Mathys Tel has opened up about his start at Tottenham and his first goal for the club, which came in a defeat at Aston Villa.
Mathys Tel has revealed he is “not scared about the future” after tasting defeat in his first two Tottenham games. Joining on loan from Bayern Munich on the final day of the January transfer window with an option to make the move permanent, the Frenchman debuted off the bench against Liverpool on Thursday evening. Tel was then handed a start in Sunday’s 2-1 defeat against Aston Villa in the fourth round of the FA Cup. The 19-year-old opened his Spurs account in stoppage time with a well-taken volley in the box after Dejan Kulusevski had picked him out with a precise cross.
Tel will likely be handed another start on Sunday evening when Tottenham host Manchester United at home in the Premier League. Amid Tottenham’s current woes with the team 14th in the table and now only remaining in one cup competition this season, the new man has admitted he knows the quality of his teammates and staff and he fully believes in them.
Honestly, we are sad about the results, but I know the quality of my team-mates, the staff… I believe in them. I’m not scared about the future,” he said in his interview with SPURSPLAY. “We play next week against Manchester [United] and we are going to do our jobs. “We have to be better, to do much more on the pitch and we will see what happens. Our mentality doesn’t move. We have to keep this energy and keep going until the end.” A difficult beginning to his Tottenham career in terms of the two cup exits, Tel has admitted that, despite the two defeats, it has been a good start to his time at Spurs after registering his first goal. That is something he
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