Tottenham will stay at Wembley for Europa League – Pochettino

The north London side were eliminated on Tuesday night, after their 2-1 loss to Monaco in Monte Carlo.

“No, the players need to be focused on playing, and doing their talking on the pitch”, Pochettino said.

There was also a psychological deficit: Spurs conceded a second goal a mere minute after equalising – when they should have put security first in that moment. We will play in Wembley. But remember, last season we played Dortmund and we struggled a bit; that level was like the Champions League. “We had hard moments but that’s what you expect and what we knew could happen, but once again we refused to give up”, said Zidane.

“It’s disappointing, I don’t think we were good enough today anyway, but we got ourselves back in the game at 1-1 but it was a schoolboy error to concede straight after”.

Tottenham will qualify for the Europa League if they avoid defeat in their final group game against CSKA Moscow at Wembley on December 7. “We don’t deserve to go through to the next round because we didn’t show enough quality”, Pochettino said.

“It was tough and that is good for us to learn and try for the future if next season we’re in the Champions League to make some changes”. Centre-back Toby Alderweireld is still out of action with a knee problem and both left-backs, Danny Rose and his deputy Ben Davies, are unavailable due to suspension and injury respectively.

As well as physical issues, however, there is also the psychological aspect of playing in two high-level competitions.

Pochettino, however, set the record straight, and said he has no issues with the likely appointment of Holland as the assistant to Gareth Southgate, who is expected to be named permanent England boss.

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane praised their battling display against Sporting Lisbon as they claimed a place in the Champions League knockout stages with a scrappy 2-1win on Tuesday. “I think we felt that”.

Meanwhile, Monaco go through along with Bayer Leverkusen after another impressive performance and few sides will fancy coming up against Leonardo Jardim’s talented young side in the last 16.

“I am very happy with qualification and with first place in the group”, Jardim said.

“I don’t think on the day we were good enough, we found it hard to play from the back, they pressed us high but we are gutted”. You have to apply pressure and be compact.