James Maddison 'embarrassed' by Spurs season as he makes Europa League vow

James Maddison has revealed he felt “hurt” and “embarrassed” by - and the disastrous season. And the England midfielder now wants to “reward” the loyalty of the Spurs fans by winning the . “We’re in this together,” he claimed.

’s season hit another low at Anfield with a 5-1 defeat - their 19th in the Premier League - which saw seal the title. sit down in 16th and face a battle not to finish 17th above the bottom three. The North London club still have the chance to win a European trophy and return to the .

But Maddison said: “No-one in the whole club - from top to bottom - can be satisfied internally, to be satisfied with where we are. It definitely hurts. I had to do an interview at Liverpool on Sunday and we had lost 5-1.

"It is a little bit embarrassing, I am a bit embarrassed myself and you have to go and talk. And I know no-one actually wants to hear what I have got to say because they want to see the reaction. And get the reaction.

"And that is the chance we have on Thursday night which is the beauty of the quick turnaround because we can go and put it right on Thursday if we get a good result.

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“We definitely want to reward them for the support that they give us by creating something special because the League hasn’t been good enough, definitely. But it hurts us as well. It’s us players out there and we take responsibility for that.

"But it hurts me a lot that we’re having a poor season. But this is why we’re so motivated for this competition because the season can still be so special. People talk all the time about Tottenham being without silverware for however many years, but we’re in the last four and we’ve got a great opportunity in a competition we’ve been pretty solid in this year.

"We want to reward them because we feel the support. At the end games and you’ve lost again, you go over and you want to thank them for the support and I know they don’t want to hear it from us. Even this press conference and the interview on Sunday, they’re not really that bothered because words are just words. But it hurts and we’re trying to put it right.

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"That’s the main thing, that hunger is there. It doesn’t always work how you want it to, but this is a unique situation that we’re in in the last four in Europe when we can go and reward them for their support because they do travel everywhere. We are very grateful for that, even in the League position we’re in and we’ve got nothing to play for, they’re still selling out Liverpool away and we do appreciate that.

"They are supporting us. It hurts us as well. We’re not satisfied as well. We’re in this together. We have got to show them we are just as hungry as they are to win something.”

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