‘Was it?’: Ange Postecoglou’s hilarious reply to question about ‘great’ finish in Spurs’ win

Everything is going right for Ange Postecoglou and Tottenham right now.

Spurs are top of the league, undefeated and have scored in every single game — making for the team’s best start to a Premier League season since 1980.

It didn’t come easy on Saturday night, with a 10-man Tottenham sneaking home after a Micky van de Ven goal — his first since joining the club in the summer from Wolfsburg.

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Postecoglou though had a cheeky response when a journalist asked him about the defender’s goal, describing it as a “great finish”.

“Was it?” Postecoglou laughed.

“I thought he just toe-poked it. I’ve got a higher standard. It was a fantastic finish but I don’t think there’ll be many highlights of it moving forward.”

The assist from James Maddison in the lead-up to the goal was certainly highlight-reel stuff though, with the new Tottenham recruit surgically piercing through the Luton Town defence before getting the ball through a tight window for van de Ven to put it home.

It continued an impressive start to Maddison’s Spurs career, having won the Premier League’s player of the month award for August.

“The way we started he was instrumental in that,” Postecoglou said of Maddison.

“He played some great balls though and opened them up with Sonny and then in the second half we were going to need his clever thinking and outside of the box thinking to create something.

“Mase [Ryan Mason] works really hard with the guys on set-pieces and he’s always said that if it’s on early, get an early corner or set-piece and you can see Madders’ brain working in that moment before they’re organised and it creates a bit of magic for Micky to score.

“He’s