Spurs head coach Martin Ho has said that his side ‘become a better team’ from experiences like Saturdays defeat at Arsenal.
The North London derby ended in a 5-2 loss for Spurs who competed well for large portions of the 90. Arsenal’s firepower was too much however with Lionesses star Alessia Russo scoring a hat-trick.
Martin Ho spoke to the press following defeat at the Emirates Stadium and The Halfway Line was present to hear from him.
‘We give them three goals’ laments Martin Ho
Arsenal were 2-0 up within seven minutes but Spurs did admirably to fight back to 2-1. A misplaced pass from goalkeeper Lize Kop would realistically scupper their chances of a comeback ensuring Arsenal’s two goal cushion was restored. Ho gave his assessment of the 5-2 defeat at the hands of North London rivals Arsenal,
“We give them two goals,” bemoaned Ho. “Well, three goals in the game we give them due to individual errors or not being competitive enough on three of those goals.
“Two are good finishes if I’m honest. Yeah, we bring ourselves in the game again we’ve had moments in the first half, large moments in the second half of control. But we’ve got to, we’ve got to start removing these errors, because we’re getting punished.”
Defeat to Arsenal meant that Spurs had now lost three matches in a row, the Spurs head coach was asked what he puts that down to,
“You can put it down to a lot of things, in terms of experience, occasions,” Ho said. “Have we been in these enough? Have we grown our mentality in these from previously?
“We’ve definitely grown in mentality and character, from not quitting and not giving up, because previously we would have probably just dropped our shoulders and dropped our heads and kind of give in.
“We kept pushing the game, we kept playing the way we want to play, and [it’s] just about removing these errors now, and players realizing that us as staff working on that with them to take them away.
“What we can’t dismiss is it doesn’t make you a bad team overnight, because you have a couple of defeats. We were second to bottom going to get relegated, and we’re sitting in fifth.
“If you’d have asked me that at the start of the year, when everyone put their predictions out, you said we would have finished second to bottom nearly every single person.”
Spurs will ‘become a better team’ from Arsenal defeat says Ho
Despite the defeat on the day, Spurs scored their first two goals at the Emirates stadium. The Halfway Line asked Ho if it is possible to be disappointed in the result and still appreciate the positives with his squad,
“Yeah, there’s large positives to take,” Ho explained. “If you think of how we played and what we’ve done, how we performed in the game.
“We’ve come to the best in the world if we’re honest, around the team who they are and what they’ve achieved over the last 6 to 12 months. And we pushed them back in large moments, and speaking to some of the players and staff, then they say the same in terms of, you feel like you’re this close but you feel like you’re this far away still.
“We can take a lot from I thought a lot of our football, we were brave. We connected really well in large parts of the second half. First half, we pushed them back and got in good positions, but we the final delivery in action we just didn’t, didn’t have the execution with.
“So there’s a large parts we can take and this will give us good experience, good momentum, but it will also help us go into next year, when we when we step on and we evolve from somewhere onwards. We’ll become a better team from these moments.”
