REVIVED SANCHEZ STAYING HUMBLE

without possession, with your movements.

“You hear your team-mates, saying ‘I’m going to push you’.

“If it’s not the manager it is your team-mates who are going better than you or getting more minutes than you.

“You have to deal with that and be humble. If it happens to you, you accept the only way to change is starting from yourself.”

Humility is, according to Sanchez, the necessary trait when the flak is flying from Mourinho.

The Spurs boss has been heavily critical of players making individual errors and the defender, still only 24, knows he has been at fault a couple of times.

Sanchez added: “You have to be humble when somebody is, not blaming you but, having to say something isn’t right or correct.

“You need to accept it, be humble and take it.

“Of course, it’s not trying to put that in the bin and forget it.

“You keep going because if someone is saying something like that to you, it’s because they know you can do a lot better than that.

“The manager is very direct and wants the best for the team.

“No manager wants to get bad results. He is very honest with everybody, from who is doing well and involved, to who is not in the best form or needs to work.

“We are here to perform and to get results and of course, as a professional, you can have good periods or not as good as you expect and then bad periods can come, too.”

For Sanchez, today’s clash with Arsenal will be his sixth North London derby, with Spurs winning two and drawing two of them.

He said: “This is my fourth season, so I’ve been involved in a few of them and it is massive.

“It is a game that right now is not just for three points, it’s a game for pride and to keep fighting for the top four.

“There are no fans but there’s still a lot of pressure to get a good result in their stadium.”