Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris declared themselves a "mess" after their 6-1 thrashing at Newcastle.

Newcastle strengthened their top four hopes at the expense of Spurs on Sunday.

Lloris said, "We can try to find excuses and analyse the performances but the first thing is we miss the fight. In football if you go on the pitch without the desire to show aggressiveness makes things very hard.

"It was a bit of a mess on the field.

"We cannot hide ourselves behind the club's problems, we are professionals but today there was too much lacked. There was a differences in level between Newcastle and Tottenham. We have two very difficult games to bounce back with in midweek."

Of being substituted at halftime with an injury, Lloris added: "My injury does not sound good, I don't know if it's a muscle but around the hip when I kicked. It doesn't sound good."