Mauricio Pochettino

During the week I was so trying to explain to the players that we weren't great, like the perception told us, and the reality was completely different.

And I think today, the first 45 minutes, and of course it disappointed me after we scored 1-0, but the first 45 minutes we played football and you need to compete.

And it's not the same to play football than compete.

If we...

Rather to play football today in the first 45 minutes, we compete in the way that we need to compete in the Premier League to win and to win and be a contender.

I think the result in the first half should be different, of course.

I am so proud, I think the performance

with all the circumstances, I think it was a fantastic, brilliant effort.

We played again a very good team, Newcastle was a very good opponent, I think they created some chances maybe to score more than one.

But, you know, sometimes in football you need not only to make the effort, if not some lucky,

But I think with all the circumstances and how we prepared the game with a lot of players that started training Monday, I think only we can say that it was brilliant.

Therefore, we can do better, of course.

We need to play better.

We need to be more consistent and not allow the opponent

to create some chances.

But it was so difficult.

It was a massive challenge to connect everything and start to work like a team only in a few days that we had to prepare the game.

But of course, I'm not going to complain like you know me.

It's only that we need to take that and try to be clever and learn.

And it's a massive challenge to try to