Tottenham boss on Cristian Romero, Van de Ven and Bergvall

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Ange Postecoglou is holding his press Tottenham drew 2-2 with Bournemouth on Sunday afternoon in the Premier League and here are our Spurs ratings from the match.

Postecoglou made six changes to his Spurs team that fell to a poor 1-0 defeat on Thursday night in Alkmaar in the Europa League last 16 first leg. The Spurs boss has brought Cristian Romero and Dominic Solanke in for their first starts since December and January respectively. Son Heung-min and James Maddison were dropped to the bench with Postecoglou attempting to inject fresh legs into his side to face the Cherries, who had eight days to prepare for the fixtures.

A nervy first half from Spurs ensured a couple of big early saves from Guglielmo Vicario and just as the hosts looked like they were getting a foothold in the game so Bournemouth opened the scoring before the break. A poor pass from Pedro Porro left him exposed and Milos Kerkez ran into that space and curled in a cross for Marcus Tavernier to slide home.

Pape Matar Sarr missed a big chance at one end before Bournemouth netted a second as Justin Kluivert, who had an effort ruled out for offside himself, played in Evanilson and the striker dinked a shot over Vicario.

Spurs grabbed a goal back first when Sarr curled in a cross that sailed over everyone and bounced in off the left-hand post. Then the scores were levelled when Son was brought down in the Bournemouth box by Kepa. He stepped up to hit a calm penalty down the middle.

Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold is among those putting the questions to Postecoglou after the game. Scroll down for his latest updates from the press conference at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.