Conversation Corner: Tottenham versus Everton
Mauricio Pochettino:
“Mauricio, very good performance but disappointed to only get a point.”
“Yes very disappointing, I think that all — we are disappointed because we play much better. Tim Howard was Man of the Match and this is I think a good answer for me. And I’m disappointed because I think that we deserved more, and in the last few games, we deserved more more more more. But good, clean sheet — first clean sheet. Only we can go up.”
“How important, Mauricio, is it to look at the positives (stats versus Everton)?”
“It’s very important, only we need to improve on the opening goal — to be more clinical. But this is something that happened — this type of period in our club, but the good thing is that we play much better always at the opener. Better than Manchester United, better than Stoke City, Leicester and Everton. I think that we are on our way, but it’s true it’s disappointing and you feel a little bit frustrated. Because you play better and draw, you play better and draw, you play better and draw. And this is a little bit upset to me, because why? Why? Because we deserve more but we need to work hard and stay calm. And I think that when we have all the squad to play and more competition between us, I think that we improve a lot.”
“After every game, we’ve said “We deserve more, we deserve more” how important is it to turn those performances into wins?”
“Yes yes, we need to keep our performance, we need to keep our performance, and this is the right way. And we have no worry. I think that when we come in again, we come into this situation with Eriksen, N’Jie and Son, I think that we’re a strong team. But only wait time and working hard.”
“We have an international break, do you wish to play on Tuesdays or Wednesdays?”
“Yes yes yes but, it’s okay it’s good. No two week — good for us. Yesterday a lot of players go to their international team but we have time to review a lot of things.”
“Lastly, Mousa Dembélé went down in the second half. Is he okay?”
“I don’t know, we don’t know. We need to asses him more with what happened to him because of his foot and I’ll wait tomorrow to asses him.”
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