Ange Postecoglou gave an emotional speech to his Tottenham players after they booked their place in the Europa League final.
Amidst one of their worst league campaigns in the club’s modern history, European football has served as a consistent reprieve for Spurs and Thursday night proved no different.
After securing a 3-1 victory on home soil in the first leg of their semi-final clash with Bodo/Glimt last week, Postecoglou’s side travelled to Norway intent on moving within one game of their first European title in more than three decades.
Just one day after their north London rivals saw their European hopes dashed at the hands of PSG, goals from Pedro Porro and Dominic Solanke were enough for Tottenham to comfortably progress to the final later this month.
With his side potentially just 90 minutes away from fulfilling his prophecy of second season silverware an emotional Postecoglou addressed the team in the dressing room post-match.
Looking ahead to an all-English clash with Manchester United, Postecoglou delivered a rousing address to his squad, with a video of the speech shared on the club’s official X account.
Tottenham cruised past Bodo/Glimt on Thursday to book their place in the Europa League final
Ange Postecoglou hailed the ‘outstanding’ efforts of his players in an emotional speech after the game
‘I’ve said it before that what you, as a group, players and staff have gone through this year… I’ve been in this game a long time, I’m very experienced, I’ve experienced it all, but I’m so proud of how all of you have just stuck together,’ he said.
‘Not one time have I felt like people are not believing or have lost what we have in here, and it’s just outstanding.
‘People will never realise what it’s taken for you guys to be in this position, and you deserve all the credit for that.
‘It’s unbelievable what you’ve done. To come to this place, difficult place, win comfortably, but the whole time through, all the things we’ve had to deal with. There’s people who aren’t with us today, who are back home.
‘Fraser [Forster] played a big part, Sonny’s played a big part, Madders, Lucas [Bergvall], Radu [Dragusin], they’ve all played a big part.
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‘Everyone’s contributed, and that’s the main thing that’s got us to this point. We’ve had problems for sure, but we’ve stuck together, and you deserve it. Now we’ve got two weeks, just under two weeks to prepare.
‘Every day is important, every day, every training session, every game we have between now and then is about getting ready for that big game.
‘You can change things, you saw what you did, 400 supporters here today, they’ll never forget it. There’s thousands back home, you can make it something really special.
‘I keep saying to you, this is the group of players that are going to do it. So focus on that for now, but you deserve all the credit, it’s been outstanding. So from tomorrow we focus, yeah?’
