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Nacer Chadli can’t wait to make amends for two of the worst defeats of his career on born-again Tottenham’s red letter day.

Belgium World Cup star Chadli played in the humiliating 5-0 home defeat against Liverpool last December which earned manager Andre Villas-Boas the sack a week before Christmas.

And he was also involved in the 4-0 thumping at Anfield five months ago, which all but sealed Tim Sherwood’s short-lived reign as AVB’s successor.

Chadli scored twice and was outstanding as Spurs trounced QPR in new manager Mauricio Pochettino’s first home game last weekend, but Mario Balotelli’s likely debut for the Kop club at White Hart Lane on Sunday will be an acid test of Tottenham’s restored confidence.

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One of seven new faces who arrived in AVB’s £110million spree last summer, Chadli admitted: “Liverpool showed last year they are a good team and we have something to make right against them.

“I played in the home game and the 4-0 one at Anfield and they were not the best parts of the season.

“But you have to learn from the experience of those games, however bad it was at the time. It was difficult to lose like that - I had never lost like that before and hopefully we can learn from it.”

Despite an unimpressive first season at White Hart Lane, Chadli resolved to stick around and make a better fist of it after helping the Belgians reach the quarter-finals in Brazil.

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He said: “I came back from the World Cup and nobody said I could leave. I didn’t have the best time last season, but I didn’t want to leave it like that. I would rather have taken my chances, stayed here and shown what I can do.

“Last season I struggled with injury at the start and physically I was down. It became a very hard season and I was disappointed with how it went - I wanted it to go much better.

“Now I am looking forward and with the new manager coming in it gives me a fresh start. We all know what we have to do on the pitch and what it takes to play in the Premier League.

“We have Emmanuel Adebayor at the top and then behind him, we have me, Christian Eriksen and Erik Lamela, who are all encouraged to change position during the game. That makes it very difficult for opponents to choose which one of us to pick up.

“It is a new way of playing and effectively we have three No.10s - that is good because we can also get the full-backs into forward positions and at times we can have five players supporting Ade when we go forward.”