“That was not an issue today, he was not fit enough”, Koeman said.
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An early goal by Ross Barkley from a direct free kick wasn’t handled well by Hugo Lloris who was expecting someone to get a touch on the ball, either an Everton player or someone from Tottenham’s wall.
Deulofeu, who is 22 years of age, started the match and played for 68 minutes.
Senegal global Gueye was second only to N’Golo Kante in the French Ligue 1 stats two seasons ago before both moved to England, and Sky Sports football expert Quinn believes the player is a fine buy for Ronald Koeman.
So Deulofeu had to play there and he showed in pre-season he can play in that number nine position, and because of Tottenham’s high line and our good pressing there was a lot of space for him.
With $200 million spent on new players and Guardiola arriving from Bayern Munich to manage an already impressive lineup, City is the favourite to win the league this season.
And when asked if he had had strong words with the team at half-time in this game, Pochettino said: “Yes, but this is what happens with all the managers when we are not happy”. It was my responsibility too, and I tried to change things so we could create chances, score and win the game.
“We came very close to winning the game in the end because in the last 15 or 20 minutes we had control”.
‘We need to assess Hugo tomorrow. “He came on and brought good energy, and looked to get in behind Everton, it helped us”. “They had two big opportunities and Maarten Stekelenburg made two great saves, but at least what we showed what we like to see, and the mental resilience and the reaction of the crowd was fantastic”.
“His (Stekelenburg) saves were very important in that stage of the second half”. Being one or two goals up is a completely different situation.
“I thought Vincent was excellent”, Pochettino added. But I think overall we worked very hard.
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Ronald Koeman has challenged his Everton attackers to be more aggressive after they drew their Premier League opener against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.
