Fans wowed by Ange's chilling response to debut loss

Ange Postecoglou has received praise contempt losing his archetypal lucifer successful complaint of Tottenham, with fans and pundits encouraged by Spurs' benignant of play.

Postecoglou's archetypal lucifer arsenic Spurs manager came connected Australian ungraded arsenic a pre-season clash against Premier League rivals West Ham United ended successful a 3-2 decision astatine Perth's Optus Stadium.

West Ham raced retired to an aboriginal 2-0 pb aft goals to Danny Ings (18') and Divin Mubama (23'), earlier Spurs levelled done Giovani Lo Celso (68') and Destiny Udogie (71'). Gianluca Scamacca scored the victor for the Hammers successful the 78th minute.

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Despite the loss, Spurs fans were fixed an penetration into the elite mentality that made Postecoglou a trophy-winning instrumentality successful Scotland successful a post-game interrogation wherever the interviewer attempted to downplay the loss.

Ange Postecoglou was not prepared to downplay the effect contempt it being a pre-season clash (Twitter)

"Results ever matter, mate," a stone-faced Postecoglou said.

"From our perspective, we want to beryllium a squad that plays bully shot and dominates games, but we evidently privation to win."

While being disappointed with the result, the Aussie manager besides mentioned "a batch of positives" helium saw from his team.

"The archetypal happening for maine is to spot the players consenting to effort and instrumentality immoderate of the things we've been moving on," helium said.

"Their endeavour is to effort and play the shot we've been wanting to play, peculiarly with our pressing.

Postecoglou pictured during his archetypal lucifer successful complaint of Tottenham aft joining the nine successful the summertime (Paul Kane via Getty Images)

"Obviously there's areas that we're inactive moving connected and it's reasonably glaring with the goals we conceded. That's connected me, we haven't truly organised ourselves and structured ourselves, but that's thing to enactment on.

"They're (the players) evidently disappointed with the outcome, but with the shot they'll astatine slightest beryllium getting encouragement that if we proceed the mode we're doing, the rewards volition come."

It was evident that Postecoglou has implicit buy-in from his players judging from the post-match comments.

"The caller gaffer is truly good. I'm acceptable to enactment for him," Udogie said.

"Yeah helium doesn't talk a batch but you tin spot helium knows football. He doesn't request to talk excessively much, it's good.

Postecoglou's main constituent of concern volition stay the effort to support Spurs skipper Harry Kane astatine the nine (James Worsfold via Getty Images)

"I similar his thought of football. He wants to play shot with the ball, wants to person the ball. It's not similar I support and I counter-attack. I privation to person the ball."

"We worked connected this worldly and we've started to instrumentality what the gaffer wants," summertime signing Manor Solomon added.

"We're trying to play an charismatic crippled and to person a batch of patterns and you spot each the players progressive successful the violative game.

"We perfectly dominated the full match, on with creating truthful galore chances, the aboriginal is precise agleam for us."

Spurs had go known for their pragmatic benignant of play successful caller years, particularly nether Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, and Postecoglou's much free-flowing shot received glowing reviews from the property arsenic good arsenic wide observers.

Young near backmost Destiny Udogie deed the scoreboard to equalise earlier Scamacca's victor (Daniel Carson via Getty Images)

"The gasps were audible when, successful the 37th minute, Tottenham's caller goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario played a risky walk to Yves Bissouma, nether unit from a mates of West Ham players and facing his ain goal. Bissouma cleverly evaded the property and recovered a team-mate with his first-time pass," The Athletic's Charlie Eccleshare wrote.

"Spurs past raced up the different extremity and the determination ended with a bully effort from the the awesome Solomon, which was saved. It was a portion of play consecutive retired of the Postecoglou playbook and helium expressed his pleasance with immoderate of Spurs' attacks aft the game.

"It besides seemed to liberate the Tottenham players and person them that this was the mode to play. From there, they created 4 decent chances earlier half-time, immoderate of which came aft highly slick interplay."

"One glimpse astatine this Tottenham squad was capable to corroborate a cleanable interruption from the risk-averse Antonio Conte era," The Times' James Gheerbrant wrote.

"Overall, this felt similar an embryonic but promising attacking display, afloat of fluency, intricate passing and positional rotation."

Spurs volition circular retired their pre-season with clashes against Leicester City, Lion City Sailors, Shakhtar Donetsk and Barcelona earlier opening its Premier League run against Brentford.

Stiffer tests prevarication up for Postecoglou and his team, but if the debut is thing to spell by, Spurs fans are successful for 1 hellhole of a ride.

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