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Hugo Lloris: Tottenham's confidence affected by poor Wembley form

LONDON -- Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris says the squad's confidence has been knocked by two more bad results at Wembley, and adds the players do not yet feel the same dominance at the stadium as at White Hart Lane.

For the seventh time in eight attempts, Tottenham failed to win at Wembley under Mauricio Pochettino on Sunday, conceding a stoppage-time equaliser in the 1-1 draw with Burnley.

The result followed a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea at their temporary home, meaning Spurs have now dropped five points in two Premier League matches at Wembley -- one more than they dropped in the whole of last season at White Hart Lane.

After the Burnley game, Pochettino again deflected attention away from the venue, saying Wembley had "nothing to do" with the club's last two results.

But Lloris feels it is a factor, saying: "Wembley is a different place, it demands more effort in your mind, in your body, and we need to try to find the right feeling, find the right confidence. Step-by-step it will arrive but we need to make sure that kind of scenario will not happen again.

"I think it could've happened in White Hart Lane. From the beginning, if you don't win your two home games, you start to lose a bit of confidence, and the same you can feel it in the crowd, you can feel the opponent building confidence, and it's not easy, especially after a season like last one -- we were unbeaten, we could've played eyes closed, we were fantastic. But the most important is to keep our belief, keep working hard, and it will happen."

Chelsea's 87th-minute winner came as Spurs pushed for a second goal of their own shortly after scoring the equaliser, while Burnley caught the hosts on the break while they looked for a killer second goal.

Left-back Ben Davies has accused Spurs of not being street-smart, and said they need to learn to keep the ball and run down the clock in the final minutes of matches.

Lloris agrees that Tottenham's game management was poor but said he would like to see them "kill" games with a second goal.

"We need to do better, we need the kill the game. A game like Burnley you need to kill it," he said. "We had a few good chances to score but we didn't do it, their keeper made some good saves.

"We should have managed better this chance for the Burnley goal. It's a cruel scenario but it's football. If you don't kill the game, 1-0 is not enough. To make sure we get the three points, we need to kill the game -- 1-0 is not enough -- or you need to be very strong until the end of the game and that was not the case.

"I do think we should have managed the end of the game better, but we cannot replay the game. It's finished now and we need to think about that and improve individually, improve collectively, and make sure that kind of scenario will not happen again."