Guglielmo Vicario exposes brutal Tottenham reality after Chelsea loss

Guglielmo Vicario has warned Tottenham need to do some soul-searching before the visit of Copenhagen. Spurs, who recorded their lowest-ever Premier League xG (0.05) against Chelsea, also play Manchester United, Arsenal and PSG in their next four outings.

Vicario accepts there is no sugarcoating how bad Tottenham were against the Blues, stating: "It's tough to accept but this is the reality of today's game. We need to look inside us and we need to do more because when you play for this club, we have to do things at 100 per cent.

"I know it's tough but we have to do that every single day." In the past year, Spurs have won just four Premier League games on home soil and the scoreline would have been more humbling had it not been for Vicario's eight saves.

He added on the Tottenham dressing room: "When you go inside it's tough to accept because you expect yourself to perform at your best, with a lot of energy but something today didn't go in the right direction.

"Everyone knows that personally, we have to do a little bit more if we want to achieve good results, make everyone happy and make ourselves happy. Today is a bad day for us, we didn't perform at our best level."

Thomas Frank was extremely disappointed with the performance and the result at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with the Dane insisting his side deserved to lose. "We all sense the frustration and the emotions," he said.

"That is part of football. It is extremely painful and of course that is part of the job to face you guys now and answer the very good questions when you just are burning inside. And you like to find solutions, watch the game back and see what went wrong, but I think it’s about trying to stay calm. In general, I think Chelsea were good and we were definitely second best.

"We performed badly. I think we lacked energy and intensity and 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 and then they went up 1-0 and we are chasing. Then it’s a bad circle where we are chasing, lacking intensity and energy and bad decisions."