Harry Kane was absent however there was no concern with goalscoring in Ange Postecoglou’s first aggressive match in command of Tottenham within the Premier League.
Tottenham supervisor Ange Postecoglou stated his facet gave supporters motive to imagine regardless of the departure of Harry Kane after his first style of Premier League motion led to a 2-2 draw at Brentford.
Spurs’ all-time file goalscorer Kane joined Bayern Munich simply 24 hours earlier than Tottenham acquired their season underway on Sunday.
Scoring was not the issue for the guests in Postecoglou’s first aggressive match in cost as defenders Cristian Romero and Emerson Royal struck early and late within the first half.
However in between instances, Tottenham’s defensive frailties had been uncovered as Brentford equalised by means of Bryan Mbeumo’s penalty after which went in entrance due to Yoane Wissa’s deflected effort.
“It’s both an obstacle to you or a chance,” stated Postecoglou of Kane’s exit.
“Harry Kane was huge determine for this membership for a very long time and can proceed to be whether or not he’s within the constructing or not.
“We needed to exit and provides our supporters some hope and perception within the staff. I believed they did that at present.”
Postecoglou took the choice to take away Romero shortly after he had opened the scoring on 11 minutes as a result of suspected concussion regardless of protests from the Argentine centre-back.
The Australian coach stated he had no regrets over that call, however criticised the actual fact it didn’t depend as a concussion substitute as a result of flawed kind being given to the fourth official.
Premier League sides are allowed two further substitutions, on prime of their allotted 5, to exchange gamers suspected of struggling concussion.
“Their (medical staff’s) data was that he wasn’t that regular and together with his head after scoring, I’m not taking any dangers in that state of affairs these days and what we all know of head accidents,” added Postecoglou.
“The final individual you wish to be directed by is the participant himself. He has no thought. The disappointing factor is that apparently we stuffed out the flawed kind for a concussion sub.
“That’s insanity these days. It’s fairly clear why we took the man off. It’s black and white for us, we’re not going to take any dangers with our individuals after we know what the repercussions are.”
