Thomas Frank admitted we experienced a “bad combination” of Bayern Munich hitting their levels and us not managing to do the same as we suffered a heavy defeat in our last game of pre-season on Thursday night.
The Bundesliga champions hit four impressive, unanswered goals at Allianz Arena – and in truth could have scored more – as we ended up on the wrong end of a 4-0 scoreline.
It was a disappointing conclusion to what has in general been a positive pre-season campaign, with Thomas confirming that he wanted to see more energy from the players on the night.
“We were obviously playing a very good team tonight,” he told SPURSPLAY. “Bayern in my opinion are one of the teams that probably are favourites to win the Champions League. They hit a good level, we didn’t hit a good level, that’s a bad combination but we will definitely learn from this one. I definitely got some answers that we will look into and we will calmly reflect on it after the game now and look through it. Also it seems like we lacked some energy somehow which we need to find – no team can play without that energy.”
All roads now lead to Udine and the UEFA Super Cup showdown with Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.
“We will 100 per cent be ready for that game, I’m not in doubt about that,” added the Head Coach. “There are six days ahead, we have a normal week for the first time in the last two weeks so with everything – just getting down, less travel, energise them (the players), three or four good sessions – then we will be ready against PSG.”
Thursday’s result in Germany was our first loss of the summer, with Thomas underlining the need for consistency as we move towards the start of the competitive campaign.
Assessing pre-season in general, he said: “As a whole, from the start to now, I think overall it’s positive. It was a negative performance today and a negative result but overall there have been some really positive performances – the Arsenal one, we were pretty happy with a lot of bits in the Newcastle one – then it’s about that consistency in the team and the principles we want to get into the players. It will take a bit to get up to that consistent level that we want to but I’m not in doubt we will get there.”
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