James Maddison makes admission over Tottenham mentality after dramatic collapse in defeat to Brighton

A visibly delated Maddison fronted up successful a post-match interrogation aft the game, conceding that Spurs fell isolated excessively easily.

“Yeah it could person been definitely,” helium told Sky Sports erstwhile asked if his squad had struggled mentally and got carried distant aft their first-half performance.

“Brighton are a bully broadside and person bully players. But successful adversity successful the Premier League you’ve got to enactment strong, you’ve got to upwind the tempest a small bit.

“The champion teams enactment beardown successful that infinitesimal and upwind the tempest - we decidedly didn’t bash that.”

On wherefore Spurs could not respond to conceding that archetypal goal, and went alternatively conceded 3 successful the abstraction of 18 minutes, Maddison added: “We couldn't woody with the momentum shift. We mislaid power of the crippled erstwhile the archetypal extremity went in.

“We dealt with momentum poorly and couldn't get immoderate power of the crippled - erstwhile they were coming astatine america it felt similar onslaught aft attack. We couldn’t woody with it and they managed to people 3 goals.

“We person been connected a bully run, but it feels similar a mates of steps backmost today. We were saying each the close things to not get complacent, but words mean thing if you don't spell retired and amusement it."