Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho is wary blunting their attack by fixing their defensive lapses.

Spurs have conceded 14 goals in eight games under their new head coach.

"I know how to do it," said Mourinho. "But to do it 100 per cent I am going to take away from the team some qualities that we want to keep.

"And then it is more difficult to do it because to play for a clean sheet and put all the focus on the clean sheet, on the improvement of the defensive organisation and try to kill the mistakes that we make, that is not difficult to do.

"The difficulty is to do it with the players as they are, with the habits they have, the difficult thing is to put it right defensively without losing the qualities we can have offensively."