De Zerbi, parachuted in to save Spurs from relegation last season, said: “For many reasons I think we are not (a) team yet. We are not at the right point in physical condition.<\/p>\n
“But no excuse. When you are building a new project I don\u2019t want time, but we have to pass through these problems.<\/p>\n
“I believe in my players, my club and myself. I think we are working well but we are late for the start of the Premier League.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a step we have to improve quickly. We could fight stronger than we did today and we lost too many duels.<\/p>\n
“The target is to become (a) team. To find the spirit, the soul, is a process.”<\/p>\n
Spurs, who gave debuts to five players, look set to top the \u20ac350million mark on new faces this summer once they complete deals for Savinho and Omar Marmoush.<\/p>\n
But it was Brentford\u2019s marquee signing, the comparably reasonably priced \u20ac48m midfielder Mamadou Sangare, who provided the early dividends as the catalyst for a superb Brentford win.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s pretty impressive on a lot of fronts. You never truly know from pre-season what you\u2019re going to get,” said manager Keith Andrews.<\/p>\n
“But it felt like we were in a good spot and we produced a pretty good performance.”<\/p>\n
Brentford beat a host of clubs to the services of Sangare, who set up two goals and looks like a ready-made Premier League star.<\/p>\n
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\nKeith Andrews celebrates Brentford’s second goal<\/p>\n
“More of the same from him, hopefully,” added Andrews. “It\u2019s been nice working with him and the club deserves a lot of credit for getting that deal done because he could have gone elsewhere<\/p>\n
“He adds to an already quality midfield that we have. I really enjoyed his performance today.<\/p>\n
“You never truly know in a different league, with a different language, but he\u2019s a humble young man who looks very hungry.”<\/p>\n
Last season Brentford only missed out on European qualification on goal difference, yet they still do not get the credit they deserve in some quarters.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s the beauty of this game,” smiled Andrews. “It\u2019s about journeys, it\u2019s about stories, it\u2019s about narrative. You\u2019ve just got to go with it, haven\u2019t you?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto De Zerbi felt Tottenham were undercooked and lacking fight after they slumped to a 3-0 defeat at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-601591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}