Newcastle always a tough opponent - Ange - video Dailymotion

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglu on the difficulty of facing Newcastle, ahead of their Premier League clash Tottenham training centre, London, UK

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00:00And in terms of Newcastle on Sunday,

00:01they've obviously got a really good recent record against Spurs.

00:04The game in Australia, I know it was a friendly, but it was much closer.

00:08So what can you take away from those games last season going into Sunday's match?

00:12Yeah, a bit of a contrast.

00:13I thought obviously here at home we did really well against them,

00:16but fair to say up there we didn't.

00:20But it was a good learning curve for us that game

00:23because we started the game OK, but then we conceded

00:27and we kind of lost probably for the first time all year our composure in a game.

00:33And, you know, we allowed them to score quickly.

00:35And you know what it's like up there.

00:37The crowd created a brilliant atmosphere for their team

00:40and we just didn't handle it at all well.

00:43It was a good sort of learning curve for a lot of our players

00:46who, you know, it was their first sort of exposure to a game like that,

00:49to an atmosphere like that.

00:50So, you know, obviously we want to have learnt from that.

00:54But it's still a tough game.

00:56I think any time you go up, you know, play against Newcastle on their home ground,

00:59it's a tough game.

01:02You know, they've got some outstanding players in their team.

01:05They're well coached and it's going to be a great challenge for us.