Tottenham star Dele Alli has his sights set on ultimate ambition of winning the Premier League after insisting Spurs can now beat anyone

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Dele Alli has warned Tottenham’s rivals that the club believe they can beat anyone now and consider themselves unlucky not to have won the Premier League in the past two seasons.

Spurs firmly stamped their mark on the footballing map with a crushing 3-1 victory against European champions Real Madrid in front of an 83,000 crowd at Wembley on Wednesday night. 

Manager Mauricio Pochettino acted as though he were completely at ease at simply any old result afterwards. 

Dele Alli has issued a warning to Tottenham's rivals after their defeat of Real Madrid

Yet he knows beating Zinedine Zidane’s successive Champions League winners will have reverberated throughout European football and that the effects will be felt strongest back in the Premier League, where the Argentine has been steadily growing the Tottenham’s reputation with a third place finish two seasons ago —when they ran surprise champions Leicester City close until the end — and improved on that by coming second last year.

‘We have been a bit unfortunate the last two seasons in the Premier League, coming second and third,’ Alli said, although the attacking midfielder was wary that his team-mates keep their feet on the ground following such an historic night against Real Madrid. 

'Its important we don’t get carried away with the way we played,’ he added, ‘we have to keep making sure we build together as a team, keep working together on the training field and make sure we are putting in performances at the weekend. Take each game as it comes and make sure we get as many points as we can.’ 

Pochettino, often compared to Sir Alex Ferguson, is the mastermind behind the club’s emergence as a leading force in the game. He is known as being firm but fair; you are either with him, or against him, and those who are on his side are made to feel as though they have nothing to fear in anyone.

Alli was a driving force in the game and has his sights fixed on a Premier League medal

The midfielder has admitted Spurs believe they can go up against the best and win

‘The way he talks to us in the meetings he gives us a lot of self-belief,’ Alli revealed. ‘Tactically we are very strong, we put a lot of trust in the manager and he puts a lot of trust into us, we feel like we can beat everyone.’ 

While many clubs disregard the importance of relying on English talent, Pochettino has achieved his success with a core of current and potential England players. 

Alli, Harry Kane, Harry Winks, Eric Dier and Kieran Trippier all excelled in the Real victory. All of them were called up to Gareth Southgate’s England squad for the upcoming friendlies against Germany and Brazil on Thursday, as was their team-mate Danny Rose, who has only not played at left-wingback this season due to injury.

Kane, who has captained England and is the national team’s leading striker, believes that it can only benefit Southgate and the country that this group are playing at the highest level and beating the world’s best. 

‘It’s great for England,’ Kane said, ‘it’s great for our national side, to be playing in those big games and performing in those big games. That’s what we need to do.

‘The most important thing for us is doing it in big games, high pressure games. It will be a good chance next week to play against tough opposition, see where we’re at, maybe try new things or see what the gaffer wants us to do. It matters more when the pressure is on, and [against Real Madrid] the pressure was on to qualify and we did that.’ 

Mauricio Pochettino heaped praise on Alli and the potential in his Tottenham team

Kane has a warning of his own for Alli, urging his young team-mate to keep calm so he does not pick up any more unnecessary suspensions. Alli was absent from Tottenham’s first three Champions League matches due to a horror challenge on Gent’s Brecht Dejaegere in the Europa League last season. He missed the last three games of the season before after punching West Brom’s Claudio Yacob in the stomach.

‘I think it hurt him he was banned for three games, as it would anyone,’ Kane said. 

‘Especially missing big games; Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid. So you can see he was raring to go, and what a performance from him, he was fantastic, two goals. 

'It was great to have him back in the Champions League. Hopefully he stays calm and we’ll have him for the rest of the campaign.’