“It will be a very interesting league this year”.
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“I don’t know what else is happening but that is not in my hands”. I feel fit and ready to go.
“We started the game slowly with a lack of energy and I am very disappointed with that”, Pochettino said. When you’re away on holiday, it’s all you think about, wishing it went better and what you could have done better, ‘ he told the Mirror. It’s football. There are highs and lows along your career and how you deal with that makes you the player you are. “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%”. It carried on the same line as the shot and I got my fingertips on it to push it over the crossbar. Overall we worked very hard.
“How you assess or measure the percentage of how your team is – for me it is very hard”.
The north Londoners will return to action next Saturday when the Lilywhites host Crystal Palace in their first home game of the season at White Hart Lane. “Next time we’ll fight and get the win”.
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.
Tottenham’s Erik Lamela celebrates his equaliser in the 1-1 draw at Everton.
The visitors continued to dominate and almost went ahead in the 80th minute, but Maarten Stekelenburg produced a sublime low save to deny Janssen from close range. “After the first goal, things went a little bit less than before and maybe we were a little bit exhausted but we will analyse it”. But the second half was totally different.
“At half-time I told them that we had made a lot of mistakes, and if you can not play in possession and create chances you will not get anywhere”.
Didn’t get forward as well as Walker and nearly gave away a goal on the stroke of half time when his bad back-pass sent Gerard Deulofeu in on goal, before Vorm saved his teammate with a good stop. Meanwhile, Everton have left plenty of their business late and, based on their 1-0 friendly defeat against Spanish side Espanyol, still look stale and with plenty of work to do.
“He was maybe found wanting when Spurs put pressure on towards the end but he finished the game as strongly as any other Everton player”. He wanted us to be compact and fight for every ball and in the second half we did that and showed a significant improvement.
Tottenham Hotspur defender Jan Vertonghen believes the team can be even better this season, but says the club’s aim is a top-four finish. One positive thing is they played their first big tournament, during the Euros.
“To move on the team, to achieve another level, it is here that we need to improve”. We have been through it together and learned from that experience together.
The 22-year-old made his appearance in the 56th minute to provide Tottenham with a spark.
The manager was less pleased with the stamina of numerous players he inherited, who last week he warned had only about 70% of the fitness level he is seeking for the season ahead.
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“We conceded the goal very early in the game and it was a big thing for us to manage that and hard to recover the game”.
