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Thomas Frank hopes Xavi Simons’ performance against Brentford can be a sign of things to come from the forward.

Simons scored his first goal for the club in the 2-0 win over the Bees, after earlier setting up Richarlison for the opening goal.

And Frank says it can give the £52m summer signing a huge confidence boost having found himself in and out of the team since his arrival.

“I think every player needs that extra good performance,” Frank said.

“I’m so happy for him. He’s been working very hard. He’s a top pro. He’s so determined. He wants it so badly in every aspect of his game, and it’s just a little bit of adaptation, also the team is a little bit out of sync. Everything is coming more and more together and now we need to build on it.

“I think every player needs that extra bit of confidence and that comes from his performance, the team’s performance and I think that assist and the goal gave him that extra bit of lightness in his steps, in his touches and everything. So for him it was also an all-round very good performance.

“That’s what I believe from the beginning, that Xavi can produce that out of nothing. And I will say, everything just needs a little bit of adaptation sometimes. With everything, him, the team, everything, and this was a very good step.

“Now it’s the next thing to do it again and again and again. But yeah, very happy for him.”

Destiny Udogie missed the win through injury but Frank says he hopes it will not keep him out for long.

“He got a soft tissue issue, unfortunately against Newcastle,” he said.

When asked if it would keep the defender out for long, Frank responded: “Not too long.”

Frank also praised the fans for the support they gave the team, following a difficult atmosphere at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium of late given Spurs’ poor home form.

The Tottenham boss also pointed to the backing they gave goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, following Frank’s criticism of some fans who booed the Italian during the defeat to Fulham.

“The Spurs fans are great fans,” Frank said. “Sometimes there’s ups, sometimes there’s downs in football and life, but I like how the team responded. I like how the whole stadium and the fans responded.

“I noticed, maybe it was me, but I noticed when Vicario’s name was showed up, I think an extra high roar. I love that. That makes me warm inside because that’s where you support your player. Because they should… No-one, like no-one, how can you say, (should be) talking bad about our players.

“The fans should feel like that. They should protect them. I think today there was fantastic energy between both the team and the fans.”

Thomas Frank admits the reaction from some Spurs supporters towards his side’s 1-0 defeat to Chelsea was “painful”.

Many of the home fans booed their team at the final whistle after a drab 1-0 defeat to their London rivals in which Spurs struggled to create any real chances.

“Yes, 100 per cent,” Frank responded when asked if he understood the boos.

“I think we all sense the frustration and the emotions, that’s part of football.

“It’s extremely painful. Of course, that’s part of the job to face you guys now, to answer the very good questions when you’re just burning inside and you like to find solutions, watch the game back, see what went wrong, all that.

“But I think it’s about trying to stay calm in general. I think Chelsea were good. We were definitely second best. We performed badly.

“I think we lacked energy and intensity. That freshness, we didn’t have that. Then I think the high pressure they came with, I don’t think we solved it well enough, even though we worked on it. So that, we need to keep working on.

“I think our high pressure, we lacked a little bit in the beginning until we got on top of it.

“Then they went up 1-0 and then we were chasing, and that was just a bad circle. Chasing, lacking intensity and energy, bad decisions.”

Tottenham had a figure of just 0.05 expected goals against Chelsea – their lowest on record in a single Premier League game.

“I would say that, of course, hurts massively,” Frank said when asked about that stat.

“I’ve never been in charge of a team that created that little in one game, never. So that, of course, I will look into what we can do to make it better.

“But I think that’s one thing. I think everything is a little bit linked. And today, yeah, we didn’t hit the level.”

Tottenham Hotspur boss Thomas Frank has confirmed a double injury blow for his side, with both Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie ruled out of the game against Monaco.

Spurs have travelled to face Monaco in the Champions League, but they will be without captain Romero.

“It’s an adductor strain,” Frank confirmed. “We will assess it more this week before we confirm any timeframe.”

The Argentine defender had been set to start against Aston Villa on Sunday but picked up his injury in the warm up. He was removed from the lineup and will be absent again tomorrow night.

“No I don’t think so, it’s a strain,” Frank answered on whether fans should be concerned about Romero’s injury.

Udogie also missed last weekend’s Premier League match and he will not be in the squad to face Monaco either. The Dane said: “The latest is that he got that knee irritation after international duty.

“We are assessing and working very hard to get on top of it.

“We’ll know more day by day.”