Liverpool's manager Kenny Dalglish paid tribute to Tottenham Hotspur after they embarrassed 使人尷尬，難堪 his team at White Hart Lane cruising to 順利拿下來 a 4-0 win this weekend.

Dalglish said: "Tottenham deserve a great deal of credit. All we can do is try to improve. For us, it's been a bad day."

"We know we have to go back to the drawing board 從新開始."

"We never passed 傳球 it as well or quickly as we have been. Tottenham started better than us. They took the lead through a wonder goal with Modric."

The Croatian midfielder Luka Modric opened the scoring for Tottenham seven minutes into the match with English striker Jermain Defoe netting 進球 after Charlie Adam and Martin Skrtel were sent off 被罰下場. Down to nine players, Liverpool were sitting ducks 坐以待斃.

But the man of the match 表現對精彩的球員 was the Togolese striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who scored twice on his home debut 首次參加主場比賽 to the satisfaction of Tottenham's manager Harry Redknapp.

"I thought we played some fantastic football", said Redknapp. "We absolutely dominated 控制主宰. If you can't enjoy the football we played here today then there's something wrong with you."

"The first 25 minutes was football at its best. We were by far the better team. We should have been two or three goals in front in the first 25 minutes."

Liverpool's trashing 慘敗 is their second defeat in a row. After spending a king's ransom 國王的贖身錢，高價 on midfielders, Kenny Dalglish will be under some pressure to deliver the club's first trophy since the FA Cup in 2006.