Ange Postecoglou is holding his press conference after Tottenham Hotspur won 4-1 at Ipswich Town in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.
Spurs suffered a couple of early scares in the game at Portman Road, with Liam Delap sending a header against the left-hand post before the visitors took the lead before the 20-minute mark when Archie Gray put Son Heung-min away down the left and his low cross was stabbed home by Brennan Johnson.
It wasn't long before Johnson netted his 14th goal of the season. This time Rodrigo Bentancur sent Son away again down the left and the captain cut inside this time and found the unmarked Johnson to strike a low shot past the keeper.
Ipswich hit a goal back before the break. The visitors were slow to get rid of a ball and former Tottenham winger Jack Clarke picked out Omari Hutchinson to curl a shot inside the right-hand post.
The home side pushed for an equaliser but it was Tottenham who scored next with a bit of fast feet from Maddison before the substitute got the ball to Djed Spence who hit a deflected effort past Alex Palmer to make it 3-1.
A fourth goal followed after a great header on from Dane Scarlett into the path of Dejan Kulusevski who ran on, cut inside and curled an effort in off the left-hand post. Ipswich fans had wanted play stopped for a head injury as Scarlett's flick-on involved a clash of heads with Jacob Greaves.
Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold is among those putting the questions to Postecoglou after the match. Scroll down for his latest updates from the press conference at Portman Road.
Here's every word Postecoglou said
We've got every word Ange Postecoglou just said on what Kevin Danso loves, why Ben Davies was missing today, Archie Gray's ability to learn, unplayable Son, the 'ridiculous notion' of relegation, Spurs' big win at Ipswich and plenty more in a full transcript, which you can find by heading right here or scroll down for some highlights.
The Australian on steering clear of relegation worries
It goes to show you how ridiculous a notion it was to start with. People saying we're safe with 12 games to go, and people are actually talking about it. That's the hysteria. And that's all framed around putting pressure on me and the club. I get that, when you're in that position you've got to accept that. For me, it was always about trying... we always had the Villa FA Cup game as a marker for us. We've got to get to that space as best we could. We obviously didn't get the outcomes we wanted during that time. But not through a lack of will or effort from the players. That was always my primary concern, to protect them and support them. Because they gave everything during that period. Now they've got some help, they've got some rest. Like I said, we're not happy where we are in the league, obviously, it's unacceptable. But we've got an opportunity to address that.
Postecoglou on Kevin Danso
Ithink he enjoys the whacks. He's been great for us since he came in. He's really taken to the club ,taken to the group of players, taken on the challenge. It's not easy when you're coming into a new club, and we're asking him to come in and almost be a senior member. We still had three teenagers out there starting today, and a fourth coming on. It's still a really young team. I think Kevin's been a super addition for us.
The Spurs boss on Archie Gray
That's the beauty of Archie. We know he's playing out of position and Delap is a handful for anybody in this league. But I love that Arch takes on that challenge and never shirks it. He'll get so much growth out of this period.
Postecoglou is here
We had to work hard today, we knew we'd have to work hard. Ipswich are one of the hardest working teams in the league. At home, they're fighting for every point. I thought they started really well in the opening 10-15 minutes with the energy in the stadium, but I thought we did the hard things really well.
A couple of times in the first half we lost a bit of concentration, in terms of the second ball and duels. Disappointing goal we conceded but aside from that I thought we handled that side of the game really well, which we had to.
But I always felt we were a threat when we had the ball. Sonny was unplayable in the first half. So good to get Brennan back in those areas where he's always a threat. All four of our goals were quality goals. We had to do the hard things but the fruits of that labour was that our front third play was super, exciting and clinical.
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Welcome to Portman Road
A big win for Tottenham on the road to keep their momentum going.
