• 8 months ago
Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou reacts to a disappointing North London Derby 3-2 loss for Spurs against Arsenal

Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium, London, UK
Transcript
00:00 Disappointing.
00:02 Disappointing day for us.
00:04 It was a big game.
00:06 Big game for the club, for our fans.
00:08 We didn't get the outcome we wanted.
00:12 Obviously, it's very disappointing.
00:26 It's understanding where you are as a football team.
00:32 If I thought fixing defensive set-pieces was the answer to us bridging the gap,
00:38 then I'd put all my time and effort into that.
00:41 But that's not where we're at.
00:43 For us, it's about...
00:45 When I was focused on the details of not just set-pieces,
00:49 a lot of moments in games where we don't sense that
00:53 you give the good opposition the time and the space to do things,
00:59 then they're going to hurt you.
01:01 I think they maybe had four attempts on goal in the first half.
01:04 They scored three.
01:06 I don't think it's just about one part of it.
01:09 I think it's a bigger, broader picture than that.
01:12 But our defensive set-pieces for those first two were very poor.
01:18 But there's a lot more than that to fix.
01:23 Like I said, it's disappointing.
01:30 The outcome is disappointing.
01:32 We wanted to win today for our supporters, for the club,
01:35 but we didn't do that.
01:37 Whatever I think about the performance,
01:39 it's still the outcome that sits on you.
01:43 I think our general football was good, it was decent.
01:46 I think we controlled the game for the most part.
01:49 But we know we're a team that can do that.
01:52 It's about us now, not now, but over the course of time,
01:56 trying to get from where we are to where we want to get to.
01:59 And to do that, we're still not...
02:03 As we laser-focused on the details,
02:06 the small things that get you from where we are
02:09 to becoming a team that contends.
02:11 And credit to Arsenal, they're there now.
02:14 They're a team that does deal with the details well.
02:19 What are those kind of details?
02:21 Mate, they're thousands. I'm not going to sit here and...
02:23 It's just the little things that...
02:25 Like I said, you can't give time and space to good opposition.
02:28 You can't make decisions or lose focus on any given moment.
02:35 Even the transition goal, we were sort of focused on a decision
02:38 at the other end when we should have been thinking about
02:41 the danger that was at the other...potentially the other side.
02:44 One positive, what did you make of Cristiano Romeu?
02:49 Yeah, he was outstanding.
02:54 He's a World Cup winner.
02:57 And, you know, I've just got to get some of what's in him
03:01 into some of the others.
03:03 And can I ask you about that decision
03:06 before the foundation goal in their box?
03:08 You've seen it and what you made of it.
03:11 It doesn't matter if I saw it.
03:13 What matters is that, as I've said all along,
03:15 games are not refereed at the stadium anymore.
03:17 They're refereed somewhere else.
03:19 And no-one will convince me otherwise.
03:21 It's not even re-referee, it's refereed somewhere else.
03:23 It's why I don't celebrate goals anymore.
03:25 I've got to wait for somebody down the road.
03:27 So I just don't think referees in the stadium anymore
03:30 have that authority they used to to make decisions.
03:33 They just go, "You know what?
03:35 I'll just wait till see what the bloke down the road thinks."
03:39 It's a shame. I don't like it.
03:41 But it's here to stay.
03:43 And I've got to accept it like everyone else.
03:45 Thanks, guys. Thank you.
03:47 [clears throat]
03:50 [indistinct chatter]
03:52 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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