Juande Ramos couldn't hide his anger following Tottenham Hotspur's latest defeat, a result that has prompted the manager to demand an immediate improvement from his players.

The Tottenham manager watched his team lose 2-1 to Aston Villa last night, leaving the club at the foot of the Premier League table with one point from four matches. However, the Spaniard says it's too early to write off their hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions League.

"I'm always angry at the end of games like this with the players and myself as well," Ramos said. "It's only just begun and there's still room for us there. We had very little time to prepare - (Vedran) Corluka, (Roman) Pavlyuchenko and (Fraizer) Campbell are new to the club and haven't really had time.

"I'm not going to carry out an assessment after one game. We are behind in our preparations. We need to keep the spirit going and climb as high up the table as possible. We've made an irregular start to the season having lost three games which makes it an uphill struggle for us."

"Hopefully with calmness and experience we'll get a positive result."

Ramos refused to single out Heurelho Gomes, who was at fault for Ashley Young's goal just after the break.

"The blame I give to the goalkeeper is the blame that is due to him, like the other players," Ramos said. "On other occasions he also stopped them scoring goals.

"I think he was absolutely magnificent apart from that goal."

Ramos insists he has faced bigger challenges in his career and feels he has the quality in his squad to kick-start their season.

"We've got a young squad with plenty of quality there and hopefully with calmness and experience we'll get a positive result and after that things could well change for us," he said.

"I'm not going to carry out an assessment after just one game. Don't forget this is the same squad that beat Roma 5-1.

"We've had good results against Celtic and Roma, I know that was in pre-season but they were great games and we have very good footballers."