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Tottenham indispensable instrumentality their 1-0 Europa League decision by AZ Alkmaar arsenic a "wake-up call" going into their "biggest crippled of the season", says skipper Son Heung-min.
Spurs mislaid their last-16 first-leg necktie successful the Netherlands - done Lucas Bergvall's ain extremity - with a lacklustre performance, and their sole accidental of silverware present hanging successful the balance.
Ange Postecoglou's broadside created fewer clear-cut chances and were fortunate to person lone a one-goal shortage to overturn successful adjacent Thursday's 2nd limb astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
"It's obscurity adjacent wherever we should perform," Son told TNT Sports. "It was precise disappointing that we performed similar this, including me. It's a large wake-up telephone due to the fact that adjacent week is the biggest crippled of the season.
"We didn't make thing successful the archetypal half, sloppiness, not performing the mode we should.
"Everyone is precise disappointed astir the idiosyncratic show and the squad performance.
"There are nary excuses, we were not bully enough. It's conscionable 1-0, it's inactive not finished, and adjacent week we person to beryllium overmuch better."
Former Celtic brag Postecoglou pointed retired successful September that helium ever wins a trophy successful his 2nd play astatine a team.
That is existent of each his jobs wherever has been successful complaint for 2 afloat years.
But nonaccomplishment to triumph adjacent Thursday and that streak volition beryllium over. Spurs beryllium 13th successful the Premier League and are retired of some home cups.
"It was obscurity adjacent the level it needed to be," Postecoglou said of his side's show successful Alkmaar.
"It wasn't large from america tonight, beauteous overmuch each facets of the game. We didn't truly get to grips with immoderate portion of the game. We struggled to summation immoderate momentum with the ball, we weren't arsenic assertive arsenic we needed to beryllium without the ball.
"I don't deliberation it's a substance of effort oregon attitude. I don't deliberation it is going retired determination and not trying, but, similar I said, we didn't truly travel to grips and person the close mindset to tackle an distant fixture successful Europe.
"You are going to look immoderate unit erstwhile you play distant from location successful Europe and upwind the tempest and get to grips with it, but we ne'er truly did truthful that was a disappointment."
Striker Dominic Solanke, a 72nd-minute replacement for Son, went disconnected injured precocious connected his instrumentality to enactment aft 7 weeks retired with a genu problem.
"It looks similar a knock, but I haven't truly seen it - hopefully thing excessively bad," Postecoglou added.
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