Lloris: Lessons were learned from Tottenham’s Champions League failure

Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris says that his club learned valuable lessons from their Champions League failure last season.

Mauricio Pochettino’s side crashed out at the group stage of Europe’s top competition – but bounced back to finish strongly in the Premier League as runners-up behind Chelsea.

Spurs played all their European games at Wembley last season and will play every match at the national stadium next season while their new ground is being built.

They lost at Wembley to Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen but beat CSKA Moscow in their final home game as they failed to make it out of the group.

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However, Lloris is confident that Spurs have learned from their mistakes from last season.

He said: “The only disappointment was the Champions League.

“That was a strange campaign. It wasn’t Tottenham. It wasn’t our identity and we can have some regrets.

“I did question how we might deal with that back in the Premier League because we fought all last season to get into the Champions League and as soon as you are there, you fail – and not just the results but the way we played.

“The reaction of the team was fantastic, though, and step by step, we became stronger and stronger. That means we learned from our mistakes and that’s positive.”