Tottenham still have their winning streak beating Liverpool 2-1. Postecoglou discusses that he has never been a fan of VAR and made his feelings known
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00:00 I was fairly eventful finish again and obviously pleased to come out on the positive side.
00:10 You hope things get better than this because you want substance but as a start goes and
00:34 that feeling at the end and dramatic nature of the game, I can't imagine you could have
00:35 imagined it would have been as good as this or could get much better than this at this
00:36 stage of your career?
00:37 I think I've been opposed to say that.
00:38 I don't have a schedule I'm marking it against.
00:39 I don't know what it is but fair to say we've had some significant challenges in the first
00:46 sort of seven weeks of the season and the way we've dealt with them I've been really
00:50 pleased for sure 100% including today.
00:54 Obviously you want to put the game to bed a little bit earlier than what we did but
00:57 sometimes when you score that late it just helps continue to build that belief within
01:02 the group and the spirit within the group that we have that in us to go to the last
01:07 minute.
01:08 So all these things are not by design it's just the nature of the game.
01:16 I'm not sitting here thinking we're ahead of some schedule.
01:24 I understand why other people probably had that in their mind because they're kind of
01:29 making prognostications on the information they have but for me it's just not of interest
01:34 to me because I just don't know how far we can go with the group.
01:37 We just got to keep pushing on.
01:39 Do you think we are still going in the right direction with all this technology and clearly
01:53 it's going to take the kind of reputation and reliability it's taken a big hit today
01:57 and PGM will have to deal with that?
02:04 You might have to dig up some research on me mate but I think on record saying that
02:09 I've never really been a fan of it since it's come in.
02:14 Not for any other reason that I just think really complicates areas of the game that
02:20 I thought were pretty clear in the past but I can see at the same time why it was inevitable
02:25 that technology would come in but I guess we have to deal with it.
02:31 But the biggest problem I think that we have or we seem to fail to grasp is that no form
02:39 of technology is going to make the game errorless.
02:42 We used to understand that errors were part of the game including officiating errors and
02:48 you'd have to cop it.
02:51 Some people copped it better than others but that was part of the game.
02:55 The game is littered with historical refereeing decisions that weren't right but we all accepted
03:02 it, that's part of the game because we're dealing with human beings but I think people
03:05 are under the misconception that the AI is going to be errorless.
03:08 Well I don't think there's any technology because so much of our game isn't factual,
03:14 it's down to interpretation and they're still human beings and they're going to make mistakes
03:19 the same way managers make mistakes, the same way players make mistakes.
03:23 So I think when you put such a high bar on something invariably it's going to fail so
03:30 if people are thinking that the AI is going to be something at some point that is perfect
03:35 that's never going to happen.
03:37 Did you think the two sendings off were justified?
03:41 Hard for me to comment on decisions on opposition teams.
03:48 I thought the first one, I mean Bicester's got a decent whack on his ankle so it didn't
03:51 look great.
03:52 I think it came from our pressure to be honest, I thought we were pretty relentless in the
03:55 second half and we didn't allow them to breathe.
04:00 We obviously had the man extra and there was a fair few fouls and I just think there was
04:05 an accumulation of those things but again they're decisions against another team.
04:10 I haven't commented on decisions against our team this year, there were a couple of times
04:15 I felt could have gone either way so I'll leave it for others to decide whether they
04:20 were right or wrong.
04:21 Do you have a winning goal in mind?
04:27 Yeah look I mean we want to be a team that has multiple avenues to score goals, we had
04:36 to create that because obviously with Harry going there was a fair chunk of goals leaving
04:42 the team automatically so we weren't going to replace that with one player.
04:47 We needed to make sure that the way we set up as a team gave us opportunities to score
04:51 from different areas.
04:52 Look I thought we started the game really well, so did Liverpool, it was a good game
04:58 at the start.
04:59 Then they went down to 10 men and I thought until we scored we were really good and then
05:04 we lost our way a little bit.
05:05 I just thought we kind of rushed things over, did things a bit too individually in that
05:10 sort of back end of the first half and that allowed them to get an equaliser.
05:13 The thing about Liverpool is even with 10 men they're still the same threat because
05:17 they prey on mistakes, they've got world class players in transition and we were a
05:22 bit naive I thought.
05:23 The second half I thought we were better, I thought we controlled the game a lot better,
05:26 played in the half, a bit more calm, probably didn't vary our attacks as much.
05:31 Having said that, I mean Alisson has just pulled off some unbelievable saves and we
05:35 just had to stay calm.
05:36 Sonneke, did he play too good a play?
05:40 He wasn't 100 per cent but I had a chat to him yesterday, he was desperate to play
05:43 and he was going to give what he could and he did.
05:46 He was never going to play the whole nine, he was always going to give him an hour or
05:50 so.
05:51 But he led from the front again, he was the one that was doing the pressing and instigating
05:58 the defensive pressure we put on Liverpool and got his goal as well.
06:02 So again, a great captain's effort.
06:06 Thank you very much.
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