Ange Postecoglou challenged Tottenham’s gamers to keep up the requirements set in Saturday’s beautiful win at Manchester Metropolis having doubled down on their soccer ideas in model.
Spurs went into the worldwide break on the again of a chastening 2-1 dwelling loss to promoted Ipswich however returned from it with a jaw-dropping 4-0 victory on the Etihad Stadium.
James Maddison’s first-half brace sparked wild Spurs celebrations in opposition to Metropolis, whose fifth straight loss in all competitions seemed all however sure after Pedro Porro scored shortly after half-time.
Substitute Brennan Johnson added gloss as Metropolis’s unbeaten dwelling document in all competitions that had stretched again to November 2022 got here to a exceptional finish.
“You don’t come to a spot like this considering that it’s going to be most likely as convincing because it was for us when it comes to the way in which we dealt with (issues),” Tottenham boss Postecoglou stated.
“Look, I’ve stated earlier than, Metropolis check you in each soccer method potential. You’ve bought to do a little bit of every part – you’ve bought to defend, you’ve set to work exhausting, you’ve bought to be disciplined, you then’ve bought to play soccer.
“I assumed all 4 areas we bought to a extremely robust degree in the present day, the place the gamers have been simply actually decided to ensure that after clearly a disappointing recreation final recreation we simply bought again to our core beliefs as a crew.
“Credit score to the lads. I assumed they have been excellent in the present day as a result of we knew first 10 minutes they’d come out firing.
“Clearly, the 4 losses they’d had have been away from dwelling, so being at dwelling there’d be an vitality within the stadium.
“We have been going to must form of climate the storm, which I assumed we did pretty nicely, after which we simply grew into the sport.
“Simply so happy for the gamers within the perception they’ve in making an attempt to play the way in which we need to, and you then get a reward like that. I believe it simply hopefully furthers our development.”
Postecoglou was happy by the way in which Spurs’ gamers put his recreation plan into apply and burdened the significance of now constructing on the efficiency.
“I stated in the course of the week I actually suppose we’ve progressed as a crew,” the Australian stated.
“I believe we’re a greater crew this 12 months we have been final 12 months however we’ve had some actual flat spots, to say the least, that haven’t allowed us to progress when it comes to our standing.
“However as I stated, I’ve by no means sensed the gamers have misplaced perception in what we’re doing. It’s very straightforward to as a result of clearly there’s loads of noise when issues don’t go nicely.
“Right this moment was about form of doubling down on our soccer ideas and we did that, and it’s important as a result of clearly they’ve bought an unbelievable document right here at dwelling.
“So I don’t suppose it’s one thing you can be blase about. It’s important.
“However I believe it’s important for the entire group that we’ve reached these requirements earlier than, it’s about not dropping as we have now in sure video games.”
