MAURICIO POCHETTINO accused his Spurs wobblers of lacking passion as their historic night went sour.
And he refused to blame playing at Wembley for the flop in front of an English club-record 85,011 crowd.
Pochettino said: ‘If this was basketball I would have taken them all off.”
Tottenham, 2-0 down before Toby Alderweireld gave them hope, have now lost their last FIVE matches at the national stadium.
Poch added: “We showed a lack of passion because we cannot concede these sort of goals.
“That is how we spoke in the changing room. It’s a shame because it was a good chance to give the fans a very good victory.
“Using Wembley is too good an excuse. Football is on the pitch, the grass.
“We cannot concede how we did and need to show more hunger, a different image.”
Spurs are using Wembley to speed up building of a new stadium adjacent to the site of their current White Hart Lane home.
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This was their first match back in the Champions League for five years and Pochettino’s squad were second best in every department to the French league leaders.
England midfielder Dele Alli admitted Pochettino was right to give the players a rocket.
Dele said: “We started poorly and they punished us for it. We did enough to win the game but we didn’t finish the chances.”
Monaco boss Leonardo Jardim said: “Maybe the larger pitch affected them negatively because they like to press and on a bigger pitch it is harder to close players down.”
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