Angry Ange Postecoglou reaction to Totteham vs West Ham Match Every word an angry Ange Postecoglou said about Tottenham defeat to West Ham and Son limping off
Here’s every single word the Tottenham Hotspur boss said after the 2-1 defeat to West Ham United in the Premier League on Thursday
Tottenham Hotspur boss Ange Postecoglou during his side’s game against West Ham United
It seemed like the first half was good, but the second half was poor?
No I don’t think so. I think it’s another game where we’ve dominated a game of football and haven’t turned our dominance into something more tangible and kept the opposition in the game. I thought we were really poor in both boxes tonight – both with our finishing and both goals were terrible to concede.
We had some unbelievable chances – for us it’s another game, like the Villa game and other games earlier this year, and I said during the week our attacking play has a long way to go. In general we have a long way to go, and tonight was more evidence of that.
Is it frustrating after being so good in the first half?
Us being good means us being 3-0 up. This isn’t about us playing good football, it’s about us winning games of football. That’s what I’ve said from the start. I set teams up to win games and 1-0 at half-time was not a good performance from us. A good performance would have been 3-0 or 4-0 up, as was the case against Villa. And when you don’t, and give up goals you shouldn’t like today then you get what you deserve.
Why does the team keep giving leads away? Is it fatigue with all the players out?
Like I said it’s just not having that conviction in front of goal to finish teams off. As simple as that. If we weren’t creating chances, if we were out on feet then those kinds of things you could factor into it. But I don’t see that. Because all our chances, especially in the first half, have nothing to do with fatigue. It’s to do with lacking conviction, at the moment we’re just going through this spell where we’re playing so-called good football but I don’t see that.
All I see is us not really showing any real clear conviction in what we’re doing. It’s almost like we’re thinking the ball will go into the net by itself but it won’t. You need to have that determination to do that and you need to have that determination to keep the ball out of your net at the other end.
Is Son ok, he looked to be limping when he came off?
I don’t know. I’m not sure.
The players looked annoyed with the referee at the end, what was that about?
I don’t know. I don’t think it was because of the ref that we lost today.
How can you turnaround this little spell?
There’s no alternative. That’s the game we’re in. There’s no point in feeling sorry for ourselves, looking for a cuddle anywhere. There’s only one way to change our circumstances and that is to come here on Sunday and put in a performance, not just play good football but go out there and show some conviction about ourselves as a team.
