Mate-gate: Postecoglou's 'most disappointing' loss as Spurs boss

Ange Postecoglou didn't hold back after Tottenham squandered a two-goal lead to lose 3-2 at Brighton.

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00:00That's probably the most disappointing loss I've had since I've been here, in terms of

00:07the way we went about it, and it's something I need to assess.

00:14I certainly didn't feel like that's the way the game was going to go. You understand that

00:21at 2-0, obviously, they're going to come out and be fairly aggressive in their approach,

00:25but that's not the first time we've faced that, and we've usually dealt with it pretty

00:28well. Obviously, today, we failed to do the things we needed to do.

00:47We probably should have put the game to bed in the first half. We certainly had the dominance

00:50and the chances. We should have had the game done and dusted by then. We didn't do what

00:54you need to do at this level. It's kind of non-negotiable. We just weren't competitive.

01:00We didn't win our duels. We lacked intensity. We kind of didn't deliver the things you need

01:06to at this level as the basics of the game, and we paid a price for it.

01:12Wherever it comes from, it doesn't really matter. It's irrelevant. It's unacceptable.

01:15At the end of the day, you've got to... Like I said, you kind of understand that you're

01:19not going to win every game, but there are manners in which you lose games, and that's

01:25the first time since holding here anyway that we've lost a game in that manner. Honestly,

01:29unacceptable.

01:30What can you do about it going forward?

01:32There's a lot I can do about it. That's why I'm in the role. If I couldn't do anything

01:35about it, I'd get somebody else to sit here.