Ange Postecoglou spoke to the media after Tottenham Hotspur began their Premier League season with a 1-1 draw at Leicester City on Monday.
Spurs took the lead on the half hour mark with former Leicester man James Maddison curling a lovely ball into the box and Pedro Porro headed it past the keeper. The visitors carved out plenty of chances in both halves but did not take them and Jamie Vardy duly found a leveller for the hosts from their one real chance before the hour mark as he was left all alone at the back post to head in Abdul Fatawu's cross.
Neither side could find a winner after Rodrigo Bentancur was stretchered off in the second half with what appeared to be a nasty injury and seemingly concussion after a collision from a Spurs corner.
Here's every word Postecoglou said to our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold and the other reporters in the press conference at the King Power Stadium.
How's Rodrigo?
Yeah, look I don't have a lot of information but I know he is up and he's communicating so he's fine from that point of view. But obviously a head injury and I'll leave it in the hands of medical team now. The key thing is that he's definitely conscious and communicating.
What did you make of the match itself?
Yeah, look disappointing outcome. Very dominant first half, really wasteful in front of goal. We started the second half simile. First 15-20 minutes very dominant, wasteful but you know at 1-0 there is always an opportunity for the opposition to come back into the game. That's what happened and we lost our way for 15 or 20 minutes. We lost our composure and the crowd got behind them, but again finished strong. Just really disappointed we lacked a little cutting edge in the front third, made some poor decisions, lacked some composure and didn't get the reward our football deserved.
Speaking of that front third, what did you think about Dominic Solanke's debut?
Yeah, he was good. He worked hard for the team. He had a couple of chances. He will be disappointed he didn't do better with and the overall performance of everyone was OK, but it doesn't mean anything if we don't turn that performance into outcomes. We had similar issues last year and if we're going to get to the next level as a team and bridge the gap to the top sides, it is an area of the game we need to improve.
Was Rodrigo knocked out?
Mate, I don't know. Whenever it's a head injury and you see a player go down, I think nowadays we're always cautious in that moment and I don't know the actual circumstances but I know it was a head collision.
It had been a good performance from Rodrigo but just an unfortunate end?
Yeah, like I said, performance-wise everyone performed well. Ultimately it defeats the purpose of what we're trying to do and that's win games of football, bridge the gap with the top teams and the performance of the players in general was very, very good, but we need to turn those good performances into outcomes.