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da dobrowin： Moussa Sissoko has maintained that Tottenham Hotspur can get back to their best despite a poor start to the season, per the club’s official website.
What’s he said?
The France international has started every single game in the Premier League this season, but Spurs have won just three of those encounters.
Indeed, Mauricio Pochettino’s men are currently 11th in the top-flight, eight points behind both Leicester City and Chelsea in third and fourth respectively.
But Sissoko is confident that he and his team-mates have the ability to turn their form around and begin to climb the table.
He said: “Like always, I give my best for the team and that’s what I will always do, like every player, until the end of the season.
“We are together and we want success together. Of course, the results in the last few weeks haven’t been great for us, but that’s football, that’s life.
“Sometimes it can be like this and we have to work our way through it, stick together and I’m sure good things will follow soon.”
Nonsense quotes
What’s the point of coming out with cookie-cutter quotes that supporters will surely find infuriating?
At the end of the day, all that matters – clichéd as it may be – is the score at the final whistle.
It is all very well coming out with these template words but Sissoko, of all people, needs to start backing everything up on the pitch.
He has been one of the club’s most improved players and, obviously, Pochettino trusts him.
But he has yet to add an end product to his play. On Sunday, against Liverpool, as Spurs lost 2-1, he had a prime opportunity to play in Son Heung-Min in the final 10 minutes but he ended up playing the ball through to Reds goalkeeper Alisson Becker instead.
Indeed, per WhoScored, while he has laid on one assist this season, he averages just 0.5 key passes per game, is dispossessed on average 0.9 times and has 1.7 unsuccessful touches.
Sissoko would do better to work on adding an end product to his game instead of pontificating about his side’s chances.