the last season.
“We can’t accept it, we can’t stay sad for the result. We have to react. We have to find ways to improve the result, to improve the table, to improve this club.”
Sky Blues’ second successive win lifted them to 14th place, five spots and three points above Spurs who are yet to win a league game this season.