Stan Collymore is not impressed with Tottenham Hotspur’s Champions League and Europa League performances.
Tottenham Hotspur are going strong in the Premier League and are likely to end up in the top four yet again, but their performances in Europe have not been great.
The North London outfit failed to finish in the top two in Champions League Group E this season.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side ended up third with seven points from six matches, three points behind runners-up Bayer Leverkusen and four behind group winners AS Monaco.
Spurs dropped to the Europa League, but there is a chance that they could fail to progress further in the competition.
The North London outfit went down 1-0 to KAA Gent away from home in Belgium in the first leg of the round of 32 on Thursday evening.
Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore is critical of Tottenham’s performances and results in the Champions League and the Europa League this season.
“And Spurs, the flag-bearer of all that is youthful and good about English player development and the core of the national team for years to come were dumped out of the Champions League and were woeful, inept and clueless against a side who are 8th, yes 8th, in the Belgian league,” Collymore wrote on Boylesports.com.
“Or to make an analogy closer to home, the same position that Dundee are in the SPFL, a similar league in quality to the Belgian league.”
Collymore does have a point about Tottenham. The North London outfit have a good team, but is it good enough to compete with the very best of Europe? Results this season suggest not…
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