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De Zerbi: Spurs Must Silence Negative Thoughts With Four Games Left

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De Zerbi focuses on mental reset

James Maddison is back on the bench and could play a role in Spurs’ final games after returning from an August ACL injury.


Tottenham ended a winless run since December by beating Wolves, but lost Xavi Simons to a season-ending ACL injury...


Tottenham Hotspur coach Roberto De Zerbi is focused on clearing negative thoughts from his players’ minds as Spurs fight to avoid relegation, sitting two points below safety with four matches left.

  
Spurs ended a run without a league win since December by beating bottom side Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend, but lost attacking midfielder Xavi Simons to a cruciate ligament rupture that rules him out for the rest of the season.


De Zerbi’s team travel to fifth-placed Aston Villa on Sunday, and the coach, who took over a month ago, wants to eliminate the negativity around the side’s performances.


“Listen, I want to be clear one time. The most important challenge now is to silence the voice inside of us, inside of the players, inside the staff, the fans,” he told reporters on Friday


“This voice produces negative thoughts and the voice says 'we are unlucky, we have too many injuries. We lost Xavi Simons and he was in the last two games one of the most important players for us.


“'Our medical staff is not good enough, the pitch of the stadium is not good... winning two or three games in a row is impossible ⁠because we hadn't won a game in 2026'. I think it's all negative things and it's rubbish.”


De Zerbi said attention should be on the quality within the Spurs squad, which has taken four points from its last two games.


“We go to ‌play against one of the best teams... but if Tottenham win at Villa Park it's not a miracle. Maybe we lose but we have the quality to win this game. It’s not a miracle. We have to be positive,” he said.



Maddison Nearing Return

De Zerbi said midfielder James Maddison, who has been back on the bench but hasn’t featured since a cruciate ligament injury in August, could contribute in the final games of the season.


“I'd like to ‌play with him because he is a special player but we have to consider physical condition, a lot of things, but I think ‌he can be important in the next three games,” the manager added.



“In summer we can do everything. Everything. We have a lot of ⁠time to spend speaking about football, ⁠about the transfer market, about ‌everything we can improve. We will,”  he said.

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