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January 9, 2025, 01:30 | Tottenham Hotspur
Ange Postecoglou spoke to the media at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after our 1-0 win against Liverpool in the first leg of our Carabao Cup semi-final on Wednesday evening.
Here’s what he had to say…
“Yes, very proud. Again, we had to deal with some adversity tonight. We started the game really well I thought, then we lose Rodrigo (Bentancur, to injury), and in the way it happened, it was quite distressing to see a team-mate go down in that manner. Again, we had to compose ourselves and deal with that and re-organise. I’m super proud of the players, I have been all along. It hasn’t been through the want of trying that our results haven’t been as good, it’s certainly not been on them, it’s just that we haven’t been able to get the consistency to get the results that we need. I’m just proud that they feel good tonight, that they get the rewards for their hard work. Our fans as well, we’ve put them through a tough time, I thought they were outstanding tonight. We haven’t achieved anything, but I think that feeling of having a victory against a top opponent in a big game… I’m really pleased for everyone.”
“Lucas was brilliant. Like I said, I didn’t lose sight of the fact that we have two 18-year-old rondos, the one who plays in the back half (Archie Gray), it’s not even his position position that we can grow.
“I do not need to speculate because I do not know either. All I know is that he conscious when he got here out. Obviously, it a type of injury to the head, yet he conscious when he got here out of the field. And he taken to the hospital for observation.
“Bright. Fantastic. It made sense when I talked to him before signing that he had a little of him in terms of insured who denied his years. I gave him a gigantic task to play opposite to the most productive team in the global at the time, in a Great game, a semifinal.
“I spoke about it after the adjustment for the last time, I think my comments were misinterpreted. Moment, it is very confusing, to perceive safe elements of the game. Games, we never used to debate handball, we were never used to debating in the box, we were never used to debating so many things. I’ll be the old man in the stands who keeps screaming every time and I’ll be one, however, just with the idea that other people would be a little more protective of the sanctity of the game. . I didn’t criticise the referees, I wasn’t. This is my conviction that the game tweaks on the basis of technology, and I say why no one talks about it. Especially in this country that, for all useful purposes, you think you think you’re game guards, you have a song that says, “House is coming,” it’s your game, and yet it takes an Australian on the other side of the global to be the ultimate conservative about the settings. “
“Well, it’s been an emotional moment, and it’s like I’m like, I’m a human being, you know, like everybody, we’re in those managerial roles and we’re meant to, you know, I perceive We have positions of responsibility, yet we’re still human beings at heart, and we react to things. We didn’t have that feeling of victory.
“And in a position in which he has never played, a year of 18. You know, in two or 3 years, I just pray for God to be the beneficiary of his talent, because if he understands it, I will not be satisfied.
“When other people said my midboxer a little more conservative today, it’s because I only had 3 boxes in the box to choose from. You allow yourself to dominate the game like the other teams, and our players every 3 days play a game of football, without resting, and you saw Liverpool at the end, they have put in vital talents, very intelligent footballers, more sensible footballers.