Hugo reflects on 'important' Barcelona trip

Hugo Lloris says the players are feeling refreshed and ready to push on for the second half of the season after arriving back from Barcelona.

Mauricio Pochettino flew the lads out to Spain for a mid-season, warm weather training camp at the weekend – the third year in a row that they’ve been on such an excursion.

After a day off on Sunday, the players trained for three consecutive days between Monday and Wednesday before heading back to London as preparations continue for our trip to Southampton at the weekend.

“Like the last few years, it was a good experience for the togetherness in the group,” said club captain Hugo, reflecting on the trip.

“To see different things, to do different things together is so important. At the same time you stay together and that’s good too.

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“It’s an opportunity to know the new players better who arrived last summer because you share 24 hours with them. Like the last few seasons it’s a very good experience and now we start again to work.”

With an eight-day gap between last Saturday’s 4-0 victory over Everton and this Sunday’s visit to St Mary’s, Hugo said the timing of the trip was perfect.

“I think it was a good time to switch off because we are lucky that the next game is on Sunday,” added the goalkeeper. “At the same time we did some good work and that’s important.

“Now we will be back to our routine and we will prepare for the next game as well as possible like we normally do.”