Roberto De Zerbi told us Tosin Adarabioyo \u2018deserves to play\u2019 after his first start for us in the Premier League in Monday night\u2019s 3-1 win against Coventry City.<\/p>\n
The central defender produced a typically calm, assured display alongside Micky van de Ven as goals from James Maddison, Omar Marmoush and Ben Davies saw us home.<\/p>\n
It was special night in N17 as Madders responded to his first start since 1 May, 2025 with a superb strike for the opener and then Dejan Kulusevski stepped off the bench for his first action since 11 May, 2025.<\/p>\n
Spurs 3-1 Coventry City | Key Highlights | 2026\/27<\/p>\n
Speaking to us afterwards, Roberto reflected: \u201cI think the players, they don’t believe in themselves like I believe in them. I consider, honestly, and I don’t want to say nothing more, that we have a great squad, great players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m happy for Tosin, because he deserves to play. He’s great as a personality, as a behaviour, as a spirit. It’s important, crucial in the dressing room. Then, at Old Trafford, Marcos Senesi played very well. We just need to believe more in ourselves and to keep working with this mentality seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tosin joins the celebrations after James Maddison’s goal against Coventry<\/p>\n
As for Deki\u2019s return, Roberto added: \u201cYes, he’s a different player. He’s a great guy, but he’s an example for every one of us. I put him on the pitch, especially in the last part of the game, because I knew the fans wanted him on the pitch. I think we needed in this moment the big support from the fans.<\/p>\n
“They are fantastic with Kulusevski, with us, they suffered too much in the last two, three, four seasons, I don’t know, but they deserve to celebrate many, many wins.”<\/p>\n
“We didn\u2019t accept the draw” – De Zerbi on important victory against Coventry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto De Zerbi told us Tosin Adarabioyo \u2018deserves to play\u2019 after his first start for us in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808714","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=808714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}