Tottenham Hotspur keeper Hugo Lloris feels they need to transform their high pressing style in an order to refrain them from leaking goals.
Spurs were on the course to register a well drilled victory over Wolves as they took a three goal lead against the newly promoted side. But some minute lapse of concentration saw Nuno Espirito Santo’s closing in as they scored two goals in quick successions to launch a fight back.
The result could have been otherwise but the home side saw Raul Jimenez’s goal wrongly ruled out offside. Spurs are scheduled to face PSV Eindhoven in a must win clash in the Champions League and Lloris insists his team needs to find an alternative way than the pressing philosophy.
“We play in one way and it demands a lot of energy and concentration.
“We are always in control of the ball and we always try to press the opponent. Whatever is the score we try to play the same way – if it is 0-0, 3-0 or 1-0 down.
“But in this type of play we have to be more clever with the ball and without the ball. We need to learn. It is not the first time this has happened in the Champions League and in the League that the opponent created chances in the last minutes of the game.
“It is something we need to improve.
“The big thing is to win but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.
“We have shown in the last few years that Tottenham have a way of playing and we try to respect the plan but I think there are a lot of things to learn.
“It is the responsibility of the players. Of course the manager has his expectations and so do the staff and they try to give us the main tools and then it is about our emotions, our feelings.
“If we have to play a different way, we have to play a different way.”
