Ange Postecolgou, a former Celtic manager, calls the Spurs EPL debut a “good starting point.”

 

Following his departure from Glasgow, the

former Celtic manager made his English

Premier League debut yesterday afternoon

with his new team splitting the points in a

four goal thriller.

Ange Postecoglou observes as Tottenham

open their EPL season with a draw against

Brentford as life after Celtic begins.

 

Ange Postecoglou has described Tottenham’s

away day point at Brentford as a ‘good

starting point’

The former Celtic boss made his English

Premier League bow yesterday afternoon

following his switch from Glasgow. During

his two years in Scotland he tasted multiple

trophy success winning five out of the six on

offer including signing off with a Treble. His

new role has already thrown up its

challenges with star man and captain Harry

Kane sold to Bayern Munich with his

contract in the final year and no desire to extend that further.

But on the park the ex-Hoops gaffer was

pleased with the overall effort from his

players and hailed them for giving

everything they had. Next up is a first game

at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for Ange

against Manchester United. With no

European football this season, the North

London outfit will be going all out in the

domestic competitions to taste success this term.

 

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Speaking to SPURSPLAY from Gtech after the

2-2 opening day draw, Ange said: “I thought

overall, pleased with the effort of the

players, they gave everything, a good

starting point for us. There was a fair bit

going on in the first half and it would have

been easy for the lads to lose their

composure, drop their heads, but I thought

they handled themselves really well.

“We controlled the game well in the second

half, but we just lacked a bit of a threat in

the final third, a little bit of creativity, but

considering everything that happened,

overall, I thought it was a good performance.

“I just felt we played a little conservatively

in the final third. It’s understandable when

there are four guys making their debuts for

the club, we’ve changed the way we play, the

players are taking in a lot of information at

the moment, it’s only natural that they’re

not as free in that front third as we need

them to be, but that will come.

 

“It’s the first game of the season, whatever

we did today we know we’ll improve – we’ll

have to improve from here – but it’s a good

starting point.

“It’s a difficult place to come, particularly

after conceding a penalty and an own goal,

it would have been easy for us to feel sorry

for ourselves, but I never sensed that from

the players, they got to grips with the game

again and in the end we had to settle for a

draw, but I thought we looked like the team

who were trying to win it.”