Son and Maddison 'needed to' step up - Postecoglou - video Dailymotion

Tottenham's Ange Postecoglou says Son Heung-min & James Maddison sensed they had to step up in Southampton win

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00:00They were brilliant. I think they sensed that they needed to tonight. We're just spread

00:08so thin that we're asking young players and players who haven't played a lot and others

00:14who are playing all the time to go out there and still try and play to our identity, still

00:21try and play the football we want to. I thought they were both a catalyst for that tonight

00:25with both their football but also their mindset of just going out there. We had to start strong

00:34today. We kind of knew we'd probably run out of gas at the end of the game considering

00:40the line-up we had out there and coming off Europe on Thursday night. I think the players

00:46sensed that and credit to them that they started the game that way.