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Emmanuel Adebayor: Booing means Spurs finding home games tough

Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor has said the club's players are finding home games difficult as the crowd register their discontent with the performances served up by Mauricio Pochettino's side this season.

The north Londoners suffered another White Hart Lane setback on Sunday as visitors Stoke won 2-1, with the defeat coming soon after Newcastle had triumphed there by the same scoreline.

Tottenham are in 12th place in the Premier League title, with boss Pochettino saying they need to improve their mentality.

And The Guardian reported Adebayor as saying: "It's kind of hard when you know the first bad ball you make the fans are going to boo you.

"When you are playing in front of your own crowd you want them to support you -- but now it is like going through a sad moment and your family not welcoming you home.

"That's the worst thing ever because you have nowhere to go. At the moment I don't know whether we should play at home or whether we should play away.

"Obviously I was on the bench against Stoke and, although I could not see everything, I could see that nobody wanted the ball.

"It's hard for the players. It's not their fault and it's not the fans' fault either, because the fans want to see a result, the fans want to see a response, and things are not going our way at the moment.

"We just have to fight as a team and as a club to find a solution -- and the quicker the better."

Adebayor urged the Tottenham supporters to back their players and "give them what they need to perform on the pitch."

He said Pochettino was "a good manager" and added that the players "just have to get what he is telling us."

"We have to get used to him," he explained. "He is the new manager and it is tough.

"Tactically, he is working hard, he is trying to make us understand what the opponents will try to do and what we have to do to score goals and win the games. But at the moment there is a blockage somewhere."