John Stones

It's the same for both teams, and we just tried to play our football as we could.

I think from my perspective from the game, it was...

had to adapt a little bit and maybe not play too many risky balls or make decisions differently in certain areas and play maybe longer or be a bit more safe.

In the end it worked out well and we got the three points so that's the main thing.

Yeah, not to hang on to it.

He wanted us to play as we do as always.

But I think you've got to take matters into your own hands sometimes and know what kind of situations you're in.

Today the ball was bouncing and we knew that it wasn't right to try and bring it down and play through the middle because...

Tottenham pressed high and they regained the second balls quite well, so we knew that we had to go that extra line and maybe play to the strikers and try and feed off things like that.

That's the conditions that we can come up against.

It can be sometimes maybe snowing or, I'm not going to say heat, it's never sunny in England, but the pitch was one of those things tonight and we just had to deal with it.

Yeah, definitely.

I think we've got to take our chances when we're on the pitch as well.

There's that many games.

We all know that we're going to play a big part in what time we get out on the field.

From my point of view as well, keeping the clean sheets, I feel like I've matured and obviously another season behind me from last season.

So, yeah, it's great to be making these partnerships with Aymeric and whoever we play with.

There's a lot of rotation in the squad and, you know, we've just got to make sure that we give it everything while we're on the pitch and repay the faith to the manager.

Well, we know Harry's very clinical, so we had to stop him as high up the pitch as we could.

We know he made a lot of great runs in behind.