After Tottenham dug in to earn a 1-0 win against Villarreal on their return to the Champions League in midweek, Lucas Bergvall praised their “clean-sheet mentality’ with that shutout their fourth in their first five games this season.<\/p>\n
When the clean sheet opportunity was swiftly wiped out by Brighton on Saturday, the Spurs players showed a different mentality. <\/p>\n
This time they never gave up and appeared to have the belief that they could get something from the game, despite their statistically poor ability to recover from two-goal deficits.<\/p>\n
“The mentality that we showed, I was so impressed with,” added Frank.<\/p>\n
“[We showed] the mentality to stay in the game, to keep going, to keep pushing and come back and get a well deserved 2-2.”<\/p>\n
Tottenham midfielder Joao Palhinha told Sky Sports: “At least what we can take is the mentality that we had fighting for the result.”<\/p>\n
He added: “This mentality needs to be there always regardless of the result.”<\/p>\n
Against Brighton, Tottenham had 45 touches of the ball inside the opposition box, compared to just 17 for Brighton.<\/p>\n
They also had 11 shots on goal but just three of those were on target. <\/p>\n
While Tottenham appear to have improved defensively and mentality wise from last season, making the opposition goalkeeper work appears to be an area they have, for now, regressed in.<\/p>\n
“There are a lot of things for this team to keep improving,” Palhinha added. <\/p>\n
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