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| Dele Alli sent off for a challenge in the first half of Thursday's Europa League draw. |
Mauricio Pochettino says Dele Alli is "very disappointed and sad"
after the midfielder was sent off as Tottenham crashed out of the Europa
League against KAA Gent on Thursday.
Alli picked up a straight red card for a horror tackle on Gent's
Brecht Dejaegere in the first half and the match finished 2-2, with Gent
progressing 3-2 on aggregate after their 1-0 win in Belgium last week.
It was the first red card of the 20-year-old's career and came with
the score at 1-1 after Harry Kane's own goal had cancelled out Christian
Eriksen's opener.
Spurs looked on course for a memorable win after Victor Wanyama's
fine strike left them needing one more goal to progress but Jeremy
Perbet equalised to seal the tie.
Pochettino refused to blame Alli for the result, however.
"He is very disappoited and sad. In football, it happens. He knows he
made a mistake," the Spurs manager told a postmatch news conference.
"Now he tries to move on and improve. In the future, we must avoid that [kind of] situation."
This time last year, Alli was lucky to pick up just a yellow card for
appearing to stamp on Fiorentina's Nenad Tomovic and after the game in
Italy Pochettino said he had "a lot to learn about elite football."
Reminded of those comments, the manager said: "It's difficult. That's
not to justify him but it's a different action. [Today] he was fouled
before, it was a clear foul. That's not to blame the referee but the
action came in very soon, that tackle.
"I think he deserved to be sent off. He knows. That kind of action can always happen.
"It's only one-and-a-half years he is playing for Tottenham in the
Premier League, everything that he has achieved in a very short period
is because he is special. A special player, a special boy. He has
unbelievable personality and character.
"Before that, he is a great player. In the same way, he is how he is
-- he is very passionate to play football and sometimes this action
happens. Now it's time to support him, he is very sad and disappointed
in the changing room."
Gent manager Hein Vanhaezebrouck also refused to blame Alli, even
though Dejaegere limped off with a bloodied shin in the second half,
still feeling the effects of the challenge.
"I don't think he did it on purpose but it was a red card -- it was
really dangerous and we lost our player. This happens in football when
teams go 100 percent in the duels, it's unlucky. I will not blame the
guy. He went for the dual fully, he was too late and it was really
dangerous," he said.
Pochettino was happy with his team's performance, saying the effort
was "unbelievable," but stressed they needed to recover quickly for
Sunday's Premier League home game against Stoke.
"It's key now to recover physically and mentally. On Sunday, a team
that is very fresh arrives. Be sure they will be ready to fight against
us. Now we move on and forget this competition," he said.
"We try to be focussed on Sunday and be ready to fight. The
competition doesn't wait for you, the competition pushes you to try to
give your best. Now is not time to cry, it is time to move on. Tomorrow
we start to prepare the game against Stoke."
ESPN
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