Thomas Frank acknowledged the frustration shown by Tottenham fans after his side was booed off following a toothless display against Brentford.
The Danish manager would have aimed to pick up all three points on his return to his old stomping ground, but by the end of the night, Frank could consider himself lucky to escape with a point.
The Bees were by far the more positive team, while Tottenham struggled, not for the first time this season, to create anything meaningful, drawing a chorus of boos from the away fans after the full-time whistle.
"Yeah, I think it seemed like they were not too satisfied, and it's fair when we don't hit that top performance overall," he said.
"But I think it's double-sided because I think what we need to understand is the acknowledgement of the defensive side of the game, which we've done excellent today against a team that just scored three against Liverpool, three against Man United, so on and so on, but of course the offensive part needs to be better. There's no two ways about that.
"Of course we need to play, it's not that we don't want to play offensive or attacking football. I just think when we're not, how can you say, on the top of the game we would like to be, we work very, very hard on that, but while you work hard on that you can't, if you struggle scoring goals, let's say that, or create enough chances, you can't open up too much because then you need to score too many goals. So, it's a fine balance."
The result means that Tottenham have won just one of their last five away games, picking up five out of a possible fifteen points.
The difference in the reception given to Frank by the home fans and away fans was also a stark reminder of how much work the Dane still has to do to win over the Spurs faithful.
When asked if the supporters needed to be more understanding of the club's situation, Frank said: "That question is very difficult for me to answer, going off a few boos after the game, and as I say, I'm not really reading anything on social media, or articles or all that. I watch the team. I'm very aware that we are not where I want us to be, very aware.
"Yeah of course, you'd prefer everyone is happy and we're winning 3-0. I think the understanding of where we are right now, as a team, and as a club. That's the transparent view of it. I think we have to play with Archie as a 10 - or I decided to do that - we did a little bit different at the end of the game. That's just step by step, we do those things. I'm very confident we will make it fluent and better and scoring enough goals, but with the amount of games and limited training times and the right offensive players available, that's part of it, it's no problem."