Ange Postecoglou is holding his press conference after Tottenham drew 1-1 with Fulham on Sunday afternoon in the Premier League.
Spurs had to add Dominic Solanke to their long list of unavailable players after the England international arrived at the stadium but was considered too unwell to take part by staff and was sent home by Ange Postecoglou. The striker added to an absentee list that included goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, Richarlison, Wilson Odobert, Mikey Moore, and the suspended Rodrigo Bentancur.
Postecoglou made four changes for the derby as James Maddison, Destiny Udogie, Timo Werner and Yves Bissouma all came in to the team with Dejan Kulusevski among those rested on the bench.
Both teams hit the woodwork in the first period and both keepers had to make saves but neither side could break the deadlock in the opening 45 minutes.
The goal finally arrived on 54 minutes when Timo Werner found Brennan Johnson with a great cross and the Wales international buried a powerful volley past Bernd Leno on the run. Fulham equalised though with a clinical finish by the unmarked Tom Cairney from just inside the box in the 67th minute.
Then a Cairney challenge on Kulusevski, high and down the back of the Swede's calf, was deemed worthy of a red card by the VAR assistant referee Craig Pawson and referee Darren Bond agreed after looking at his pitchside monitor.
However, the home side could not find a late winner with their extra man.
Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold is among those putting the questions to Postecoglou after the game. Scroll down for his latest updates from the press conference at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Here's a full Ange Postecoglou transcript
We've got a full transcript with every word Ange Postecoglou said which you can find by heading right here or scroll down for some highlights from the Tottenham head coach's press conference.
Postecoglou on Son's struggles in front of goal
You could say that about a number of our players. The key to it is is to stay focused and Sonny will. It’s not like he dwells on these things. That’s what the best goalscorers do they don’t dwell on it for too long and I don’t sense in him that he is worried about it because you know he has proven himself for year after year at this level. We have had different players go through those spells at different times. The key for it is to maintain focus and not dwell too much on what has happened before. I’m sure the goals will flow again for Sonny soon.
More from the Spurs boss
I've had already probably three questions on the Man City game and why can't we repeat that?
And like I said, I think if you can't see that even in seven days, we've copped a couple of significant blows since then I think, you know, it's too easy to say, well, let's just play like we did against Man City every game. And it somehow again, seems with this club that whatever it is that we do well is then used as a millstone to bring us down at every other opportunity.
And I guess from my perspective, as I keep saying, it's really important that we don't react to any of that and just stay focused, because I just sometimes feel like, especially the players we've got at the moment, they're just really working really hard for this football club to try and progress as to where we want to be.
We're in good shape, we're still in good shape, we're still in a decent position in the league. We're still in the Carabao Cup, we're in a decent position in Europe, so it's about us maintaining our focus on continuing to develop.
Postecoglou on team news
Postecoglou said Archie Gray came off with a dead leg. He hopes Dominic Solanke will be ok to face Bournemouth but isn't sure about Cristian Romero as he still hasn't trained with the squad and neither has Micky van de Ven.
The Spurs boss on Radu Dragusin and Ben Davies
These guys have been great throughout. I've seen so much violin playing over having one centre-back out and we've had two out, but Radu and Ben have been excellent.
Postecoglou on Fraser Forster
Yeah, he was good. We needed him in some big moments today. When you lose someone as important as Vic, you need someone experienced who isn't going to be overawed by stepping in. We see Fraser every day and we know his really strong work ethic.
More from the Spurs boss
We are playing tough opposition and it is not always going to go smoothly for you. I know people are going to keep using City as a reference point but against City I was able to put on Timo Werner and Brennan Johnson. We had Vicario in goal. I guess people are looking for easy targets but if people don’t understand what we are dealing with at the moment and how the players are coping with it, I think it’s fairly self evident. We are going to have to have days like today where things are not running smoothly. All you can ask is for the players to give everything and I think they did that and more today.
On losing Solanke just before the game
Doesn't help. That on top of Richy been out, Wilson being out, Mikey Moore being out. We're pretty short up top.
Postecoglou is here
Tough game, tight game, not a lot of openings for either side. Just a few opportunities to score. We started the game well and should have been 1-0 up and then they had their spell.
We tried to get some momentum late in the game when they went down to 10 men, but there wasn't a lot of football being played, so many stoppages.
