Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has hailed his participant’s drive and dedication after they dug in to beat Brentford 2-0 away from dwelling.
It broke a streak of 4 consecutive losses within the Premier League for the North London membership, and their first top-flight win in 49 days.
However it was not a simple day on the workplace, with Spurs having their backs to the wall for a lot of the recreation.
They took the lead by way of a Brentford personal purpose within the first half, earlier than securing the three factors with a couple of minutes to go due to a Pape Matar Sarr strike.
Talking after the sport, Postecoglou stated: “It’s a troublesome place to come back and win at.
“It’s additionally a troublesome place to win with the way in which they assault and arrange; you must defend your field. You’re simply going to have to try this.
“I assumed the lads dealt with that awfully properly and we knew it was going to be key for us and the lads have been good and we felt we had the standard of soccer to harm them the opposite method. Credit score to the boys, they have been good.”
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Postecoglou made certain to offer props to Djed Spence as properly – who was excellent and named Participant of the Match.
Taking part in out of place within the absence of Future Udogie at left-back, the younger Englishman has been a revelation in Tottenham’s defence.
Postecoglou added: “Since he got here into the crew he has been excellent.
“We missed him the final couple of video games however that’s the great thing about the place we’re at in the mean time. We’re slowly getting gamers again, enhancing us and serving to us and I believe that’s giving vitality to the group. He was nice at present, [Bryan] Mbuemo is a handful for any full-back and he dealt with him rather well.”
Archie Grey has been praised in the same vein and echoed the phrases of his supervisor.
With Micky van de Ven being rested forward the massive Carabao Cup tie in opposition to Liverpool on Thursday and Cristian Romero nonetheless not again, Grey was as soon as once more known as into motion on the again.
The 18-year-old stated after the match: “Clearly, it’s an enormous win. Off the again of one other good win earlier than. To interrupt that run, it was troublesome, we have been in a troublesome time. We’ve nonetheless obtained a great deal of video games to show that we will carry this successful kind on, so it’s essential.
“At instances this season, only for 5 minutes we’ve misplaced focus. As quickly as that purpose went in we knew we will’t make the identical errors. As soon as we obtained to half-time we thought we needed to hold disciplined for the second half. They play man-to-man, they left folks open on the again and we knew we may get a second purpose as properly.
“It’s a credit score to Ben [Davies] and Djed [Spence] and Pedro [Porro] as properly. To be honest Ben was shouting at me the entire recreation and we have been shouting at one another the entire recreation, in order that was actually good to have him subsequent to me. Like I stated, it was a very good clear sheet and hopefully we will hold it going.”