“We were unlucky. I was happy with the performance and now we need to follow up”. You wish it went better and think about what you could have done better. Sometimes it’s hard because for that creative player, sometimes you’re a little bit more sloppy in that aspect of football. “But if I compare the numbers of the physical states of the players, it is 70% and at Southampton [Koeman’s former club] it was 100%”.
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On transfers, he said: “I have spoken that we may get one or two”.
“Sometimes it’s hard because that kind of creative player sometimes is a little bit more sloppy in that aspect but we will work on it”. In the first half we had a lack of energy.
Its all change at Everton this season as Ronald Koeman takes to the helm for his first full season at Goodison.
Everton had taken an early lead through Ross Barkley’s whose cross into the box from a free-kick beat everybody, including spurs keeper Hugo Lloris.
Vincent Janssen’s movement made a difference for Spurs when he came off the bench, and he would have netted the victor for his team had it not been for a great save from Maarten Stekelenburg, who denied the forward from six yards out and minutes later tipped Lamela’s cross over the bar.
“Obviously, we did not start very well, going behind early like that, and we were not at our normal tempo”, Kane said.
Everton were ahead after just 293 seconds of Koeman’s reign. But in the second half.
“The 33-year-old looked more than capable of taking over the gloves from Tim Howard and produced great saves from Vincent Janssen and Erik Lamela – the only reason Everton left Goodison with a point”, he added.
“The tempo was not quick enough, passing the ball”. We had good team organisation, we put a lot of energy in, and we were very unsafe up front.
Pochettino’s news conference before the match had seen him reveal he had wanted to “kill” his players over the final day of last season, when they lost 5-1 at Newcastle and dropped to a third-place finish in the table.
Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino opted to start with star striker Harry Kane up front on his own, with new signing Vincent Janssen coming on off the bench.
“We want to be better and improve”.
“There are a lot of clubs who have bought a lot of players and felt like they needed to strengthen their squad”. “He’s the number one in England; you have some very good other goalkeepers, like (Jack) Butland, like (Fraser) Forster, but he proved a lot during the past, with Manchester City or the England national team”.
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