Ange Postecoglou and Brennan Johnson are both speaking to the media on Wednesday afternoon at their Europa League press conference ahead of Tottenham's quarter-final first leg against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Spurs are looking to end a difficult season with a rare piece of silverware and getting past a tricky opponent in Frankfurt over the two upcoming legs in north London and then Germany will be the first stage of doing that. Postecoglou will be speaking about the home leg and the players available to him plus any fresh injury news.
Johnson is also set to answer questions from journalists after scoring twice in the win against Southampton to make it 16 goals this season and 20 goal involvements.
The Wales international could have had a hat-trick if he had been allowed to take the penalty that he earned late in the game, only for teenager Mathys Tel to be handed the ball by vice-captain Cristian Romero to score his first Premier League goal. Both Postecoglou and Johnson are expected to be asked about the moment with the older player clearly wanting the opportunity to complete his treble with the team's usual penalty takers all off the pitch.
Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold is among those putting the questions to Postecoglou and Johnson. Scroll down for his latest updates from the press conference at Hotspur Way.
Here's everything Brennan Johnson said
We've got every single word the Tottenham attacker said in a full transcript which you can find by going right here.
Here's every word Ange Postecoglou said
We've got a full transcript with every single word the Tottenham boss said which you can find by heading right here.
Johnson on not wanting to put off Tel
All of us attacking players, if there’s a chance to score from 12 yards without it being contested, all of us would want to take it. Once the decision had been made it’s not really my nature to argue or have a fight about who takes a penalty. I’ve been in that situation before, where people are really reluctant to let someone else have a penalty and it can put you off. So once the ball was with Mathys I just wanted to get on the edge of the box and support him. He put it away and he’s a quality player as well so it’s not like I’m doubting his quality. As soon as the ball was put in his hands I backed him to score.
More from the Wales international
I agree [with Postecoglou's thoughts on people making too much from the penalty moment]. I think we’re going to go into competitions that if it goes down to penalties or if there’s a penalty to be taken, there’s so much on the line so it’s about who is feeling the most confident, who is performing the best, who is performing the best and whoever is on penalties will take the penalty so I agree. In this tournament, it’s not about giving people free goals, it’s about scoring goals and if we get an opportunity to increase our lead, or get a goal back we have to make sure we score the goal so I agree with what he said about it.
Brennan Johnson is here
[My goal tally] is something that I am definitely proud of. It was a target for me at the start of the season to score more goals than I did last season. There’s a lot of work that goes into it, positionally, the types of finishes that I want to improve at. Sixteen goals is something I’m very happy with.
The Spurs boss on the speculation around him
Again, you know the only reason I mention John’s article, is because I think that is the general sentiment. I have said before, that is not what drives me. I came to this club with a clear purpose and vision of what the club needed and what I could offer. That is to change the way the team plays, to obviously rejuvenate the squad because it was a squad that was coming towards the end of a cycle and to bring success.
As long as I’m in this position, that’s always my focus irrespective of whatever noise there is or what there may or not been in the future. I don’t see that, that should diminish my burning ambition, my desire and my determination to make that happen. Anything you achieve in life usually comes with a struggle. Certainly everything I have achieved in my life has come with a struggle from a professional perspective. This is just another struggle, but never through this struggle have I lost the will to fight for what I think is the right thing to do and I’ll continue to do that.
More from Postecoglou
I just thing we're in that position that the good stuff we may do is going to be turned into a glass half full rhetoric and from that perspective I don't think that can be a driver in what we want to do. The lads are really keen to bring success to the club, keep driving the principles of what we started this whole journey with, in terms of the football we want to play, really stick together as they have through the toughest of periods and hopefully we've worked our way into a position where we can make an impact on our season, a really disappointing season for us. I just think there's a real determination to take the opportunity that they've earned at this point.
I don't think you're going to win that argument of convincing people, well I think John wrote that even if we win it, I'm gone anyway. That's not having a go at you, that's just saying the general sentiment of people. So if you're trying to use that as a motivation, you're not going to win that anyway. There's got to be more in it for us and for us what is the most important thing as a group is that we've been through a really tough time but we're still in a position where we can make an impact and you don't know how often you get those opportunities.
We're in a quarter-final and I don't know how many times the club has been in a quarter-final in European competition. You don't want to let that slip you by or have the wrong mindset going into it. I think the players are handling it well in terms of how they're trying to embrace this challenge. They're going to face a top team but they have the capabilities to overcome that.
The Spurs boss on the penalty incident
We scored, we won. Delighted. It's incredible, it's just... literally turning gold into crap when it's Tottenham. Seriously. If we're 2-1 up tomorrow night and get a penalty in the last minute, I want the best penalty taker to take it. I mean the one slight against this club is apparently it hasn't been a winner. Well the winner's mentality in the last minute of the game is to score a goal. We scored a goal. And yet somehow in this ultimate universe where everything Tottenham does is wrong, that's come out as a negative. Be that as it may. From my point of view, I was delighted because as I said if that's tomorrow night and we get a penalty in the last minute and get a third goal which could be really decisive, I'm really pleased with the way the players handled it.
Postecoglou is here
Everyone's good from the weekend from a physical standpoint. It's a good place to be for us, hasn't been many occasions when that's happened this year. We're all excited. It's a quarter-final of a European competition, a home game as well which adds to that excitement so looking forward to it.
