“That makes the team stronger and he will learn that, no problem”.
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‘We want to do better, we want to improve.
“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”.
Its all change at Everton this season as Ronald Koeman takes to the helm for his first full season at Goodison.
Tottenham, meanwhile, have the unenviable task of lifting themselves up from the heartbreaking end to last season, in which they not only lost out to Leicester in the title race, but a 5-1 defeat to 10-man Newcastle allowed Arsenal to pip them to second place.
And Koeman, who did bemoan his side’s wastefulness in front of goal in a first half that they controlled, believes that it was a fair result, with plenty of positives to take from the opening day of the Premier League, especially given how many late goals Everton conceded under Roberto Martinez’s tutelage last term.
“I am very happy with the way that we handled the game, how we managed it and how we finished it”, he said.
Everton’s Maarten Stekelenburg impressed on Saturday afternoon.
That added up to a bitter close-season for Tottenham supporters, but Pochettino has been focused on making things right this time and the Argentine coach is confident his players are ready to put the past behind them at Goodison Park.
‘He is still an Everton player but the board makes those kinds of decisions, ‘ Koeman said. We were a young team, so that’s good for us.
“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”.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: “Football is tactical, physical, technical, but it is also mental”.
He added: “I did not really have a chance on goal today which is always disappointing as a striker”.
“We know it would be hard towards the end because they have really good players, scoring players”.
Lukaku is expected to be available to face West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns next Saturday.
The players were told as such as soon as they returned from their pre-season tour of Australia.
Idrissa Gueye earned his first Premier League start since joining Everton, who were without injured Romelu Lukaku and Seamus Coleman, and he made an early impact by showing his strength and dispossessing Eriksen on the edge of the box. I thought we dominated the game and should have gone on to win it.
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With 10 minutes to go, Vincent Janssen nearly scrambled home his first goal for Tottenham after Everton failed to clear a corner, but Stekelenburg got down quickly to thwart his Netherlands counterpart.
