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Letting a two goal lead slip again, how big a concern?

No I am not concerned look at Juventus vs Atletico Madrid yesterday. That is football. When you play away from home against a team like Arsenal, against a team like Olympiakos always you can concede goals. It is a coincidence that in the last few games we concede a leading result. That is football. We talk in football always it is about experience, a good mix with young, with energy, with different things that make very complex that game and of course always it is difficult to accept because you are very disappointed and we need to be pushing and improving.

Is training going to be harder?

Depend how the people took my words, I never said that, that doesn't mean we are going to run more or spend more time at the training centre. I think I wanted to say to keep the level we showed the concentration and the focus we showed in the first half of Palace is the challenge to show the rest of the season. When we are in a very good mental level and we are focused and connected we have a strong team with a lot of quality. If not always we are going to struggle, you can win and you can lose but always you can avoid this type of situation. You can asses physical or tactical the team but in their mental aspect there are a lot of things that can influence the player and the collective to care more than another aspect of the team.

Mentally tougher?

I don't say that, we need to improve like we need to improve in all the aspects. We need to improve in this type of situation - leading against Arsenal, leading 2-0 against Olympiakos. We are not talking about quality we are talking to be in this type of situation to manage it better. Look a few months ago we played the final of the Champions League, we were not talking about mentality because we play the final. We got a lot of prize because we played the final.

To be all on the same page, we have altogether to create the dynamic to watch every opponent not only our physical condition, our motivation and you must be with your mentality, your will is so important, we need to work to try and improve.

Are you happy with Christian Eriksen's form?

No, I am happy with the performance. Maybe yesterday wasn't his best game like the team. The collective performance wasn't the best from us. I am happy with the commitment of Christian, he run a lot and was very committed with the team, the effort but I think I am not concerned about him

Likewise, Dele Alli?

Dele is a different situation from Christian. He got injured from the beginning of the season. I think it was his first start of the season. He needs time to recover his best feeling. I am happy with him too, his performance yesterday, effort, only he needs time.

Palace performance?

First 45 minutes, yes brilliant, second no. Yesterday I think we were talking, we were talking about our approach of the game. After 15 or 12 seconds we shoot, not on target but from Harry Winks, in the way that we approached the game was the difference.

Only if you watch the first two minutes of Palace and yesterday you can see the difference is not quality, is not about the talent. It is about yesterday the first shot was from them and they kept the position for more than two minutes and we couldn't keep the ball. The approach was completely different and how it affect the game.

The main reason that we didn't keep the game when we were 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0 I am not concerned. I think it is process that we need to improve and I am very optimistic.

Not sticking to plan, what was the plan?

We were talking at half-time that our positional game, the plan was different and that is why we changed after 20 minutes, we decided to play with Lucas close to Harry Kane as striker with Christian on the right and Dele on the left.

We have different plans to play, we have different set-ups in possession and out of possession. We were not happy in the first 20 minutes because our organisation was not the best. We scored two goals, but the feeling wasn't great.

We didn't control the game, we didn't dominate the way we wanted to. That is why we conceded another goal and the draw. We all agree, the players, for different reasons we didn't play in the way we planned to play, but this happens.

It happens at Tottenham, it happens at different teams and the most important is to realise and to fix the problem. In the second half we were much better, unlucky to concede a penalty - a soft penalty - but I am very happy with the second half. It was the opposition with Palace. First half fine, second half not so good and Olympiacos the opposite.

How will the trip to Athens impact the side for Leicester?

We cannot think about that. We need to be ready to compete on Saturday.

We cannot change and only we can affect in a negative or positive way if we talk too much in one or another way. I prefer to talk positive. We have a big squad and we will assess the players and I hope to have a very good game and of course it will not be an excuse.

What happens, happens on Saturday morning. We need to approach the game in our best condition and we have time to recover and I will tell after game if I am happy or not and if we suffer with this travelling.

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What do you expect from Leicester?

We don't talk too much about Leicester because we arrive at 3 in morning and until 4 this morning we didn't arrive at the Lodge and this morning the most important was to rest and sleep.

Tomorrow we will talk about Leicester, but in the Premier League we know each other really well. Leicester is a very good team with a lot of unbelievable players and after winning the Premier League they rebuild their squad and today are doing fantastic with a great manager like Brendan Rodgers, who I know very well. They are doing a fantastic job.

What are you thoughts about what Harry Kane said about mistakes being made?

Be careful when you translate what the players say after the game to media because some time we can take in a different way the words. Always I respect what player say and you can assess what the player say.

I am not going to judge what one or another player is telling you because I wasn't there, so I cannot talk about the words and the intention. When you are disappointed you always look to try and improve. It was in different aspects I am talking and in my opinion we need to improve and in football you always need to improve.

Liverpool after two wins in CL, lose 2-0 against Napoli and City lose at Norwich and football is always dynamic and today. In every single game and every single season always you create goals and the things to improve and football is so dynamic and always it's about good and not so good performance, successful situations and not so successful situations.

The most important is the players realise we need to work hard and improve. That is the most important, but in 10 months always in different periods you have up and down and how we start the season we were not at our best, but our effort must be massive to improve in all the areas where we need to improve.

Before the start of the season, you said success for you would be winning a trophy?

For myself and my goal, of course.

In terms of winning PL trophy, do you need to win more games like Leicester away?

Of course, I agree.

Leicester, maybe side to break into top six?

We are in the same position. Tottenham and Leicester share the same position in the table, we have eight points.

Think Leicester will break into top six?

We will see, it's too early to talk about contenders and what will happen in the future. Still all the teams are finding their best. We only play five games in PL. Until you play between 10 and 15 games, it's difficult to see what will happen and the real contenders, teams who are going to be serious contender. It is still so early.

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Do you agree with Kane's comment about old mistakes?

I didn't hear. I cannot talk about things I didn't hear.

We need to be careful and my responsibility as a manager is to be careful. After the game, how you translate to me and the words or sentences are some time not in maybe the way he wanted to express or translate and that is why I will never judge the words of player after the game or in interview - never.

They are so free to talk in the way they want to talk, but most important is we share the same opinion in private that we need to improve and I think all the players in the squad feel the same and that we need to improve if we are to be a contender for big things.