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Tottenham captain Son Heung-min has been speaking to Sky Sports about the defeat: "Very disappointed with the result and conceding six goals is really painful.

"What can I say? As a footballer, you always want to play. At the moment, we have to work hard. I don't want to make any excuses. We tried to be as sharp as possible.

"There is no question as to why they are top of the league. You can see [they have] quality players with top discipline. There is a reason they are top. If you give them a mistake, they punish you.

"Football is always risky, even if you sit back you can still concede so many goals. We have to stick together in difficult times and also in good times.

"Today is painful. We have to move together and bounce back stronger."

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Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has been speaking to BBC Sport about the defeat: "It is obviously a painful one for us. Credit to Liverpool, they were too good for us. They are in a great moment, great form, feeling confident.

"It was a bridge too far for us. We looked like we lacked energy, which is understandable."

When asked if any factors apart from injuries are behind their defensive struggles, he replied: "I'm just going to stop answering these questions. If people can't see the obvious, I'm not going to point it out.

"Make of it what you want. Yes, we are conceding goals.

"If you want to discount the fact we are missing a goalkeeper, two centre-backs and left-back - and say that hasn't coincided with what we are doing - I don't know what to say anymore.

"I think people make up their mind in their own way. They either think what I'm doing is good or bad, and that is fine.

"It is fairly significant [the injury situation]. If you took out Liverpool's goalkeeper, two centre-backs and a left-back - or any team other than Liverpool - they would find it tough going as well."

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Tottenham have conceded the opening goal in 14 different home games in the Premier League in 2024 - the joint-most by a team within a calendar year in the competition (also Crystal Palace in 2017, plus Ipswich and Spurs in 1994).

Tottenham have conceded 31 goals in Premier League home games in 2024 - their most in a single calendar year since 2007 (34). This was just the second time they had conceded six goals in a Premier League home match, along with a 6-1 defeat against Chelsea in December 1997.

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• Fulham v Southampton

• Leicester v Wolves

• Man Utd v Bournemouth - listen on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

• Tottenham v Liverpool (16:30) - listen on BBC Radio 5 Live

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Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against a variety of guests.

For week 17, he takes on Reverend & the Makers singer Jon McClure.

Sutton's prediction: 2-3

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou said this week that management is a harder job than being prime minister and, from my spell in charge of Lincoln, I can testify to that.

Postecoglou knows all about the highs and lows that managers can experience from one week to the next, because that has been the story of Spurs' season.

The same might apply just to this game too. While I think Tottenham will get some joy because it is going to be action packed, Liverpool will not lie down and I fancy them to come out on top.

How Spurs deal with Mohamed Salah on the counter-attack is going to be key, but I cannot see them stopping him completely.

People might look at Liverpool's draw with Fulham last weekend and think it was not a great result for Arne Slot's side but I was there and, honestly, the way they played with 10 men was incredible. They looked like they were the team with the extra man.

McClure's prediction: 1-2

Spurs are weird because you never know if they are going to turn up or not. Like Sheffield Wednesday (who McClure supports), they seem better away from home, too. I don't know if it is because they play on the break?

I am going with Liverpool here though. They have made the appointment of the decade in Slot. He has kept what was good about the Jurgen Klopp era - the high press and all that - but they just seem a little bit more street smart.

I have to say I love his interview style too because he is very honest. I think he is wonderful and think he is going to do great things at Liverpool.

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Mandeep Sanghera
BBC Sport journalist

It is not often you hear a Premier League manager saying he wants one of his rivals to win a trophy but that was the case when Liverpool boss Arne Slot spoke about Tottenham counterpart Ange Postecoglou earlier today.

Slot, who was heavily linked with Spurs in 2023, expressed his view as, for the good of football, he wants Postecoglou to earn some physical recognition for his attacking tactics at the London club.

And, while Slot will be rooting for Tottenham in the Europa League rather than stopping the Reds winning any silverware, he will not want Spurs taking any points off his side when they meet in the league on Sunday (16:30 GMT).

Liverpool could be usurped at the Premier League summit before they play if Chelsea win at Everton but, although the Reds have had their lead cut following two top-flight draws, Slot was not showing any signs of being troubled by such a scenario.

Instead, he pointed out that the league table should only be used as a guide at the 19 game mark when everyone has played each other.

Slot has highlighted a few times this season how opposing teams have changed their tactics to nullify his team but, with Spurs unlikely to do so, it should make for entertaining viewing on Sunday.

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has been speaking to the media before Sunday's Premier League game against Liverpool (kick-off 16:30 GMT).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• He is hopeful there are no new injuries from Thursday's game against Manchester United but the players are only just arriving for today's training session.

• Winger Mikey Moore "needs a couple of weeks training to get him up to speed" before he can return to the squad.

• On Guglielmo Vicario's recovery: "Going well. Typical Vic as he's pushing every boundary. He's still a fair bit away but he'll make sure he's back as quickly as possible. He's still around the group and invested in what we're doing. He's progressing well."

• Forward Timo Werner, who missed the Carabao Cup game due to illness, is expected recover in time and Destiny Udogie "should be OK."

• Postecoglou said "a big part of our game is entertainment" and Thursday's game was an example of that: "You go to a game to feel emotions that maybe in your day to day you don't get to experience. That's what we love about it. There's a lot of suffering when watching a game but if you come out on the right side, it's exhilarating."

• On whether Spurs will be as attacking against Liverpool: "We will play our football as that is what is winning us games. Arne Slot has come in and it's not easy when you're taking over from the status of Jurgen Klopp. They are settled with the quality they have but on our day we are pretty good opposition."

• He said he "would be very surprised" if Sunday's game was to be goalless given the attacking strengths of both sides.

• On Archie Gray playing as centre-back: "He's been outstanding. We have no choice as we have no other centre-backs. He's 18 years old but he's a man in every sense of the word and he's handled it brilliantly."

• He said "there's no choice" for Fraser Forster but to move on from his mistakes against United and look ahead to the "big game" against Liverpool, adding: "You can wallow in the negativity but my attitude to everything in life is that you just have to keep going."

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