Ben Davies says he and his Tottenham team-mates need to ‘stand up to the pressure’ that is mounting on them.
Spurs have lost five of their last six league games and slid down the table to ninth, nine points off the top four.
The Europa League will provide some brief respite and Spurs host Wolfsberger on Wednesday night in the second leg of their last-32 tie, 4-1 up from the first game.
But Spurs’s Premier League plight remains in their minds and left-back Davies said: ‘It's obviously not how we wanted it to go at this stage of the season.