Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou on another thrilling home victory winning 4-1 against Aston Villa
03/11/2024
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03/11/2024
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00:00I guess just about all of it, you know, you're playing a top team and you know
00:12you know with Villa that they're always going to have a real strong performance
00:17because they're very very consistent they really have off days and you've
00:20got to be ready for that and you know I thought we had to match it with them in
00:27the first half we had to sort of draw on their energy and make them work really
00:32hard and you know obviously we concede a goal but I still felt like we we'd made
00:40them work really hard in that first half and you know the thing with us is we got
00:44another gear in us two or three gears and we keep going and you know we felt
00:49like we could really sort of break them open in the second half if we just
00:55really stayed focused on making sure the footballers was up-tempo and there's
01:01intensity in the game and you know credit to the players you know after a
01:06massive effort on Wednesday night that physically they you know they they did
01:10it again I guess it's it's my point from seven days ago is that you know you
01:23don't fall off cliffs and you don't climb mountains within a week you know
01:26it's it's all part of the same process for me you know we're gonna have bumps
01:32along the way it's how you address them how you cope with them how you rebound
01:37and learn from them that's the key thing and you know we had a disappointing day
01:42last Sunday but when you coming in on Monday we had two big games this week
01:48really important games so no points feeling sorry for ourselves you know we
01:53had to come in and get our head straight and and work back towards being the team
01:59we want to be and you know that's that's what happened but it doesn't mean that
02:02yeah that's the end of it now you know it's still we still got to push on we
02:07still got to get better we still got to improve and keep pushing on
02:16I was here is never gonna play more than that today Tom because obviously he had
02:22injury came back and last time we you know I was around the 60-minute mark
02:25where he kind of got fatigued last time so I was never gonna play more than sort
02:29of 55 60 respective of what the game was going the great thing was he made a
02:34pretty important contribution before that the great ball in for our first goal
02:39and got our equaliser so you know again we've got more battles ahead and we're
02:44gonna need him and you know he's never gonna play any more than that
02:54no no I didn't see any difference in in sunny I'd be surprised if any player
03:01likes coming off when they're feeling all right but no no I didn't need to
03:06discuss it with him and you know I said for us what's more important is the
03:10overall picture two shots on target no it had nothing to do with that as I said
03:22during the week you know I just think you know that the enormous effort he
03:27put in on Wednesday night to help us win a game of football like not just
03:31physically but mentally and his capacity to you know to just help the team in
03:37any way again he can to back that up today with you know such a massive
03:42effort again against a you know pretty difficult team to play against in that
03:46sense just unbelievable and you know the goals are great and then of course as a
03:53striker I'm sure that's you know he loves the fact that he can score a
03:56couple of goals and and but even if he didn't again I just can't speak highly
04:01enough of what he's contributing to our team at the moment and you know long may
04:06continue because you know with him playing that way just it just makes us a
04:12bit of time
04:15yeah no was obviously we made two or three changes but still you know we when
04:26you consider it was you know a big physical toll on Wednesday night and you
04:34know we were obviously a goal down at halftime it can easily play on your mind
04:37but I never sensed that at the break you know the players were really determined
04:41to go out there again they couldn't wait to get back out on the pitch and start
04:45playing again and you know raising the tempo raising the intensity and yeah
04:52credit to them like I said that's it's it's not easy you know we work hard
04:57obviously to get them to those levels but you still need the mental capacity
05:00to push yourself to those levels you know sometimes it's easy to leave that
05:04in reserve but they left nothing in the tank Wednesday night they left nothing
05:08in the tank tonight
05:10if you don't include last Sunday you saying okay yeah because that's a week
05:19really technically mad it doesn't it doesn't affect me really it doesn't you
05:24know I'm kind of I'm totally focused on the long game here of who we want to be
05:30and the little bumps along the road hurt but you kind of know that that's part of
05:37our growth and the good performances and and the good moments are there for
05:42our growth as well because you've got to deal with both I think in the same way
05:45with your eyes sort of firmly fixed ahead on from where you're heading
05:54yeah I know Richie obviously felt something sort of in the action of
05:58setting the goal up with his hamstring so we'll see and Romero yeah it was in
06:04that challenge again he felt his foot sore so again I don't have any sort of
06:10further information obviously he's a pretty tough cookie for him to come off
06:13it must be sore but yeah look it's not ideal but again you know it's another
06:18game where we've had to reshuffle our back line I mean Rado's played left back
06:22left centre back right centre back left centre back right centre back Ben Davies
06:26has had to come in at different times you know with Destiny Midwick and the
06:30boys are handling it really well like I said it's not ideal but hopefully you
06:35know both are not too serious
06:45you know I mean they're never out of my lineup I mean it's just different sort
06:49of you know challenges along the way but he's yeah he's I think he's probably
06:56played as much as anyone last year I rate him so highly and you know his
07:00capacity again to work for the team but also the quality he has in breaking open
07:03oppositions with his running with the ball he was gonna be I knew he'd be
07:07important today because they got such a hard-working midfield with Anana
07:11Tillerman's you got McGinn in there you know Rodgers I mean they don't really
07:16play with wide players so you know they work awfully hard in that midfield area
07:20and you've got to match that you know you never gonna break them
07:23open unless you do that and I thought he just put in another enormous effort
07:27along with Rodri and Biss when he came on and Decky of course yeah I'm really
07:34proud of the lads it was important day for us today because you know it's also
07:39the birthday of the late Hugo and he had a big influence on Matty
07:46Wells here at the club I know he played for Villa but he was obviously a coach
07:50at our football club and yeah Matty spoke really strongly about him and I
07:56think you know when you hear things like that and how people affect you know your
08:02life I think it helps give clarity to the players about what we're trying to
08:06do here and you know obviously for his wife and and his son obviously a probably
08:13a tough day but hopefully they get a little bit you know cheer from the fact
08:19that you know Wellesley you know really made it a real important sort of point
08:25that you know he may be gone but he's not forgotten.
08:36Yeah he just spoke about him yeah during the week yeah just yeah just spoke about
08:42him during the week and you know we mentioned him today because obviously it
08:45was you know would have been his birthday today and you know like I said
08:52I mean you don't dismiss those kind of things because you know he was he was
08:58with our football club when he sadly passed away so it's important that you
09:03know their memory lives on.
09:16Yeah potentially I don't spend too much time thinking about it but you know it
09:27looks like yeah it looks like there's there's a lot more sort of congestion in
09:37terms of the field itself some of that I think's just you know the attrition rate
09:44of players at the moment which is making it hard for teams to kind of get into
09:49sort of some smooth water so to speak but we're all having to deal with it I
09:55guess so that's part of it but yeah look I've got you know the table only is
10:03important for me at the end of the year you know while we're sort of running in
10:08the race you're not really looking I don't like looking either side of me I
10:13keep saying to the players if I was a racehorse and I'm not it'd be one with
10:20blinkers mate just looking at the finish line.
10:22Briefs to finish please.
10:24I think that's right I don't even know about horse racing I talk about stuff I don't know about anyway I'm sorry.
10:29When you face a team like Villa that's so potent on set pieces, so creative, do you spend extra time during the week preparing for that in a way that you wouldn't for most teams?
10:43No because I think then you fall into a trap of again preparing differently and I've always said that we prepare the same for every game
10:49is obviously we know that the strengths and kind of areas where they could hurt us
10:56yeah look we're considered from a set piece but you know I know I'm on my own in this, I don't like them.
11:03To me I think I mentioned in the TV interview you know it looks like a scrum
11:08I just don't think that's what football is about but it's part of football these
11:11days where you can just drop a ball in the box and people can fight over it so
11:15disappointing for us to concede from that but general I thought we handled
11:18their set pieces really well they are very good at set pieces and I thought we
11:21handled it really well and it was great for us again to score another one from
11:24an attacking set piece you know we're scoring goals from different areas so
11:27that's important.