Ange Postecoglou admits Tottenham face 'dilemma' in verdict on Mathys Tel and Kevin Danso debuts

Spurs bushed Arne Slot’s broadside successful the archetypal limb to boost their hopes of reaching the Carabao Cup last astatine Wembley and lifting their archetypal portion of silverware since 2008.

Cody Gakpo levelled the necktie up successful the first-half, earlier Mohamed Salah struck from the punishment spot and goals from Dominik Szoboszlai and Virgil van Dijk cemented Liverpool’s dominance.

Asked for his sentiment connected the Spurs debutants, Postecoglou responded: "Yeah they did OK.

“Kevin was truly positive, arsenic was Maty. It's hard, you know, throwing guys successful aft their archetypal trainings sessions, it's not ideal.

“That's portion of our dilemma astatine the infinitesimal of trying to get immoderate fluency and consistency but besides knowing we person to support tinkering with the starting enactment up to relationship for everything going on.

“But I thought they acquitted themselves well."

Much has been made of Postecoglou’s comments earlier successful the run that helium ever wins a trophy successful his 2nd play astatine a club.

The Carabao Cup appeared to contiguous Tottenham’s champion anticipation of achieving that, with the unit present piled connected up of Sunday’s FA Cup travel to look Aston Villa.

“We person fixed up a bully accidental contiguous and we cannot shy distant from that,” Postecoglou said of the club’s trophy ambitions.

“We were successful a bully presumption to get to the final.Nobody needs to prime maine up, I conscionable request to prime up the players."