‘Different type of football’ – Bale suggests Spurs ‘more suited’ to Europe than Premier League
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While on duty for TNT Sports at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Bale suggested Spurs perform better in Europe than they do domestically, and backed up his theory.
“It’s a different type of football, European football,” he explained. “You’re playing teams from different countries, it’s not so physical, it’s not so demanding.
“Everybody knows what the Premier League’s like, it’s very fast and furious. Maybe this team is more suited to European competition with the record last year in the Europa League.
“They somehow need to find a solution to playing in the Premier League and really improve their home form drastically, because their away form is pretty good.
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“If they can just change their home fortunes, get the crowd behind them and giving them their confidence back, and making this the fortress it used to be.”
However, they finished 17th-place in the Premier League in the same season – their worst finish in the top-flight since 1977.
This campaign has gone similarly, with Spurs sitting pretty in fourth in the Champions League behind only rivals Arsenal, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Their European campaign so far has been impressive with four wins – over Dortmund, Slavia Prague, Copenhagen and Villarreal – two draws and only one defeat.
But they have not managed to replicate that form domestically, where they sit 14th after 22 games with just 27 points.
Their home form has been particularly concerning, having won just two of their 11 Premier League games, losing six.
“You need to take each game as it comes,” Bale added, after a rare night of euphoria for Spurs in North London.
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“When you’re in these bad runs, you need to just focus on the next game. They got this out of the way, a positive result and a great performance, the team worked very hard in terms of their work rate, which showed the fans and the manager that they’re committed.
“Now they’ll turn their attention to the next game. It’s crazy in football, a week of good results can really change the mood and narrative of a club – hopefully that happens.”
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