Ange Postecoglou proclaimed he would definitely be about “for a little bit longer” after Tottenham secured a Europa League semi-final space with a superb 1-0 win at Eintracht Frankfurt.
Spurs had been again within the last-chance drinkery and up versus it at Deutsche Bank Park after a 1-1 pull within the preliminary leg final Thursday, but created amongst their most interesting show screens beneath the Australian.
Dominic Solanke’s spot-kick 2 minutes previous to half-time cleared up the connection and was received after vice-captains Cristian Romero and James Maddison built-in.
It was Solanke’s preliminary goal in 12 fits and even if Tottenham missed out on possibilities after the break, they very nicely held on to achieve a really first last-four space on this opponents as a result of 1984.
Postecoglou had really confessed to having “no idea” if he would definitely nonetheless stay in a piece hereafter connection on Wednesday with Spurs down in fifteenth within the Premier League, but can at present consider a two-legged semi-final with Bodo/Glimt in May with the membership on program to win its preliminary prize in 17 years.
“I said yesterday, I am the same manager today that I was yesterday so if people think us winning tonight makes me a better manager or whoever thinks I wasn’t doing a good job yesterday, (they) should be feeling the same way,” Postecoglou described.
“I don’t care, it doesn’t hassle me, it doesn’t have an effect on what I do. For me, it’s at all times concerning the dressing room. Do the gamers imagine? Do the workers imagine? That’s far more vital than what others could make of me.
“So, unfortunately for a lot of you, you’re going to have to put up with me for a little bit longer, mate, so let’s see how that goes.”
Postecoglou was gushing in his appreciation for a Spurs group, which shed Maddison previous to half-time after he took an excruciating strike within the thirty eighth min from Frankfurt goalkeeper Kaua Santos to win a definitive positive.
Amid whistles from Frankfurt’s loud standing space, Solanke rolled his positive previous Kaua previous to Romero, Mathys Tel and Rodrigo Bentancur went close to securing Tottenham’s circulation proper into the final 4.
With no 2nd goal upcoming, Spurs wanted to face as much as a battery of late Frankfurt stress, but goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario continued to be undisturbed previous to the total time whistle was met enormous events on the touchline and from the two,800 away followers.
Postecoglou included: “Super happy with the lads. Going away from residence, a quarter-final towards an excellent facet, you’re going to must work actually laborious, be actually disciplined and we would have liked to attain.
“We needed to present the standard we had as nicely. To a person I simply thought they had been excellent.
“Look, we are able to’t get too far forward of ourselves. We’re within the semi-final and can play a troublesome opponent within the semi, but it surely’s not about my perception within the crew.
“What’s extra vital is the assumption the crew has had as a result of after a season like ours, it could be very straightforward for the gamers and workers, they might have left me in a reasonably susceptible place by way of them splintering, however I’ve by no means felt that (even) with all of the noise round our season.
“They’ve been so united in believing in what we’re attempting to realize right here and that’s what gave me coronary heart all alongside that if we obtained our personal slice of luck by way of getting some gamers again, that I actually believed this crew may obtain. That is what retains driving me.
“Not at any stage have I felt they lost any belief in me or what we’re doing. That is crucial when you’re having a difficult season, but there is also a season of opportunity there.”
