Igor Tudor left with mixed feelings after Tottenham exit despite his first win

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Igor Tudor was left with mixed emotions after Tottenham bowed out of the Champions League with a 7-5 aggregate defeat to Atletico Madrid but only after a spirited second-leg win.A brace by Xavi Simons after Randal Kolo Muani’s 30th-minute opener helped Spurs clinch a first home victory since January 20, a first under Tudor, and end an eight-match winless streak.Tottenham had slipped from one crisis to another in 2026 and a shambolic 5-2 loss in Madrid last week left Tudor on the brink, but a battling 1-1 draw at Liverpool restored belief and more pride was clawed back with this morale-boosting 3-2 victory ahead of Sunday’s crunch Premier League fixture at home to Nottingham Forest.

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00:05The feelings are mixed, of course, we are out, but in the same way, as you said, it was

00:10like a sensation of one very good team in the pitch, one very good performance of the

00:20players, the energy, as you said before, was really nice from the first moment.

00:27They recognize that the team will try to do everything that they can do, so from the first

00:33moment until the last moment they were with us.

00:36Beautiful, thanks.

00:37So after seeing today there is even more question about the first game, if it didn't happen,

00:49that I believe we have a good chance to pass against Atletico Madrid, even I need to repeat

00:57that today we have again 11 players and on the bench just one player.

01:05One player is Danso, so on the bench and all three players, Bergwald, Udoji and Conor, the

01:13doctor said they can play at least a maximum 20 minutes, 25 minutes.

01:18So imagine the situation, imagine the value of this victory here, the value of this performance

01:24is even bigger because of these things.

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