Solanke\u2019s 34th-minute opener at home to Crystal Palace momentarily put Spurs four points clear of the bottom three, but Micky van de Ven\u2019s inexplicable sending-off for a pull on Ismaila Sarr changed the match.<\/p>\n
Sarr scored the resulting penalty and Palace struck twice more in first-half stoppage time to consign Tottenham to a fifth consecutive defeat, which extended their winless Premier League run to a club record of 11.<\/p>\n
Only one point above 18th-placed West Ham, Solanke acknowledged the critical scenario last season\u2019s Europa League winners are in and revealed a post-match meeting with the squad took place.<\/p>\n
Spurs turn attention to the Champions League with a last-16 first leg tie at Atletico Madrid on Tuesday, but Solanke called for a group missing 10 players to step up in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, another difficult one to take. Before the game, we looked at the game thinking we definitely needed to win, but it\u2019s another game that has passed now and we need to realise the position we\u2019re in,\u201d Solanke told SpursPlay.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was difficult circumstances (with 10 men) but we\u2019ve had a chat between us and we need to understand we need to improve and improve now.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is difficult and hard to say with just words, we need to show it on the pitch but it\u2019s something we need to do as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe obviously need to realise the position that we are in. We know it\u2019s been so difficult this season with the injuries, but we can\u2019t change that now.<\/p>\n
\u201cUs players on the pitch need to take responsibility and ultimately change it as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s difficult just speaking, but we need to realise the position we\u2019re in and we need to fight for every game. Fight for every result and there is not many games left, so we need to start (winning) soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we need to look forward to the next games. We need to see what is going wrong on the pitch, debrief that and change, but we\u2019re not in a position to dwell on anything now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to make sure next game we\u2019re going to be at it, see where we can improve and see what we can do to change this form around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solanke\u2019s 34th-minute opener at home to Crystal Palace momentarily put Spurs four points clear of the bottom three,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112,3568],"class_list":["post-331915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}