Postecoglou praises much-changed Tottenham for battling draw at West Ham

Tottenham Hotspur caput manager Ange Postecoglou praised his much-changed broadside for earning a constituent astatine West Ham United arsenic they drew 1-1.

Postecoglou made 8 changes from the broadside that defeated Bodo/Glimt 3-1 successful the first-leg of their Europa League semi-final, with lone Guglielmo Vicario, Yves Bissouma and Richarlison retained.

They took the pb aboriginal connected arsenic Mathys Tel acceptable up Wilson Odobert to people aft a antiaircraft lapse from Max Kilman but were pegged backed by Jarrod Bowen’s extremity earlier the extremity of the archetypal half.

Despite Tottenham failing to triumph successful the league erstwhile more, Postecoglou commended his broadside for being competitory contempt the raft of changes.

“It’s not casual making 7 oregon 8 changes,” the Australian told BBC Sport.

That’s going to impact the fluency and cohesion. But for the astir portion they stuck to their task truly well.

“Away from location successful a derby and I thought the lads stuck to their task. We didn’t triumph but astatine slightest we got a effect that rewards their efforts.

“I tin lone praise the effort of my boys.”

Ange’s absorption to this afternoon’s 1-1 gully successful East London pic.twitter.com/DCC7TFBAiI

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) May 4, 2025

Postecoglou underlined the request for wholescale changes with Spurs successful touching region of a European last amid their home struggles.

“It’s thing we’ve been doing for a portion due to the fact that we’ve had to. We’ve had a wretched tally with injuries – which inactive hasn’t eased up, to beryllium fair. But with the accidental we’ve got earlier america [in the Europa League], it made sense.”

West Ham caput manager Graham Potter was satisfied with his side’s show contempt going 8 games without a triumph for the archetypal clip since the extremity of 2017.

Potter believed that West Ham were superior successful each departments successful the archetypal fractional but was disappointed they couldn’t sphere that level for the entirety of the 90 minutes.

He said to BBC Sport: “It was a decent show from us. The archetypal fractional was particularly strong.

“We started connected the beforehand ft and were precise positive, pressed well, pressed high. It was a derby truthful we wanted to marque it that way. A batch of what did successful the archetypal fractional was positive.

“I’m disappointed successful the 2nd fractional due to the fact that we weren’t capable to prolong that level of performance.”