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Tottenham boss Igor Tudor has been speaking to the media before Sunday's Premier League game against Fulham at Craven Cottage (14:00 GMT).
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
- Tudor confirmed both Pedro Porro and Kevin Danso are back and available, while Micky van de Ven has a "small problem in his little finger" but is "OK".
- Reflecting on Sunday's defeat by Arsenal, he said: "The less we speak, the better it is. It's about focusing on the daily work in training to climb up the table."
- Tudor was asked about a clip that surfaced on social media of Van de Ven appearing to ignore him during the North London derby defeat: "I saw that, but it was not an instruction to Micky, it was an instruction to the team, to go up. It was not about Micky. It was about the team coming up. We want to go up, because we want to play this style, that we press high, but the team is complicated at this moment. It's too much for them. So that's why it was the frustration of all that, but this is part of it, nothing special happened. He's a fantastic professional and a fantastic guy, he would not do something like this."
- Tudor was asked if the job as Tottenham's interim head coach was harder than he expected: "Probably yes. I agree with you. Very tough, but it is what I said before, I don't change my opinion. That is it. So daily work, focus on all things we need to do - physical condition, mental condition, performance and waiting on [injured] players to come back. So we need to be focused on us, what we can do, less thinking about others and it should be good."
- When asked whether he would go with a back three or experiment with his formation, Tudor implied points were more of an immediate focus than implementing his ethos. He said: "You need to be smart to understand deeper the moment and the way how to take the points, even not looking to the style now at this moment. So the style I need to be in the second moment, just because now it's a question of life and death, if I can say that in that way, sportingly, let's figure that out."
- On Friday's Champions League round of 16 draw: "I don't think too much about the draw. It doesn't change for me anything. It's a beautiful competition to play, everyone wants to play."
- Tudor continued by referencing Spurs' injury crisis: "The problem is the lack of numbers we have in the team. There's the problem - if you need to play every three days with 10,12, 13. Also it's not only about spending physical energy but also mental energy when every game for us in the league is a final. Not an ideal situation."
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