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Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank was booed by his own fans after Thursday\u2019s drab scoreless draw at his former club Brentford, and while the coach understands the supporters\u2019 frustration, he believes that success will change their attitude.<\/strong><\/p>\n There were chants of \u2018boring, boring Tottenham\u2019 from the fans who also sang the names of former Spurs players, and when Frank went to applaud the travelling supporters at the end of the 0-0 gam, he was greeted with a chorus of boos.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not perfect, we want to be a free-flowing team,\u201d Frank told a press conference on Friday ahead of Sunday\u2019s game with Sunderland.<\/p>\n \u201cI think a couple of things I want to reinforce positively is the last two away performances. I think we were very good defensively.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re working very hard on the offensive part of our game and understand the frustrations. I share them too.\u201d<\/p>\n Frank\u2019s side are 12th in the standings after one win in their last four league games, and the manager gave his reasons for their disappointing form, including the absence of Dominic Solanke, James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski to injury.<\/p>\n \u201cYesterday we lost the ball with unforced errors 25 times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAll that can be adjusted. The next bit is the patterns and the structure, and getting in the right positions. The third thing, I think it\u2019s okay to mention that we still lack some very important offensive players.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to mention it again. I\u2019m getting a little bit bored, very bored, and sick and tired of naming them.\u201d<\/p>\n Frank, in his first season at the club, was asked if he could be successful at Spurs without the backing of the fans.<\/p>\n \u201cI will try to maybe turn that question around to say that if you are successful, the Tottenham fans will be behind you,\u201d Frank replied.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fans will get behind us and I am pretty sure that yes, I am booed last night but I am pretty sure there are a lot of fans behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n Spurs host a Sunderland side who have defied the odds after their promotion, currently in seventh place and who held Manchester City to a scoreless draw on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to do everything we can to put an attacking, intense, front-footed performance out against Sunderland in two days\u2019 time,\u201d Frank said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll do everything I can to make sure we do that. And if we do that and get three points, it\u2019s seven from three, which would be a very good output.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n