Postecoglou on Spurs 2-1 defeat at Newcastle
01/09/2024
St James' Park, Newcastle, UK
01/09/2024
St James' Park, Newcastle, UK
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00:00Yeah, obviously.
00:29Very similar, I guess, to our first sort of away game where, you know, we controlled it for the most part, nullified most of the threats that Newcastle have.
00:40I mean, it's obviously a difficult opponent here at home.
00:46The crowd created a pretty strong atmosphere for the home side and things, little things go their way.
00:50But I thought for the most part we handled that really well and then gained the ascendancy in the game.
00:55And, you know, we just needed to kill it off and we didn't.
01:00And disappointing second goal, I thought we switched off a little bit, but the game should have been well over by then.
01:06So another sore one, unfortunately, where we haven't got the rewards for our play.
01:13But, you know, ultimately, it's three strong performances for the first three games.
01:21The results don't reflect in that way.
01:32Oh, yeah, potentially, but I still think even outside of that, we just had some really good opportunities, a little bit more composure.
01:39Fair play to Nick Pope, I thought he had an outstanding game.
01:44But I thought we could have tested him a few more times with just some better decision making.
01:47It's not just the opportunities we did create.
01:49I thought there was another probably six to ten moments where we could have created even more opportunities.
01:56So, yeah, and like I said, that's been sort of a constant theme for us that we're trying to sort of break through.
02:05Yeah, I thought it was good, Raddy.
02:06You know, it was a great opportunity to expose him.
02:10I mean, he's only 22.
02:11He's still a young man, especially for a defender.
02:15And I thought exposing him to this atmosphere and the threat, the particular threat that Newcastle plays with Isak up front, he had to be really concentrated.
02:26I thought he was.
02:27And I think he's going to play a big part in our season.
02:30And I think him coming through that, you know, sort of that whole experience will set him up well.
02:37Hiya, can I just ask about why you decided to take on Sarr at halftime and bring on Brennan Topper?
02:43I think it's, Pepe had been booked and like part of his game, he's just really sort of stopping the opposition.
02:48And on the flip side, Lloyd Kelly had been booked as well.
02:51So I just saw Brennan coming on and sort of running at them.
02:54I felt, I just felt we would sort of run over the top of them in the second half.
02:59I got that sense just before halftime.
03:01And I thought, you know, if we can get the ball to our white players, we can cause them some problems.
03:06And it did, it worked out that way.
03:09But like I said, we just didn't take advantage of it.
03:14There's a lot of shots from outside the box.
03:15Is that something you instructed your team to do before the game?
03:19No, when opposition's defence say do, it's pretty hard to get in there.
03:22They've got 10 bodies in there at times.
03:24Apart from Isak, everyone else is kind of in there.
03:27But, you know, we kind of worked our way into that area pretty well.
03:32But there was other times where we got even closer to goaling the box
03:34and obviously we just lacked a little bit of composure,
03:36which sometimes our positioning was off where we should have been.
03:40We weren't. And, you know, we let them off the hook.
03:44OK, thanks very much.