Rodrigo Bentacur has hailed the impact of Roberto De Zerbi at Tottenham Hotspur amid the club’s battle for survival this season..
The Europa League champions have endured another disappointing league campaign and are currently fighting to retain their too flight status ahead of next season.
Spurs have already parted ways with two different managers this season, before De Zerbi was brought in in late March to steady the ship.
Since the arrival of the Italian, Spurs have already moved to 17th on the standings and now have control of their own fate heading into the final three games of the season.
Speaking ahead of Monday’s clash against Leeds United, Bentacur has credited De Zerbi for the impact he has had on the team in his short time in charge.
“I think the energy (changed). When Roberto came in, he tried to change the energy, the mentality, to feel again these positive things”, Bentacur revealed.
“He works a lot on this and I think we change, the players change, we understand also the situation.
“And, you know, now after you’re back to winning games, the energy changed a lot and we feel really good.
“Yeah, the fans, here in the training centre and now after two wins we feel really good and we want to continue on this roll”, the Uruguayan midfielder added.
I think we change a lot now in the last week with Roberto. After four, five weeks, you can see also in the games, we change a lot, but I tell you this, Roberto tries to work in a positive way.
“In the mentality, the positive aspect. He said, ‘you guys play really good, now we need to start to play again’, so we work in this.
“He works really good in tactical aspect and then with the ball, he is amazing, you know and we try to do this.
What we work in the week, we try to do the same in the game and I think the last game against Villa, we show how we want to play”, the former Juventus midfielder concluded.
Tottenham face Leeds United on Monday night, hoping for a win to move further away from the drop zone and boost their survival chances.
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