Source: Daily_Mail
Peter Crouch admits Spurs must learn to kill teams
Peter Crouch has admitted Tottenham must find a killer instinct to close games out if they are to progress in the Champions League.[LNB]Spurs let slip a 2-0 lead at Werder Bremen in Germany on Tuesday night, as the Londoners drew their opening group game.[LNB]Crouch, who scored Tottenham's second goal, said 'When you are away from home in the Champions League, the other team are always going to have chances.[LNB] Happy days: Peter Crouch celebrates after scoring Tottenham's second goal[LNB]'You have to defend well and ride out that storm. I think the disappointing thing was the goal just before half-time. That gave them hope and made their half-time team talk a lot easier.[LNB]'We needed to carry on what we were doing. We were murdering them at times, certainly down the left-hand side with Gareth Bale, who was fantastic again, and I think we could have gone on and got more.[LNB]'We should have kept the ball more and kept going forward - we sat back a little bit and invited too much pressure on but that is something we will learn with experience.'[LNB] Heads up: Crouch scores Tottenham's second goal in Bremen[LNB]Spurs face FC Twente in a fortnight, a game they will be desperate to win with two games against European champions Inter Milan looming large.[LNB]Crouch added: 'We proved that we can be a match for any side but we don't want to get carried away because it is only one game.[LNB]'If you start taking your eye off the ball in this competition, then you get punished. We cannot allow that to happen.'[LNB] Redknapp happy to make his point at as Spurs boss predicts tight groupSilvestre: There's no way I could have followed Gallas to Tottenham TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC
