Ange Postecoglou spoke to the media following Tottenham's 1-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day in the Premier League and we've got every word he said.
The only goal of the game came just before the half hour mark when Anthony Elanga was played through on goal by Morgan Gibbs-White's excellent pass and got beyond Destiny Udogie to steer a shot past Fraser Forster. Brennan Johnson had three efforts saved by Matz Sels but Tottenham could not find a way past the organised Forest side put out by their old manager Nuno Espirito Santo.
Djed Spence picked up a late red card after landing a second booking and Radu Dragusin went off with an ankle injury to continue Postecoglou's player availability problems.
Here's the full transcript with everything Postecoglou said after the game in his press conference at The City Ground. It was a quite a short exchange with the Tottenham boss set to go through it all again at what will be a longer press conference at Hotspur Way on Friday morning.
Is frustration the right word for that defeat?
It's obviously disappointing the defeat, tight game, it was never going to be the kind of game where there would be too many chances. I still thought we had a fair chunk of it where we could have got something out of the game, but it was always going to be a tight game here.
It was a disappointing goal we conceded, but aside from that the boys worked hard and we tried to generate as many opportunities as we could considering the context of the game and how Forest play, but we just couldn't get over the top of them.
It must be frustrating though when you have control of the game but can't make the most of it?
Yeah, but look we're asking a lot of this group of players, a lot of these guys are playing every three days. It's only logical they are not going to be at their sharpest but they are trying and that's all I can ask if them.
It's rare your team doesn't score, why do you think that happened?
It’s a bit of, like I said, game state. I kind of knew that if they can get a goal up, it was going to get even tighter for us to find space behind them. It was never going to be a game with a lot of opportunities.
Having said that, I still thought we created some good ones and we just weren’t able to capitalise on them. The keeper has pulled off a couple of good saves to keep them in the game.
We just needed a goal to break them open and we didn’t seem to get it.
How is Radu Dragusin?
He was a bit sore. He hurt his ankle and said he couldn’t continue so we'll just have to wait and see.
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