Toby Alderweireld admits Tottenham have hit rock bottom.

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is facing a major battle to turn fortunes around after their humiliating Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich which has left their whole season in danger of spiralling towards disaster.

Alderweireld said: “I'm in my fifth year at the club. It's not only going up, you know, that's the way football works. Even if you don't like it, it's just the way it works.

"You see every big club you see that sometimes the purity of not playing the best football they're not in a good moment and you have to try to change this. It's not easy but we have to try.

“We have to stick together now in this, it's not someone to blame or is to blame. Everybody makes mistakes today with all the mistakes, but you have to pick ourselves up and try to be to come out to this as a team.

“We will talk and then we will prepare ourselves the best way possible for Saturday because that's the next game and the best way to get us out of the situation is to win the next game and then try to improve and it's not easy.

“I'm not going to lie this is a big loss, we feel the pain, everyone in the dressing room was just quiet and, like I felt from everyone the pain so it's not easy, but we have to work hard to do.

"And there are highs and lows and now we are we're down there you know. The only way up is to work."