Tottenham Hotspur lost to AS Monaco in the Champions League on Wednesday evening.
Former Leicester City and Derby County midfielder Robbie Savage has suggested in The Mirror that Tottenham Hotspur have no one but themselves to blame for the defeat to AS Monaco on Wednesday evening.
Tottenham suffered a 2-1 defeat to Monaco at the Wembley Stadium in the Champions League Group E.
The North London outfit conceded twice after just 31 minutes, although Toby Alderweireld’s goal on the stroke of half time gave Spurs some hope.
Savage has suggested that Spurs’ defeat to Monaco was due to the fact that they conceded twice inside the first half an hour or so, not due to the game being played at Wembley.
The former Wales international has also suggested that Monaco were always capable of winning against Tottenham.
“Tottenham are not the first club to discover playing Champions League home games at Wembley is not a bed of roses,” Savage wrote in The Mirror.
“It doesn’t matter two hoots if you are backed by 85,000 fans, or that manager Mauricio Pochettino has three pitches at the training ground marked out to the exact measurements of Wembley’s surface area, if you give away two poor goals in the opening half an hour.
“And if anyone thought Monaco, who are early-season leaders in France, would just roll over for them, they should have asked the neighbours. Remember who knocked Arsenal out of the Champions League last year?”
Monaco are a decent side, but Tottenham were favourites heading into the match.
Dropping all three points at ‘home’ in their opening game could prove costly for Mauricio Pochettino’s side.
The North London outfit simply cannot afford to drop any more points at Wembley if they are to progress to the last 16 of the Champions League this season.
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