SPURS NEED WIN-WIN SITUATION

TOTTENHAM may have escaped the March madness, but they have been hit by April showers after winning their first two games this month.

It was during this time that defender Jan Vertonghen thinks they stopped short of reaching their full potential. Spurs have yet to find any consistency this month and the Belgium international admits this is one of the reasons they came up short last season. He said: “I definitely think we’ve improved with this season’s results. We’ve shown that we can beat everyone. But we always have this month where we haven’t won a couple of games in a row. Then when you have a team that wins every week, it’s going to be hard to challenge for the league.

“We have to solve that inconsistency. Get rid of that month that costs us at the end of the season. But if we keep working, like we do now, we can improve.”

Spurs hope to beat Watford tomorrow to erase the painful memory of losing to Man United in last week’s FA Cup semi-final.

Vertonghen (left) added: “It was a massive disappointment. Again we dominated the game, apart from 10 to 15 minutes, and we deserved to be 1-0 up, maybe 2-0 and then obviously we didn’t do that and United had the quality to kill the game, to stay 2-1 up.

“It was a disappointment because this group feels we deserve to be in a final, to win a trophy, and it’s a shame we didn’t.”

There is speculation Spurs could lose players this summer, including Vertonghen’s Belgium team-mate Toby Alderweireld, while boss Mauricio Pochettino is admired by Real Madrid.

Vertonghen knows it is important to stay together, having already spoken about how this group of players can acheive success.

He added: “I’d like everyone to stay. It isn’t my decision. I don’t get involved in transfers.”

TONY STENSON