{"id":877962,"date":"2026-10-10T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877962\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:28:10","slug":"i-kissed-rodrigo-roberto-de-zerbi-praises-bentancurs-red-card-against-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877962\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I kissed Rodrigo’ – Roberto de Zerbi praises Bentancur’s red card against Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the late elation sparked by Solanke’s 92nd-minute equaliser, Tottenham<\/a> remain in the relegation zone with just three points from their opening six matches.<\/p>\n

It is just the fourth time the club have failed to win each of their opening six games of a league season, after 2008-09, 1955-56 and 1912-13.<\/p>\n

Spurs have often looked lively in attack this season, but they have lacked conviction in front of goal and only 19th-placed Coventry have scored fewer goals than Tottenham<\/a>‘s three.<\/p>\n

However, Tottenham<\/a> fans can take belief from their overall performance at Old Trafford as they ran United ragged in the opening half with fluid, high-tempo football.<\/p>\n

“Today has been the game where for the first time this season we showed we are a team,” De Zerbi said.<\/p>\n

“We played for the team-mates, we played together, we stayed inside of the game in every situation and we attacked as a team and defended as a team.”<\/p>\n

The Italian manager added on Sky Sports: “I’m very happy because I’ve seen the right spirit, the right character and I want to start from this character, this reaction, this behaviour.”<\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/a> spent more than \u00a3250m on new talent over the summer – adding 10 players to their squad.<\/p>\n

But their poor start has prompted the club to organise a warm-weather training camp in Spain, with the team expected to travel to Marbella on Sunday<\/a> in the hope it will provide a chance for their new-look squad to bond.<\/p>\n

“Now the target is to build the team,” De Zerbi said. <\/p>\n

“We are a great group of players but we are not a team yet and to be a team is to play for the team-mates, suffer together, attack together.”<\/p>\n

Spurs face newly-promoted Coventry on Monday, 19 October before making the short trip to Chelsea<\/a> the following Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the late elation sparked by Solanke’s 92nd-minute equaliser, Tottenham remain in the relegation zone with just three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-877962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}