Thomas Frank responds to Tottenham fans’ boos after defeat to Chelsea
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.”
