What is
the team news?
No bad news. This is important. We have all the players available and it's OK apart from Romero
and Giovani Lo Celso. Romero, as I said before, needs a long time to recover. Instead, Giovani,
I think after the Norwich game, will be ready to start again training sessions with us.
Would getting fourth be your biggest achievement?
I think in this moment it's more important to go game by game.
I think it's very important to look at ourselves, not others. The table is surely very important.
I always said we want to try to stay close to the first positions.
When you stay close, you can improve with work, we can improve with time, to improve many aspects
with the players. And then we'll see what happens. Surely we need to improve, to be very good.
Also to also hope that other teams can slip. But at the same time, we have to stay there,
very close. And there's only one way to do this: to get three points.
Norwich is another important difficult game but it's very important to get three points.
The players know we have to exploit this moment and situation, have a good momentum and
stay there. To make points, the table is important. The win gave us confidence and
trust in the work and idea. For us, it's very important to exploit this situation.
How will you get Harry Kane scoring?
First of all, I'm sure that Harry
is happy if we win and he doesn't score. Because Tottenham is the first thought for us and Harry.
As I said yesterday, Harry played a very good game, he was in the situation that we scored and
he had a good chance to score.
Important to have chances to score and we're improving a lot in this aspect.
I'm sure Harry is going to score many goals. I'm sure he's going to have a good performance
in the same way he had against Brentford, but against every team we play.
I'm very pleased for the way that he's playing.
Then I know the striker wants to score but
we want to give him many chances to score. I think we're on the right
path to do this type of situation.
How do you explain Harry's goals for England but not for Spurs?
But I think that Premier League is a very, very tough league and every game that you play is not
easy. Sometimes with the national team you can play against teams not so strong, not so strong.
Also to have more opportunities to score, not only for him but all the players.
This league is very strong, this league is the most difficult league in the world.
For this reason it’s not simple to win a game, get three points and to score goals.
This is the great difference that you can find between the two different situations.
You spoke about Son playing where he is or as a number 10, what do you see as his best position?
For me, with this system we’re playing we’ve two number 10s, but for me, they’re two strikers.
We’re playing with a number nine that is Kane,
as a point of reference. Then two players very offensive, like Sonny and Lucas,
in the starting XI because behind we have Bergwijn, Dele Alli, Lo Celso and Bryan Gil.
For me, Sonny is a really, really good player, a top player. He’s a modern player.
He has great quality. He’s fast, he’s resilient, he’s strong. When you have all
these characteristics, it means that you’re a top player and Sonny has all these characteristics.
Joe Rodon has not started many Premier League games in the past
year, will Cristian Romero's injury give him more opportunities under you?
The first thing that I'm trying to do – and am doing – is try to find the right position
for every player., and in every position is to have another player.
For in the characteristic in my idea, I see Joe behind Eric Dier in the central position.
For sure this position is a singular position. If you’re a central defender
on the right or the left, you can have more options to play.
To stay behind the central defender, you have only one option but Joe is a player who has showed me
really, really great commitment, a will and desire to learn and improve himself.
I think this is good. It's a really good example for the other players.
He’s a silent player that works and works because he knows that he wants to improve.
I’m satisfied for the improvement that I’m seeing in the training sessions about him.
Hugo Lloris is
out of contract in the summer, have you spoken to him about that and do you want him to stay?
Yeah but I’ve just arrived. Only one month. In this moment,
for sure, we have many situations to solve.
Hugo is the captain of this team, captain of France, we’re talking about a top goalkeeper.
He’s very focused now and he knows very well that now we’re trying to do our best.
Me as a coach, Hugo
as a goalkeeper and every player has to perform at high level, but for sure we’ll have time to speak
about him and I consider him an important player for Tottenham, for his experience.
He’s a good goalkeeper
first of all and many years at this club he has showed always great commitment for this club.