Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will carry us into the top four, says Mauricio Pochettino

Four of the club’s remaining six games of the season are now at their new stadium

Mauricio Pochettino is fully confident that the move to the new stadium will see Tottenham Hotspur again finish in the Champions League places, after they opened the ground with a 2-0 win over Crystal Palace.

That result also represented a crucial first victory in six matches, that saw Spurs anchor their place in the top four. Four of the club’s remaining six games of the season are now at their new stadium – with the first few games having been played away because of the expectation they would already have moved in – and the belief that they have settled right in has only bolstered Pochettino’s assurance.

The feeling is they are now over their recent wobble.

“I am confident we are going to finish in the top four,” Pochettino said. “No doubt I believe in my players and trust in them. This group of players and staff and everyone in the club deserves to be in the Champions League next season. We worked so hard to try to deliver that moment and we are here now. It’s true, a lot of work to do, competing with big clubs who invest a lot of money, with different tools but we have the belief and we have our new home and our fans were amazing.”

Asked whether they could get maximum points from those four games at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after winning the first, Pochettino said: “We will try, that’s always the objective, to win. But this is sport, maybe you can lose.

“The idea was to move to the new stadium and be in Champions League in the second year and we are ahead because next week we play in the new stadium.”