Every word Ange Postecoglou said on making late subs and which Tottenham player was unbelievable

Ange Postecoglou has been speaking to reporters after Tottenham drew 1-1 with Eintracht Frankfurt in their Europa League quarter-final first leg on Thursday and we've got every single word he said.

Frankfurt opened the scoring just six minutes in as Hugo Ekitike fired an excellent low shot into the bottom right corner from outside the box. Pedro Porro then hit back with a terrific equaliser on 26 minutes. A ball from Son Heung-min over the top found Dominic Solanke's run. The striker found James Maddison who jinked past his man and played the ball across the six-yard box where Porro back-flicked it through the defender's legs and into the net with his heel.

Spurs had a flurry of chances in the second half with Lucas Bergvall and Rodrigo Bentancur both hitting the crossbar and Son and Maddison forcing the keeper into saves before Micky van de Ven had a late bouncing header tipped over in the dying moments.

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Our Spurs correspondent Alasdair Gold was among those putting the questions to . Here's a full transcript from the press conference at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Was it disappointing not to win after that spell in the second half?

A little bit frustrated by the result obviously but I thought the performance in general was really good from the boys. We conceded early which was not ideal and it was a fair strike by the lad but I thought our response to that was really good. We stayed in control. We scored a good equaliser. We made them work hard in the first half so we knew in the second half, with our ability to break teams open, we would put them under pressure. It is exactly what happened and the boys did everything right.

I couldn't ask for anything more from them. We hit the crossbar three times, their keeper has made some amazing saves. We had a couple of other good opportunities as well. On any other night we would have a comfortable victory. If we can perform like that over there, and there is no reason why we can't, then we still give ourselves a good chance.

It must be good to have options from the bench again?

I think the guys coming on today made a difference and injected some energy. It could be tight next week, it could go into extra time and we are going to need everyone ready to go and the beauty of things at the moment is we have a squad ready to go and that will be important next week.

Is Destiny Udogie ok, you were signalling over to him at one point?

Yeah he just got cramp. He was unbelievable today. I thought it was incredible the amount of running he did. His effectiveness. It was incredible. He was just cramping up. He will be fine.

What did you make of Lucas Bergvall’s performance?

He was great but the whole team was. I thought Rodri was outstanding. Both full-backs defensively and with the ball were really causing problems. Cuti and Micky handled their front threats really well apart from the goal we conceded which was the only disappointing bit. The front three were working with Madders and were really creative. You can’t ask any more from the lads than what the lads did, especially in that second half to create that many chances. We don’t get the win but I can’t ask any more from the players.

What did you make of that finish from Pedro Porro as a right-back in that position?

That's something we obviously work on, getting into those areas in the box in terms of the half-spaces. Madders we know is really creative and obviously Dom was the one who received it so there was a gap there at the near post. We've always said that we need the next person in line to attack that area and Pedro happened to be that and it was an outstanding finish. If you look at it, Brennan is where he's meant to be, at the far post if the ball goes through, and Lucas on the edge of the box.

It was a well worked goal and I think one we deserved definitely, but we had some fantastic moves in the second half. It's just that we weren't able to capitalise on them.

Can you take that attacking into the second leg?

If we can repeat that next week, and there's no reason we can't, we'll give ourselves a good chance. I really felt like we overwhelmed them with our football, with our running and with our press. It wasn't just the chances we created but the chances we almost created. It's going to be that sort of season. Nothing is going to come to us easy. We're going to have to go there and fight now to get what I thought we deserved tonight and that's what we'll try to do.

You waited late to make the changes, was that to get the boys used to playing together again?

Yeah, I thought we were well in control, well on top and we were creating chances. It was in the back of my mind that on that left-hand side, I knew the boys had worked really hard, with guys like Mathys, Djed and Pape coming on, we could really go at them. They almost pulled off an unbelievable move again when Mathys played it to Djed and Djed to Brennan and it was a carbon copy of the weekend but it went over the bar.

Richarlison made his return, will he get more minutes in the games ahead?

I think with Richy and a couple of others, it was good to get them out there. Obviously we've got a game at the weekend, Richy and others will get more game time there and hopefully that'll get them into a position....next week, you don't know, it may go into extra time and we may need some pretty big efforts from guys so we it was good to get them some minutes today.

Does it feel like the football gods are against you when Micky van de Ven in the last minute heads the ball on to his foot and it's tipped over the crossbar?

Like I said George, I'm resigned to the fact that the football gods have got their eyes elsewhere this year. They're obviously busy with other clubs and other managers so whatever we get we're going to have to do it without them this year.

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