“Yeah, obviously [wondering how Spurs didn’t get a result]. Very similar, I guess to our first away game when we controlled it for the most part, nullified most of the threats that Newcastle have. It’s obviously a difficult opponent here at home. The crowd create a pretty strong atmosphere for the home side, little things go their way but I thought for the most part we handled that really well.
“Then we gained the ascendancy in the game and we just needed to kill it off and we didn’t and a disappointing second goal. I thought we switched off a little bit but the game should have been well over by then. So, another sore one unfortunately where we haven’t got the rewards for our play, but ultimately it’s three strong performances from the first three games. The results don’t reflect it in that way.
“Potentially [we missed Solanke and Richarlison] but I still think even outside of that we just had some really good opportunities, a little bit more composure. Fair play to Pope, I thought he had an outstanding game. But I thought we could have tested him a few more times with just some better decision-making. It’s not just the opportunities we did create. I thought there was another probably six to 10 moments where we could have created even more opportunities. That’s been a constant theme for us that we’re trying to break through.”
Postecoglou noted that Tottenham were frustrated a bit by Eddie Howe’s decision to play bunker-and-counter defense against them on Sunday, but also noted that Tottenham did a decent job of getting into the box despite a number of long shots.
“When an opposition defence stays deep, it’s pretty hard to get in there. There are 10 bodies in there at times. Apart from Isak, everyone else is in there. But yeah, we worked our way into that area pretty well, but there were other times when we got even closer to goal in the box and obviously, like I said, we just lacked a little bit of composure, sometimes our positioning was off where we should have been with work and we let them off the hook.”