December means only one thing for Tottenham Hotspur fans – yet another month of fixture congestion and burnout concerns for manager Jose Mourinho and the associated injury issues – okay, maybe that’s more than just one thing, but Thursday is our penultimate Europa League Group J clash and we face LASK once again.
With a pretty comfortable 3-0 victory in the effective first leg against LASK, Mourinho will shake the squad up again for this one after our battling draw against Chelsea, but we should have more than enough in the tank to take another win and secure our progression through to the next round – the Antwerp clash should simply decide who tops the table and takes J’s top spot.
As most will know, Toby Alderweireld is already ruled out for this clash with his injury and according to PhysioRoom also have Erik Lamela as remaining out of contention for this one.
We’ll wait for the official update, but few will see anything other than another victory here.
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You can bring a horse to the water but you cant make him drink it.
Attitude is a totally separate issue to motivation but yes, self-motivation should be expected however, there are times (for example following our champions league final defeat) when the mood of the squad or individual players will need to be lifted by outside influence and this is part of any managers remit.
I think you are being somewhat naive if you think the poor performances in th EL are largely down to the players attitude and/or lack of motivation and little to do with team selection and tactics.