Davinson Sanchez admits he and his Tottenham team-mates need to pull their fingers out when the Premier League season resumes.
Jose Mourinho’s side were on a miserable run of four defeats and two draws in six games when football ground to a halt - including a 4-0 aggregate defeat to German side RB Leipzig in the Champions League.
And Sanchez knows that sort of form is not good enough if Spurs want to qualify for the Champions League again this season.
The centre-back said: “Everyone knows as a team we expect to do better.
“The Premier League is always hard but we need to improve, that’s why we put so much work in every day.
“We’ll see what’s going to happen but, looking back, we can’t play like we were doing before.
“We have to do better if we are going to finish in the position that we want.”
Sanchez and Co are back in phase one of training as football gears up for a resumption next month.
He added: “It’s good to see your team-mates working, not by your side, but doing the same things you're doing.
“Right now we’re back at the training ground and respecting all the processes.
“We say, ‘Oh it’s a long time’, but there’s nothing we can do and we have to accept this.
“As footballers, we want to be training. We can work from home one, two, or three times a week but it's not the same.
“I've been working in the garden, watering the plants.
“I’ve been in the kitchen too, lots of cleaning, my wife is happy.”
Tottenham are currently eighth in the Premier League table, seven points behind fourth-placed Chelsea and three behind Manchester United in fifth spot.
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