Latest Spurs news: Mauricio Pochettino wants team to “move on” after 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth

Tottenham’s top four hopes took a blow at the Vitality on Saturday as Bournemouth ran out 1-0 winners.

Nathan Ake scored in stoppage time as Tottenham saw two players sent off, with each receiving a red card on either side of half-time.

Son Heung-min was the first to go before substitute Juan Foyth was also given a straight red.

Spurs were lucky not to give away a penalty and Eric Dier could have been sent off after a second rash challenge in the first half.

Mauricio Pochettino was asked about the team’s performance after the game but the manager wanted the side to concentrate on the Champions League tie in midweek (h/t Evening Standard):

“That is football. It’s impossible to manage everything. After fighting for all the second half with nine players, conceding the goal in the last minute is always cruel but that is football.

“They are the circumstances that we must accept and we need to move on because now it’s wasting time in analysing too much because we have ahead two games, the [Champions League] semi-final against Ajax and at the weekend against Everton, two finals that depend on us.

“The most important thing now is to move on.”

Spurs lucky not to lose other players

The manager further spoke about the referee’s decisions and claimed that we had to accept it.

Pochettino confirmed that Dier and Toby Alderweireld were subbed off at half-time as the pair were in danger of getting a second yellow.

The gaffer had his run-in with a referee earlier in the season too, and he is right to not criticise the official. The decision to send off Son was right but Jefferson Lerma should have had action taken against him.

Foyth’s red was a straightforward decision as he went full-tilt into a dangerous tackle just a couple of minutes after coming on.

Pochettino is right in saying we need to move on and overturn a 1-0 deficit in the Champions League semi-final first leg against Ajax on Wednesday.

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We can confirm a top-four spot by winning against Everton next weekend, but anything less wouldn’t hurt us either.