Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank has apologized to the fans following his side’s disappointing defeat to rivals Arsenal in the North London Derby.

Spurs suffered another derby defeat as the Gunners thumped them 4-1 at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, November 23.

A hat-trick from Eberechi Eze and another goal from Leandro Trossard ensured that Richarlison’s superb long-range effort only counted as a consolation.

Speaking in his post-match interview on Sky Sports, the former Brentford manager apologized to the fans for his team’s disappointing performance.

“I think it is extremely painful. I won’t talk away from that. It was a bad performance. It was completely the opposite of what the intention was when we came here.

“We can only apologise to the fans for the performance.

“I think no matter if both teams wanted to play shirt [sic], they got more out of that and we couldn’t get out.

“When the team went long, we didn’t win enough duels. That is exemplified by the 2-0 goal and the 3-0 goal, where a player went through two or three players. Bad performance and we lost.

“I have seen a lot of character and fight in this team, but we didn’t win enough duels. We can call that whatever we want, but we didn’t win enough.”

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