Conte calls for patience with Spurs 'far' from a trophy

Antonio Conte reiterated his calls for time and patience at Tottenham after admitting they were far off from winning a trophy following Sunday's home defeat to Liverpool.

The Italian celebrated a year in charge at Spurs last week and has made big progress during his 12 months, taking over a club in the Europa Conference League and guiding them in the knock-out stage of the Champions League.

Tottenham's style of play still draws detractors but they remain fourth in the table despite three losses from their last four Premier League fixtures.

Conte has repeatedly talked down their chances of competing for the title and called on fans to trust the process after they booed the team off at half-time of the 2-1 defeat to Liverpool.

"I can't promise in this moment to win trophies for our fans because in this moment we are far to do it," the 53-year-old admitted.

"Then if it happens in domestic league, then it would be a super plus because I repeat I continue to ask for time and patience, because I have the experience to tell that we are far from other teams that are used to winning and have squads strong to win.

"If we understand together this, it would be good. Otherwise, I repeat everybody wants to win, I am the first that wants to win but we need time and patience.

"If everybody knows we have time and patience, it is OK. Otherwise I think we continue this season and we will see at the end what happened."

Mohamed Salah's first-half double at Tottenham proved enough for Liverpool to earn a first away win in the Premier League this season.

Harry Kane reduced the deficit with 20 minutes left, firing home impressively from Dejan Kulusevski's pass.

It was the first involvement by the subbed-on Sweden international, who had missed 11 matches