Brighton defeat a good lesson for Tottenham - Postecoglou - video Dailymotion

Ange Postecoglou says his side learned a lot from their 3-2 defeat to Brighton before the international break

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00:00By appropriate, I mean, you can't just dismiss what happened in the first half and just focus

00:05on the second half. It'd be different if it was a really poor performance all round, then

00:10you've kind of, not an easier, but the analysis can be fairly straightforward, but the question

00:18is why we were so good in the first half and so poor in the second half. And the second

00:22half was more around that it just didn't look anything like ourselves. We were really passive

00:28with and without the ball. We lacked real conviction and courage in everything we did.

00:34It's almost like we felt like we'd done enough. I hadn't seen that before in us and it's a

00:39good lesson for the whole group that you need to make sure that irrespective of how a game

00:46is going, that you kind of stick to the core principles of your football. It's a timely

00:54reminder for us that particularly in a game of football when you haven't put, and really

00:59in the first half we should have finished the game off, that when you don't, it's very

01:04easy for momentum to shift.