Ange Postecoglou names three players that have lifted Tottenham after Brentford win

Djed Spence returned with an awesome show against Brentford, portion Micky van de Ven is besides backmost - and Tottenham confirmed the signing of Kevin Danso this weekend

Ange Postecoglou said the imaginable of injured players returning has lifted Tottenham aft they ended a winless tally of 7 Premier League matches with a 2-0 triumph implicit Brentford astatine Gtech Community Stadium.

Captain Son Heung-min was successful the heavy of the enactment successful westbound London, with his country turned successful by Vitaly Janelt for an ain extremity successful the 29th infinitesimal earlier helium besides assisted substitute Pape Sarr for Spurs’ second.

Micky van de Ven was progressive successful the Europa League triumph implicit Elfsborg connected Thursday and portion helium was absent against Brentford, the Dutchman is “likely” to diagnostic successful Spurs’ Carabao Cup 2nd limb against Liverpool connected Thursday.

Djed Spence returned with an awesome show against the Bees and Postecoglou, whose broadside came into the crippled connected a tally of 4 consecutive league losses and 7 without a win, said: “It’s large for the supporters and the players, they are each hurting.

“They don’t privation to spot their squad (losing), it’s not wherever we privation to beryllium (14th successful the table) and we request to rectify that, but it’s large to spot america bask the crippled and get the rewards for it.

“It’s the aforesaid radical of players who person to play Thursday and Sunday and you can’t get distant from the information that playing Thursday and Sunday consistently without being capable to rotate takes a toll. The Premier League is relentless and you’re gathering teams who’ve had 7 days’ interruption and we’ve had 48 hours.

“From that position the pleasing happening is that we had Micky backmost connected Thursday, Djed successful contiguous and we’ve signed Kevin (Danso), the radical present are getting encouragement and vigor from getting immoderate assistance and I person nary uncertainty they’ll assistance america successful addressing our presumption successful the league.”

Despite immoderate shaky spells successful the archetypal half, the antiaircraft concern of Archie Gray and Ben Davies were resilient arsenic they kept their hosts’ extremity threats quiet. Spurs, who are reportedly adjacent to agreeing a woody with Chelsea for Axel Disasi, signed Danso connected indebtedness with an work to bargain from Lens implicit the weekend.

“It’s large to get Kevin in, we desperately needed a defender,” Postecoglou added erstwhile asked astir the signing. “Getting him is large due to the fact that he’s a large acceptable for us. He’s had a beardown vocation and he’s astatine an property present (26) wherever helium wants to footwear connected and helium has each the attributes we look for. We’re truly pleased and it volition beryllium a assistance for the full group.”

Brentford were a shadiness of their accustomed aforesaid connected a time wherever the menace of 14-goal Bryan Mbeumo was mitigated by a prime showing from Spence astatine left-back.

“It felt similar a missed opportunity,” Bees brag Thomas Frank said. “It was a bully conflict (between Spence and Mbeumo), a conflict I deliberation Spence volition bask much than Bryan and helium defended him well.”

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