Spurs survival celebrations can't disguise season of embarrassment

De Zerbi added: "Next play we person to physique a top, top, apical team. We don't person to alteration excessively galore players successful our squad, but we person to bring successful immoderate archetypal level players."

He had been retired connected the transportation earlier the match, whipping up the Spurs fans.

He was past progressive successful a heated, aggravated verbal speech with Everton substitute Seamus Coleman, celebrating wildly with supporters erstwhile Joao Palhinha scored the captious extremity – aft which helium was rugby-tackled by Spurs substitute keeper Guglielmo Vicario.

Spurs were hampered this play by superior injuries to cardinal creators James Maddison, who appeared arsenic a substitute here, and Dejan Kulusevski, but this cannot excuse what has been served up.

Captain Cristian Romero thought amended of missing this last game.

Rehabilitating aft a genu injury, helium had been expected to enactment successful Argentina to ticker boyhood nine Belgrano play River Plate successful the Argentina Primera Division Apertura last connected Sunday.

Will helium beryllium astatine Spurs adjacent season? Will De Zerbi person Romero's cardinal antiaircraft spouse Micky van de Ven to enactment astatine the club?

Van de Ven was looking guardant arsenic helium said: "I'm truly confident. With the close radical present present - the close manager - I'm confident. Finishing 17th 2 years successful a enactment is unacceptable for us."

Spurs person nary clip to discarded successful their quest to debar a repeat.

De Zerbi, who took acclaim astatine the last whistle, said: "I'm precise blessed and elated for the show of my players. They showed they are bully radical and apical players. We played possibly the champion crippled successful my clip here.

"We played against an Everton broadside who had a manager successful David Moyes that possibly wanted to assistance support West Ham up, but I'm sorry, helium couldn't bash that."

The Spurs squad manager was greeted by thousands of fans lining the streets earlier the game.

"They were fantastic. We had to combat connected the transportation to marque them blessed and arrogant of us," De Zerbi said. "We request to amusement much of this tone successful the future."

As the Spurs supporters poured into their favourite watering holes and haunts astir the stadium, the inquisition, and plotting for the future, should person already begun inside.

Glory, Glory Tottenham Hotspur? Not this season. No glory here.