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Tottenham manager Thomas Frank, speaking to TNT Sports: “Very happy that we won the game, for various reasons.<\/p>\n
“The main being that I thought we had a very good performance, especially first half. I really liked how we started the game. Front foot, aggressive, forward, positive so that was very good.<\/p>\n
“We scored two good goals, lots of positives from that, and a clean sheet as well. Of course, I would have liked to have kept the ball a bit better in the second half but we haven’t won as much as we’ve wanted to, especially at home, so it was important to get that over the line.<\/p>\n
“You often see that, 11 against 10 that can happen. I think first half, you felt it could be a special European night, the fans were absolutely great and really behind the team so happy with that.”<\/p>\n
On the fans: “They were really behind the team. It was a fantastic thing to hear that atmosphere and energy and how that transmitted to the players. That was special.”<\/p>\n
On Burnley next: “We need to bring this win, this performance, momentum into Burnley and we need to win.”<\/p>\n
On top-eight finish: “Of course, it would be amazing to do that. First Burnley, then we can focus on Frankfurt afterwards.”<\/p>\n
On Dominic Solanke’s goal: “I think it’s fair to say the margins haven’t always been completely with us and you need that sometimes.<\/p>\n
“The performance backed up with two things, the second goal but also the red card. It’s a red card but you don’t just get that, those have gone against us so good performances but also the margins you always need.”<\/p>\n
On Xavi Simons’ performance: “First and foremost, there were many good bits and I liked his mentality to push through with an injury and play with pain.<\/p>\n
“He played with determined and focus and I think he had some decisive actions.”<\/p>\n
On building on this win: “I think this is the eighth game in a row where we’ve done lots right, now we’ve got a win as well. That means we look forward to another result on Saturday.”<\/p>\n
On Lucas Bergvall injury: “They are assessing him now so we will know more on Thursday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Important to get it over the line’published at 22:35 GMT 20 January 22:35 GMT 20 January FT: Tottenham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-420347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}