Solanke: “We need to improve and we need to improve now”
Fri 06 March 2026, 17:00|
Tottenham Hotspur
Dominic Solanke knows we cannot dwell on past results. Now is the time to take responsibility, improve and fight for every result.
As he spoke to SPURSPLAY in the aftermath of Thursday night's 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace, the striker could not hide his sheer disappointment at the events of the evening but is well aware that we must look forward if we are to turn around our current difficult run of form.
The meeting with Palace was one that was looked to with such hope however a damaging end to the first half gave us a mountain to climb and it was not one we could overcome.
Dom was our goalscorer, getting the opener on 34 minutes to give us a much-needed lift - it was the first time we had taken the lead in a home league game since the start of January - but the following 18 minutes flipped the evening on its head as, after Micky van de Ven saw red, goals from Ismaila Sarr either side of a Jorgen Strand Larsen strike took the game away from us.
A turnaround is needed from us but Dom knows that the team's actions will speak louder than words in that regard. And that is where their focus is.
Us players on the pitch have to take the responsibility and ultimately change things as soon as possible
“It's another difficult one to take. Before the game, we looked at the game thinking that we definitely needed to win, but it's another game that's passed now and we need to realise that the position that we're in and keep fighting,” he told SPURSPLAY.
“We’ve had a little chat between us (players). We need to understand that we need to improve and we need to improve now. It's difficult, and obviously hard to say just with words. We need to show it on the pitch and that's something that we need to do as soon as possible."
"We obviously need to realise the position that we're in. We know it's been so difficult this season with the injuries etc, but we can't change that now. So, us players on the pitch have to take the responsibility and ultimately change that as soon as possible."
“It's difficult, just speaking, but we need to realise the position we're in, we need to fight every game, fight for every result, we haven't got many games left now."
“We need to see what's going wrong on the pitch, debrief that and see what we can change. We’re not in a position to dwell on anything right now, we need to make sure that in the next game we're going to be at it, seeing how we can improve."
