Against Arsenal, Tottenham showed their progress both in and out of possession.<\/p>\n
They were winning duels in midfield, Cathinka Tandberg was holding up the ball in attack and summer signing Toko Koga was once again a rock in defence.<\/p>\n
They showed bravery when they won the ball back, not afraid to take on Arsenal’s Champions League winners and were savvy in seeing the game out later on.<\/p>\n
Their rivals are in a slump – they have not won any of their past three games in all competitions – but Spurs were still underdogs and played as if they weren’t.<\/p>\n
“Any game we go into now we’ve got to go and be competitive. I don’t want us to be a team that sits off the top three teams,” stressed Ho. <\/p>\n
“I’m enjoying it for now. At times you have to give yourself a reality check and see just how far you’ve come. But you’ve got to stay on the tracks.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of expectation on Spurs because we know last year we were not where we wanted to be.”<\/p>\n
The disappointment of last season, where Spurs finished second-bottom with 20 points, is still fresh in people’s minds.<\/p>\n
They already have 16 points this campaign after just nine matches and sit a point off Manchester United in the Champions League qualification spots – but Tottenham are cautious of getting carried away. <\/p>\n
Recruitment in January will be important, Ho admits, as they look to add squad depth and continue progressing.<\/p>\n
They hope by picking up more results like this one against Arsenal, they can also grow the fanbase and attract more followers.<\/p>\n
“We want to add different profiles and add to parts where we’re missing at the moment,” said Ho. <\/p>\n
“If we want to be a top team and compete in all the competitions we’ve got to add squad depth.<\/p>\n
“If we want more fans to come and watch our games then we have to put in more performances like this. <\/p>\n
“The fans aren’t asking for perfection, they’re just asking for an energy, a work rate a desire, – when you do that you’ll bring more fans to the ground more often.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Against Arsenal, Tottenham showed their progress both in and out of possession. They were winning duels in midfield,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-266599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}