Postecoglou praises 'excellent' Tottenham after West Ham win

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou says his players stuck to certain principles in their 'dominant' 4-1 victory

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00:00Yeah, no, it was very good. I mean, I think even the first half, we had to work pretty

00:07hard. It was a bit of an arm wrestle. They're a big physical team and you have to sort of

00:12match them in certain areas. Obviously disappointing to concede, but I thought we worked our way

00:17back into the game and had some good chances in the late first half and we got our reward

00:22for it. And then, yeah, certainly second half we went up a gear. Again, I thought our football

00:28was excellent, but we did some of that hard stuff we needed to do to sort of gain control,

00:34particularly in the midfield area, and I thought that gave us a good platform. I sort of made

00:38it pretty clear about the Brighton game that there's certain principles underpinning our

00:42football that allows us to be kind of the expansive creative team that we are, and that

00:49is some real sort of emphasis on hard work and organisation and discipline. And we had

00:55to show both today. I don't think we would have been as dominant even in the second half

00:59if we didn't have that sort of underpinning of a strong foundation there.