Dejan Kulusevski insists Tottenham must βchange for the betterβ following their heavy defeat to Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday.
Spurs were beaten 6-3 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as Arne Slotβs Reds ran riot in north London, courtesy of goals from Luis Diaz, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah.
Kulusevski was among the goals for Spurs, alongside James Maddison and Dominic Solanke, but it was a largely miserable evening for Ange Postecoglouβs side.
The Australian, who kept the same team following Thursdayβs 4-3 win over Manchester United, was without several key defensive players, including Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie, as well as goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario.
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The injury list is proving costly: Postecoglouβs team have now conceded 10 goals in their last two home league games, and now find themselves in the bottom half of the table despite being the divisionβs top scorers.
And Kulusevski believes Spurs must learn from the defeat.
βYou have to improve, you have to find ways,β said the Sweden international.
βMaybe we should maybe let them [Liverpool] have the ball more, but you know, thatβs not how we play. So we went out, we gave everything. It didnβt work, maybe we [will] learn for the next time.
βYou have to think about how are we physically? Whoβs playing? How many games have we played in the last week? Who are we playing? Have they rested for one week or something?
βYou have to put everything in because it is like life. Itβs not just black and white. Itβs a lot of factors going into it.
βWe have to learn because we conceded six goals. I canβt sit here and say that weβre doing something perfectly, weβre not. We have to change a little bit for the better, always try to change for the better.β
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Postecoglou, meanwhile, could not hide his frustration when asked by a BBC reporter if anything other than Tottenhamβs injury woes were behind his sideβs recent struggles.
βIβm just going to stop answering these questions,β Postecoglou said. βIf people canβt see the obvious Iβm not going to point it out.
βMake of it what you want, yes weβre conceding goals. If you want to discount the fact weβre missing a goalkeeper, two centre-backs and a left-back and that hasnβt coincided with what weβre doing.
βI donβt know what to say anymore. I think people make up their mind in their own way. They either think what Iβm doing is good or bad, and thatβs fine.β
Next up for Spurs is a meeting with their former manager Nuno Espirito Santo when they make the trip to Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day.