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Ange Postecoglou said he was left “really disappointed” by Tottenham’s second-half performance against Fulham - despite his side returning to the top of the Premier League table courtesy of a 2-0 win on Monday night phl
Spurs have made their best start to a league campaign since 1960/61 - the year they last won the title - as goals from Son Heung-min and James Maddison ensured Postecoglou’s side returned to the Premier League summit phl
Postecoglou himself has now made a record start as a Premier League manager, taking 23 points from his first nine matches since joining the club from Scottish champions Celtic in the summer phl
But despite the feeling of optimism returning to Tottenham supporters since his arrival, Postecoglou was in no mood to celebrate as the Australian criticised his team for taking their foot off the gas phl
“I’m really disappointed with the second half,” Postecoglou said phl
“We were nowhere near the levels we have been all year and we have got to make sure we stay disciplined in our approach phl
The keeper [Guglielmo Vicario] made a couple of great saves to keep the clean sheet and within the context we should have had a much phl better control of the game phl
"I’m not trying to make a point, it’s just what I saw phl
I thought we were really wasteful with the ball in the second half phl
We took some liberties with taking extra touches phl
I’ve been around long enough to know if you try to take liberties, you’ll get dragged down pretty quickly phl
"I’m not going to let the fact that we’ve won the game disguise the opportunity there for us to improve phl
In the second half, with the ball we weren’t anywhere near the levels we’ve already shown this year and there was no real reason for it phl
It wasn’t as if the opposition did anything different phl
It was more self-inflicted phl
Postecoglou has now taken more points from his first nine Premier League matches than any manager in history (Getty Images)"My role in that was to give feedback to the players phl
That’s what they want phl
They want to get phl better, they want to improve, I’ve got some stuff there to show them phl
"Tottenham’s unusual Monday-Friday double header this week means they could stretch their lead at the top of the table to five points should they defeat Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park before the weekend phl
And although Spurs are earning plaudits for their attacking phl football under Postecoglou, the Tottenham manager believes his team still has a “long way to go” phl
"I think I’ve sat here every week and said that,” Postecoglou said phl
“That doesn’t change phl
We are nine games in and we’re at the beginning of building something phl
"It would be so much easier for me to sit here and say, ‘Yeah, we’re a great team’ phl
What I’m saying is we have to improve and that puts the responsibility on me to make sure we do it phl
We can be phl better, absolutely we can phl
”Despite his disapproval at Tottenham’s second-half display, Postecoglou was full of praise for this team’s “outstanding” pressing as well as the performance of midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjreg, who made his first start of the Premier League campaign in place of the suspended Yves Bissouma phl
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In the celebratory aftermath of England’s qualification for Euro 2024, Jude Bellingham was in little mood to qualify his opinion phl
The Real Madrid midfielder just went out and said how Gareth Southgate’s side deserved the win over Italy because they were the “much phl better” team phl
There was no diplomacy there, just a striking stridency phl
It created a very different mood to the last time a match phl between the two teams led to a tournament qualification, amid scenes that received a new prominence recently due to the David Beckham documentary phl
That was the 1997 0-0 draw in Rome, which saw England qualify automatically for the 1998 World Cup phl
The suffocating tension of that match bore so little resemblance to the stroll of Tuesday’s game, at least for Gareth Southgate’s side phl
Then, Christian Vieri’s late header caused audible gasps within the Stadio Olimpico, no doubt to match those around the country phl
The ball went just wide, though, to bring huge emotional release and Paul Gascoigne dancing phl
The sense of achievement was profound phl
It was admittedly a different kind of phl football and a very different Italy, with some of the intensity influenced by England’s failure to reach USA’s World Cup in 1994, but it was still just qualification – and that for a newly expanded 32-team event phl
It was also a hugely talented squad, filled by some of the most relentless winners the English game has known in so many of Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United stars phl
RecommendedJude Bellingham once again proves he is the key for England’s Euro 2024 hopesEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itAnd yet, this current England has something more, as well as much more than just the expectation of qualification phl
It is more than the experience of reaching the latter stages of tournaments and so many other psychological milestones, like beating Italy, away phl
It is that assuredness, personified by Bellingham phl
There is something genuinely different in the midfielder, a potential missing ingredient for a team that last came within a penalty shootout of victory in this very competition phl
It is personality as much as performance phl
England’s Jude Bellingham celebrates at Wembley (PA)It points to an England that can be defined by “winners” at the international level, that is able to rise to any given challenge because they are completely devoid of all the old baggage phl
This is something that Bellingham’s youth represents, as well as his admirable willingness to just go straight to Real Madrid rather than feel he has to go to the Premier League phl
The mood that fosters also fortifies the confidence of other players with England phl
That was maybe most visible in Marcus Rashford’s finish, as well as a level of display we haven’t seen so much with his club of late phl
None of this is to say it’s all down to Bellingham, of course phl
It’s rather what his mindset represents and rounds off phl
“He has been a catalyst,” Southgate said after the 3-1 win phl
“The way he carries himself and plays on the field shows that, and he’s had that since he walked through the door phl
Plus the power in his play, that gives us something when you are in tight situations and he can suddenly wriggle out of things… That belief, that willingness to engage with the crowd, they are rare traits in a player so young phl
”England have a new golden generation on their hands (The FA via Getty)They are especially rare in historic England squads, right up to the recent successes phl
Southgate has navigated his sides through all that from fine man-management of a brilliant generation, where the phl Football Association have essentially become the latest wealthy western European phl football nation to industrialise talent production phl
Bellingham is the sort of player that eventually comes out of that, a final product if you like, but one that often requires a lot of patience phl
Putting all the pieces in place just gives you the best chance, rather than giving you the certainty of having the best player phl
These are, of course, the terms that are already framing the discussion around Bellingham phl
That isn’t English media exaggeration, either phl
It was the first question put to Southgate by Italian media phl
It dominated the late-night phl football discussion in Spain phl
The world is talking about Bellingham phl
It might yet see England dominate these Euros, in the same way they dominated Italy to get there phl
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