Tottenham boss on Djed Spence, Johnson and Odobert injury

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Ange Postecoglou is speaking to the media following Tottenham's 2-1 at Coventry City in the Carabao Cup third round on Wednesday.

The Australian had made eight changes to the team that lost the North London Derby to Arsenal on Sunday and it showed in a disjointed performance at the Coventry Building Society Arena. The game against Mark Robins' Championship side was always going to be a potential banana skin for Tottenham in the days after Postecoglou made it clear that he is aiming to continue his career theme of second season silverware.

Postecoglou left both Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven out of his squad with Radu Dragusin and Ben Davies partnering up in the centre of defence. Lucas Bergvall and Archie Gray were both given their first competitive starts for Tottenham, the latter at right-back, and left-back Sergio Reguilon was also on the bench for the first time under Postecoglou after failing to secure a move away from the club in the summer.

Tottenham were flat and didn't manage a single shot on goal until the second half. Coventry caused them problems and scored after the hour mark when Norman Bassette got down the right and whipped the ball across to Brandon Thomas-Asante to slot home.

Spurs did find an 87th minute equaliser when Dejan Kulusevski held up the ball well and knocked it into his path of the sprinting Djed Spence and he touched the ball home on the slide.

Tottenham were not done though and Brennan Johnson scored a dramatic second in added time. Rodrigo Bentancur played a perfect pass into his path and the Wales international ran through and lifted his shot over the sprawling goalkeeper and into the net.

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 Coventry Building Society Arena.