Tottenham’s players will hold an inquest at their training ground to discuss how they can get their season back on track following their humiliating 6-0 loss at Manchester City.
Spurs crashed to their heaviest Premier League defeat in 17 years and pressure is beginning to mount on coach Andre Villas-Boas.
The visitors never recovered after falling behind after 14 seconds and they have now dropped to ninth in the table.
Spurs’ next League match is at home against Manchester United on Sunday and Jan Vertonghen insists it provides a great opportunity for the players to recover their confidence as long as they learn from their mistakes.
“We need to talk now with the group and get ourselves motivated to bounce back in the next few games,” said the defender.
“Of course we didn’t play well against Manchester City but we’re better than this and we can sort the problems out by talking and bouncing back on Sunday against Man United.
“It’s a good thing that we’re playing against them next. We play at home and I know we have the support of our crowd and we’ll be able to win the game on Sunday.”
The defeat not only saw Spurs fail to score for the third League game in a row but also concede as many goals in one League match as they had in their previous 11.
They fell behind in farcical circumstances after goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who was making his first appearance for the club since recovering from concussion, cleared straight to Sergio Aguero and the ball was eventually turned in by Jesus Navas.
But Vertonghen admits the whole team have to take responsibility for the defeat and added: “We came here with a good motivation to get a good result but to concede a goal after a few seconds was a bad thing if you want to win.
“We did well after that but then we conceded a second and it was a difficult game for us after that.
“They scored very easily, we gave at least three or four goals away too easily. That was our own fault. City are a very strong team but I’d love to play this game again next week because we’re better than this. We were very disappointed when we came off the pitch because we felt we could do something here.”
