‘They believe’ – Igor Tudor insists Tottenham players are still firmly behind him

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Igor Tudor has reacted to suggestions that he has lost the Tottenham dressing room after Spurs dug in to secure an away point at Anfield.

Following Tottenham’s defeat to Atletico Madrid, it was reported that the Spurs players had ‘no faith’ in Tudor to turn things around.

It was alleged that the interim Spurs boss’s failure to acknowledge Antonin Kinsky when he was coming off did not go down well with the Tottenham squad.

However, the former Juvenuts boss certainly does not feel that way and has now explained what he has felt from the players.

Igor Tudor insists Tottenham players are completely on board with his ideas

The Spurs players demonstrated at Anfield that they still have a lot of fight left in them, with a severely depleted Tottenham side emerging with a deserved draw from Merseyside.

Speaking ahead of the Liverpool clash, Tudor made it clear that the players are working hard and remain receptive to his ideas.

When asked if the Spurs players have lost trust in him, the 47-year-old told Sky Sports: “When you are in this moment, it is not easy to change things. It is even difficult to try to explain this situation in words because it is very rare and unusual. We need to be on board because it is always about being all together. They are [on board]. They work, and they try to do what I say. They believe.”

When asked if he still feels 100 per cent confident in his ability to turn things around, Tudor responded: “Would you expect me to sit here and say no?”

Tudor opens up about the challenges of Spurs’ injury situation

The Croat has had to go into almost every match with double-digit absentees due to injuries and suspensions since he took over at N17.

While he admitted that it is difficult to understand why there are so many injuries, he insisted that he and the players should see the situation as a challenge rather than feeling sorry for themselves.

When asked if he has been unlucky with the problems that have plagued Spurs since his arrival, Tudor said: “I don’t believe in that stuff. But there’s too much. Every game, two or three players are out. Sometimes it is not easy to understand the reasons. Sometimes you understand the problems and I recognise them, but it’s been difficult.

“It is what it is and we need to accept that. We need to see it as a challenge and not cry. When you have 10 players every game, 12 maximum or maybe even 13 and you don’t have a central defender every game and Archie [Gray] is playing in four different positions. When you don’t have full-backs or four defenders, tell me, how can you manage this situation?

“Every time you have to invent and also, what is more interesting is in two training sessions you have to teach them positions that they have never played before. You need to be very, very good to teach all these things in one or two training sessions.”

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