{"id":655859,"date":"2026-05-07T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:23:11","slug":"tottenham-news-conference-maddison-maybe-for-leeds-game-vicario-still-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655859\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham news conference: Maddison ‘maybe’ for Leeds game, Vicario still out"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The losers cry and think negative’published at 15:21 BST<\/p>\n

15:21 BST<\/p>\n

Tottenham v Leeds (Mon, 20:00 BST)<\/p>\n

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\"RobertoImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

In his last pre-match news conference, Tottenham boss Roberto de Zerbi said the “most important challenge now” was to “silence the voice inside of us”. <\/p>\n

If there were any doubts, it did not show in Spurs’ performance at Aston Villa on Sunday as they ran out comprehensive 2-1 winners.<\/p>\n

On negative thoughts, De Zerbi added: “This voice produces negative thoughts and the voice says we are unlucky, we have too many injuries. I think it’s all negative things and it’s rubbish.”<\/p>\n

On the topic, De Zerbi said he wanted to keep the focus on “ourselves and the quality of my players”. <\/p>\n

He said that it is a tough moment for the club “but the losers cry” and “think negative”.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want people close to me crying or to think a different way than me,” the Italian added. <\/p>\n

“I heard no, it’s impossible, we are crying, everyone, we are relegated, no? Not yet and we have to die on the pitch. We have to play, we have to fight.”<\/p>\n

And fight they did…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘The losers cry and think negative’published at 15:21 BST 15:21 BST Tottenham v Leeds (Mon, 20:00 BST) Tottenham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-655859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}