Ange Postecoglou said his team “didn’t have the right mindset to tackle an away fixture in Europe” and were “nowhere near the level we need to be at” after a desperately disappointing performance against AZ left them needing to come from behind to salvage their Europa League campaign. “We didn’t get to grips with any part of the game,” Postecoglou said. “We didn’t really tackle the challenges we had out there in a real positive way.”
The Tottenham captain Son Heung-min, one of many disappointing performers, described the result as a “big, big wake-up call”. Spurs had come to Alkmaar knowing that the Europa League will define the success or failure of their season, and with a sense of having some wind in their sails
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