Mathys Tel said he will not shy away from taking more penalties for Tottenham after missing from the spot in the UEFA Super Cup.
Spurs led Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 with 85 minutes played in the Super Cup, but conceded a pair of late goals and lost after a penalty shootout.
Micky van de Ven saw his spot kick saved before Tel, whose loan from Bayern Munich was made permanent this summer, fired wide.
He wasted little time in stepping back up to the spot, though, scoring from 12 yards for France Under-21s in a 6-0 rout of the Faroe Islands this month.
Despite facing considerable backlash for his shootout miss, Tel was adamant that he feels “no fear” about volunteering to take more penalties for Tottenham.
“I will take a penalty again,” he declared in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.
“If we go again to play in the Super Cup next year, I will take it again. No fear.”
“I love Kobe Bryant and I always read what he did and he was always about trying, trying.
“You need to try to have success. You are going to make mistakes to have success, so I’m OK with mistakes.
“I’m OK if I don’t score goals because I’m going to be back and next time I will score.”
Tel was among six Spurs players excluded from Thomas Frank’s Champions League squad after an underwhelming performance in the Super Cup, but added that snub had inspired him to continue improving.
He was left out alongside Kota Takai and Yves Bissouma, but is hoping to sufficiently impress Frank this autumn to be added after the league phase.
“To be honest, I was very, very mad for a lot of weeks,” he recalled.
“But I was like, ‘use this and show him you need to be on the squad list’. Bad things help me more than good things to be better.
“I’m a fair person and I was not on a good day for the [Super Cup] final, I didn’t play well enough.
“After the game against Leeds, [Frank] pushed me to the fans and that was quite emotional for me because he showed me that ‘I didn’t put you in the squad, but you’re still there, I still believe in you’.”