''Against a team like Tottenham is never easy but today was fantastic – full credit to the players in the way they approached the game and the first half. In the way we tried to defend and in the way we tried to play I think it was fantastic. I think it was the first time in the season that I felt so happy because it is the moment after 10 months that the team start to realise how we need to compete.
I don’t know if it’s the best performance but the most important is the feeling [we have]. All negative circumstances that show that we are doing things well, but this was the click to say that we need to compete better, how? Be connected with the game.
If you see today Noni Madueke was amazing in how he helped the fullback. I think the whole team in both phases was connected. A few weeks ago we were talking about what has happened at Chelsea. It’s only one phase and we want to play into the feet with the ball and then run the defensive line, it was unbalanced the situation. And the standard was so, so low and all the process we were talking is about time and some luck to have this type of result to really make the players believe that this is the way [forward].''
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