‘He said them exact words’: Ange’s big halftime call sparks ‘extraordinary’ Spurs comeback
Tottenham has moved back into the Premier League’s top four and bolstered its Champions League hopes with a chaotic 3-2 comeback win over Brentford on Thursday morning.
Ange Postecoglou helped mastermind the victory, with a double change at halftime and key message seeing Spurs put missed opportunities behind them to overcome a 1-0 deficit.
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“It was just one of them games,” Brennan Johnson, who scored one of Tottenham’s three second-half goals, told TNT Sports at fulltime.
“The manager said before, ‘Once we score one we’ll score two and we’ll score three’. He said them exact words and as soon as we scored that first goal so early I felt like we had to keep the momentum going.
“I just knew I had to be there because that’s what the manager demands of our wingers to get to the back-post and when it fell to me I was happy.
“There’s no secret that recently I haven’t been at my best. I think in those situations I haven’t been in the right positions, so today I made sure I had to be.”
Brentford got the ball in the back of the net first in Thursday’s game, although a look from the VAR confirmed it was offside and no goal for the visitors after Mads Roerslev finished well across Guglielmo Vicario.
Mathias Jensen, who played it in for Roerslev, was the player flagged for offside in the lead-up.
Tottenham had a few chances of its own undone by offside calls in the early stages of the game too, with Timo Werner threatening down the left from the opening minute as James Maddison found him only for the flag to be raised.
Only a few minutes later Oliver Skipp had a shot blocked before finding Dejan Kulusevski, who had a chance to get a shot at goal but was ruled offside anyway.
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