Lloris: Spurs are gearing up for a fight to finish

HUGO LLORIS admits he has struggled with the mental and physical demands of the first half of the season and the disappointment of France’s World Cup final defeat to Argentina.

- Tom Hopkinson

The goalkeeper also knows Tottenham haven’t been good enough form-wise or points-wise this time out.

But experience tells the Frenchman, who has dropped a couple of major howlers since the World Cup, that the most important part of the campaign is still to come.

And he knows he and his Spurs team-mates need to be ready to do everything they can to change all that at the business end of the season.

Lloris said: “You have to take into consideration that it’s not a normal season.

“From the beginning of September, we played every three days until the World Cup.