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Brighton 0-0 West Ham

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How the teams line up...

Brighton: Verbruggen; Wieffer, Dunk, Baleba, Estupinan; Ayari, Hinshelwood; March, O'Riley, Adingra; Welbeck.

Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Gruda, Cashin, Minteh, Mitoma, Gomez, Veltman, Tasker.

West Ham: Areola; Todibo, Mavropanos, Kilman; Wan-Bissaka, Ward-Prowse, Soucek, Paqueta, Emerson; Bowen, Kudus.

Subs: Fabianksi, Cresswell, Soler, Coufal, Fullkrug, Guilherme, Ings, Rodriguez, Irving.

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Fullkrug was right to speak out on West Ham... the data backs him up

The Radar column this week argues that Niclas Fullkrug was right to air some West Ham home truths, despite head coach Graham Potter's disapproval.

The data suggests his assessment of the 1-1 draw with Southampton, given in a candid interview after last Sunday's game, was spot-on.

Read the analysis below.

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Jones Knows: West Ham to earn away win

Sky Sports' Lewis Jones:

"Brighton are a team that are easy to play against if you are happy to let them have the ball.

"When they've enjoyed 50 per cent or more possession in a game this season, their record is abysmal. In the last 21 games, they've won just three of those matches.

"In that time, they've drawn at home with Ipswich, Leicester, Southampton, Wolves, Brentford and lost to Everton.

"I covered their game at Brentford last weekend and they were absolutely schooled by Thomas Frank tactically and in terms of application and a desire to win the duels.

"Brentford ran them ragged in transition - and Graham Potter, former Brighton manager no less, is savvy enough to produce a gameplan to beat them.

"West Ham on the double chance at 5/4 with Sky Bet is a fantastic price - as is the 4/1 for the away win."

SCORE PREDICTION: 1-2 | JONES KNOWS' BEST BET: West Ham to win (4/1 with Sky Bet)

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Potter: Fullkrug's comments not helpful

West Ham boss Graham Potter has told outspoken striker Niclas Fullkrug his angry post-match comments were not helpful to the club.

Germany international Fullkrug accused half of his team-mates of not listening to the head coach after they conceded a last-gasp equaliser to draw 1-1 at home to rock-bottom Southampton last weekend.

Potter admitted the 31-year-old may have had a point, but felt his opinion should have been aired behind closed doors.

“I think he wears his heart on his sleeve,” said Potter. “I would disagree with him in some things and agree with him in others.

“But he’s entitled to his opinion. As a senior player, we’ve had lots of honest conversations. And I think for me it’s better to have the conversations in private, not in public.

“Then as a group we move forward. That’s how it is. You need to be honest.

“You need to be able to say what you think. That’s for sure. And then you have to think about the team as well.

“We have a responsibility to the team and the club. And from my perspective, sometimes I could be honest about how I really feel.

“But I don’t think it’s helpful to the players. I don’t think it’s helpful to the club. So, we all have to be aware of our responsibilities as well.”

Last time out: Brentford 4-2 Brighton

Hurzeler doesn't want 'happy-clappy' culture

Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler says he has no problem with Danny Welbeck’s public criticism of his team-mates and is determined to avoid a “happy-clappy” atmosphere at the club.

Welbeck was highly critical of the players’ performance following a 4-2 loss at Brentford which extended the Seagulls winless run to six games and further dented their ambitions of securing European football.

“We need to play far more collectively. Fight for each other more,” Welbeck, who scored his 10th goal of the season at the Gtech Community Stadium said.

“It was evident that we weren’t doing that.”

Asked about Welbeck’s comments ahead of Saturday’s visit of West Ham, Hurzeler said he was happy for his players to be “honest” with each other.

“Danny Welbeck, we all know he’s a leader on the pitch and beside the pitch,” Hurzeler said.

“He’s someone who’s here for a long time, who scores a lot of goals, who gives a great effort for this club so we can be sure he wants the best for this club and the best for his team-mates.

“What I always demand is for a culture where not everything is happy-clappy.

“We demand a culture where we can be honest with each other, where we can share our thoughts, where we can give each other critical feedback.

“If you only are positive and only clap the shoulders of your team-mates then I’m sure no-one gets better from that. So that’s the main thing that I demand here in this club and in this environment.

“Of course it should be a positive environment but it also should be a very demanding environment, a demanding culture, because like this you improve as a team and as individuals.”

Last time out: West Ham 1-1 Southampton

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Potter determined to help West Ham heal from 'hangover'

Graham Potter believes West Ham are suffering with a hangover stretching back to when David Moyes was in charge.

The Hammers were booed off last weekend after conceding a last-minute equaliser to draw 1-1 at home to rock-bottom Southampton.

They currently lie a lowly 17th in the Premier League having collected just 13 points from 13 matches since Potter took over from the sacked Julen Lopetegui in January.

Moyes memorably guided West Ham to the Europa Conference League title in 2023, but his final season became a slog with the Hammers eventually finishing ninth.

Lopetegui took over in the summer but failed to lift the mood - the Spaniard managed 23 points from his 20 matches in charge - and Potter says his players are still bearing the scars of some heavy defeats.

"In the 40 games before I arrived the club conceded 80-something goals in the Premier League, and scored 50. That's a minus-30 goal difference," said Potter, who takes his side to former club Brighton on Saturday.

"So if you're a West Ham fan and that's what you've seen for a period of time, then of course you're going to be upset. You're going to be frustrated. I'm the same.

"It's a long period of results, 6-0, 5-0, 4-0, those type of results can create a feeling, whether you try and push it away or not, it's still there because that's the recent history.

"If you add another layer to that, if that's a team from the Championship, it's still a tough season but it's a team from the Championship.

"But if you're West Ham and you recently won a trophy and you normally go for Europe, then you can imagine the pressure that's coming on to the group.

"That's what we have to deal with, we have to find a way together to get through it and we will because I see the character of the players, I see the quality, I see what they're trying to do every day."

Expected formations...

March makes first start of season for Brighton

Solly March makes his first start of the season for Brighton as Fabian Hurzeler makes three changes from their 4-2 defeat at Brentford.

March, who has been plagued by injury, comes in for Yankuba Minteh while Joao Pedro drops out due to suspension after his straight red card.

Simon Adingra and Yasin Adingra come in and Jan Paul van Hecke is absent after sustaining a head injury last weekend.

Kaoru Mitoma remains among the substitutes after coming off the bench to score last weekend.

Fullkrug benched after criticising team-mates

West Ham boss Graham Potter has dropped Niclas Fullkrug to the bench after the striker criticised his team-mates following last weekend's 1-1 draw with Southampton.

Fullkrug accused half of his team-mates of not listening to the head coach after they conceded a last-gasp equaliser.

Potter said this week that the Germany international's comments hadn't been helpful and should only be aired in private.

Tomas Soucek comes into midfield while Aaron Wan-Bissaka returns at right-back for Vladimir Coufal.

Konstantinos Mavropanos starts at centre-back with Carlos Soler dropping out.

West Ham team news

West Ham: Areola; Todibo, Mavropanos, Kilman; Wan-Bissaka, Ward-Prowse, Soucek, Paqueta, Emerson; Bowen, Kudus.

Subs: Fabianksi, Cresswell, Soler, Coufal, Fullkrug, Guilherme, Ings, Rodriguez, Irving.

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Brighton team news

Brighton: Verbruggen; Wieffer, Dunk, Baleba, Estupinan; Ayari, Hinshelwood; March, O'Riley, Adingra; Welbeck.

Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Gruda, Cashin, Minteh, Mitoma, Gomez, Veltman, Tasker.

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Brighton without Van Hecke

Brighton will be without the services of Jan Paul van Hecke against West Ham after he was carried off on a stretcher following a clash of heads at Brenford.

The defender should be able to return next week.

“I think everyone saw the foul so it was a tough one,” boss Fabian Hurzeler said. “We have to be careful with his health.

“We can’t risk playing him this weekend but I am sure that we follow all the protocols and then he will be back next week.”

Neither Chris Eubank Jr nor Conor Benn know how they will be received by the crowd when they fight at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium on Saturday night.

Tens of thousands of people booing your name would be hard enough to take anyway, let alone when you carry one of the most famous surnames in British boxing.

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They have their own demons to face in the fight, they have their own points to prove against each other and to themselves.

They'll wonder too how they will be judged.

"This is the first mega-fight in boxing history where you have two bad guys," Eubank told Sky Sports.

"You have the potential for both fighters in a super-fight being booed into the ring. It's never happened before. It's probably going to happen on April 26.

"It doesn't bother me. I relish it and enjoy it," he added. "It used to confuse and upset me. Now I dream about it. Now I feed off of that energy, I've learned to use it to my benefit. I've accepted my fate."

Yet even hardened prizefighters find it hard to resist a basic human sentiment. They want to be loved too.

"There's been so many times in my career where I thought I was going to be the good guy; the one that was getting the support and getting cheered. It never happened," Eubank said.

"Every time I had a big win or overcame adversity, or put on a good show, came back from defeat, the very next time I was back in that ring I was getting booed again. So I gave up on that dream many, many, many years ago.

"My fight with Liam Smith where I beat him in the rematch was my kind of last hope of being accepted as somebody that everybody could get behind. The first fight I got booed into the arena, lost the first fight, booed on the way out.

"Six months on got booed back into that same arena, got in the ring against a guy everybody said I couldn't beat because I was 'finished', 'didn't have a chin' and 'I didn't want it anymore'. Dominated the fight, had a career best performance. Beat him, stopped him in 10 rounds, shook everybody's hands, it was respectful, no trash talk.

"I thought 'now surely I can get a bit of slack' and the next time I went out in public, Anthony Joshua versus Dubois, I walk into Wembley stadium, 80,000 people, the cameras are on me as I'm walking in. I look up at the screen and all the screens had my face on them as I'm walking in. And the entire stadium boos me.

"So as I'm walking to my seat, I really understood. I'm not that guy, I'm not the golden boy, the one everyone wants to win, the national treasure - I don't know what they call these guys that everyone is always supporting - but I'm not that. I can never be that. So I have no expectation or hope that I am going to get cheered into Tottenham stadium."

Conor Benn doesn't see himself as a 'bad guy'. He insists he's not an angry man.

"I'm not angry. I think that's what people have mistaken. I'm not angry. I'm intense and I'm passionate. You could say maybe I'm a little bit angry. Not with him, I'm just an intense person come fight week. I think it's always personal when someone's trying to take something away from you," Benn told Sky Sports.

"Have I ever lost my composure? Maybe early doors, not now."

Benn's public perception has been shaped by the notoriety. He was originally due to box Eubank in 2022, a bout which was called off after his drug test results emerged.

He protested his suspensions and, after two bouts in the USA in the intervening two years, in November his provisional suspension was lifted and the British Boxing Board of Control and UKAD did not appeal, freeing him to box in Britain.

"I felt like I had vindication when I won the first case, the first hearing," Benn said. "There's nothing more I can do. There's nothing more I can say. Ultimately it's a big story and people just want a story, people want something to gossip about to talk about, but ultimately it's done. Done."

"I was definitely broken," Benn said. "It's still healing.

"I've gone through the hardest fight that anyone can ever go through and that's just life in my own head."

"Everything was taken from him: his credibility, his respect, his name, all thrown away. I'm the only guy that he can make these crazy amounts of money he's going to make fighting."

It's a contest though that Eubank Jr didn't resist taking.

"This is a fight that's got too much public interest. People that have no interest in boxing want this fight to happen. It's become bigger than Conor Benn, and me. History, the story, the legacy of our fathers made this fight massive and now everything that's played out between me and Conor has made the fight explode even more," he said.

"Now it really is mainstream, which is great for boxing. I understand that this is the biggest fight of my career for sure and I'm treating it as such."

Listening to Ange Postecoglou describe the noise around Tottenham Hotspur’s season can feel like living in a world of extremes.

The highs of Frankfurt and the lows of any number of recent Premier League games are just the part on the football pitch. The Spurs head coach used the word "hysteria" at one point, when describing the external voices passing comment on his side.

"Within the football department we've tried to maintain a discipline about how we behave and keep the noise on the outside away from us," he reveals.

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"We came back from Frankfurt on a high and everyone was buzzing, then it was another disappointing game in the week [a 2-1 home defeat to Nottingham Forest] and that flips 180 degrees. From our perspective it's really important we cocoon ourselves from it."

Easier said than done, surely? "It's not easy because as much as I can say to the players 'block out the noise', we all live in the outside world. If I could keep them locked up in here for the next month I'd be OK. What you look at is the behaviour of the players; the way they are training, the way they are talking. For the most part they are handling it pretty well."

What does irk Postecoglou is the idea that Spurs have reached this point where they could achieve European success, without meticulously building and preparing over the course of many weeks and months. He talks to the players about 'The Stonecutter's Credo'. It is an allegory from the Danish writer and photographer Jacob Riis:

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

"Sometimes people look at success and look at the tail end of it and don't realise what's gone into it," Postecoglou explains.

"A lot of it is work that is unseen or seems like you are not really progressing. For us, as difficult as the season has been, a lot of it has been good for us in terms of building resilience and staying united.

"I know that for us to break through and bring a trophy we are going to need bundles of that. We just need to keep banging away at the rock and hopefully on the 101st blow we will crack it."

That final blow represents a possible Europa League Final triumph. It could either be a hugely exciting or frustrating outcome depending on whether or not the stone cracks.

"It just depends on how it pans out," Postecoglou continues. "That's the reality of football. Sometimes you don't get what you deserve. I always found that's short-term. Over the long course you will succeed. It's about getting back at the rock and doing the right things all the time, I really believe in that.

"All the success I've had in my career, none of it has been instant, none of it has been because of one thing or one answer to everything. It's about consistently - over and over again - trying to do the right things. Eventually success comes and sometimes it comes at unexpected times, it doesn't come when you think it should."

Postecoglou is in his 60th year and retains a sense of perspective that comes with the wisdom he has gained over time. He was just half that age when starting out in management at South Melbourne and admits that his younger self would not have coped with the pressures he is under today.

"No probably not, that's the reality of it. Invariably when you are younger you take things a lot more personally, you think things are very definite in terms of the outcomes. Over the course of time you realise none of that is true, everything is just a moment in time and the moments all pass.

"It's not that I never had pressure when I was younger, you always do. For all young managers the first job is really important because if you don't succeed you might not get another opportunity. The pressure is always there, it's just the noise now and the way the world has changed as well. There are so many more platforms.

"When I first started, the media used to be journalists and that was it. Now every platform you can think of has an opinion and they all have the ability to voice that opinion and it can feel really overwhelming, and the younger me would have struggled to cope with that."

If Spurs can prevail in Europe then Postecoglou's mission will arguably have been completed. He was tasked with reducing the age profile of the squad, changing the direction on the pitch and bringing success. It has been a hugely challenging campaign but one that can end with each of those boxes being ticked.

"Yes, that was the brief, that was why I came," he adds. "To change the way the club played its football, to regenerate a squad because it was coming to the end of a cycle, and to win trophies.

"I still feel like that's the motivation and they were the objectives for me coming here and that's what I'm determined to see out. I haven't tried to change the initial mission which was to play football that excites the fans, to bring some exciting young talent to the club, and hopefully succeed."

And as the noise builds ahead of Sunday's trip to Liverpool and that Europa League semi-final first leg against Bodo/Glimt on Thursday, Postecoglou will not let any of it affect his preparations for the biggest test of his Spurs career.

"Provided you stay true to yourself, your head hits the pillow at night and you're fine. In those moments if you change what you believe in, or your values, or who you are as a person, that's where you do have those sleepless nights.

"That's happened at times in my career but as you get older you realise that it's like every other storm, they all pass."

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Wolves 0-0 Leicester

Wolves 0-0 Leicester

Team news reminder

Wolves: Sa, Doherty, Agbadou, Toti, Semedo, J Gomes, Andre, Ait-Nouri, Munetsi, Cunha, Strand Larsen.

Subs: Bentley, Bueno, Hwang, R Gomes, Sarabia, Forbs, Bellegarde, Guedes, Djiga.

Leicester: Hermansen, Ricardo, Faes, Coady, Thomas, Ndidi, Soumare, El Khannouss, De Cordova-Reid, Buonanotte, Vardy.

Subs: Stolarczyk, Justin, Okoli, Kristiansen, Skipp, McAteer, Monga, Ayew, Daka.

Vardy ready to fire?

Wolves' winning run

Wolves have won each of their last five Premier League games, last having a longer run in the top-flight in October 1970 (6).

Headed goal today?

Both Wolves and Leicester have conceded a league-high 12 headed goals in the Premier League this season. However, Wolves have netted the fewest headers of any side this term (2).

Leaky Leicester...

Leicester have conceded 73 goals in the Premier League this season. It’s their most in a single league campaign since 1994-95 (80), and most in a 20-team league since 1914-15 (88).

Cunha chasing Wolves record

Matheus Cunha has scored 14 Premier League goals this season – the only Wolves player with more in a single campaign is Raúl Jiménez (17 in 2019-20)

Maverick Cunha a risk for Man Utd?

Sky Sports' Adam Bate at Molineux:

"Matheus Cunha was strongly linked with a move to Manchester United this week and that makes sense given that Ruben Amorim is playing the same formation as Wolves and the forward has a much-publicised release clause.

"Worth acknowledging, however, that there are questions over his temperament given those two suspension served this season. Cunha is a marvellous player. Can his maverick tendencies be curbed or are they part of what makes him special?

"Profile the player here with help from Nelson Semedo and Rodrigo Gomes, while reflecting on earlier conversations with Gary O'Neil and Cunha himself..."

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Cunha 'perfect fit' for Amorim?

Speaking on the Transfer Talk Podcast, Sam Tighe explains why Matheus Cunha is the perfect fit for Ruben Amorim's Manchester United side.

'Devastated' Coady opens up on season

Sky Sports' Adam Bate at Molineux:

"It was really interesting to talk to Conor Coady recently to get his thoughts on why Leicester have struggled so badly this season. In particular, we spoke in the context of Coady having previously captained a promoted team - Wolves - to a European qualification.

"He had some strong views on the gulf between the Championship and Premier League, arguing that it can be bridged if clubs like Leicester were to make better decisions."

Conor Coady interview: Leicester defender devastated by relegation | Club pay price for not sticking with identity

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Clean sheet for Leicester?

Leicester have kept just one clean sheet in the Premier League this season and have conceded in each of their last 26 matches. It’s their longest run without a league clean sheet since a streak of 37 between February and December 1957.

Vardy's impending exit explained

Sky Sports News senior reporter Rob Dorsett breaks down Jamie Vardy's exit from Leicester City and says the England forward believes he can offer more to other Premier League clubs.

Vardy's moving Leicester goodbye

Following the announcement of his exit from Leicester City, Jamie Vardy says goodbye to the fans, admitting he's gutted to be leaving the club but that the timing of the decision is right.

Last time out for Leicester...

Omens...

Leicester have won just three of their last 19 away league games against Wolves (D7 L9), though one of these was a 4-0 victory in their most recent visit in October 2022.

Leicester have only kept more Premier League clean sheets against Newcastle (13) and Southampton (9) than they have against Wolves (8), despite only facing the Midlands side 13 times in the competition.

Foxes due a goal?

Leicester have failed to score in a league-high 15 different Premier League games this season, only failing to do so in more in the 2001-02 campaign (19).

Last time out for Wolves...

Wolves change two | Buonanotte in

Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa returns with Matt Doherty also fully fit to start so Dan Bentley and Santi Bueno make way.

Leicester City's Stephy Mavididi is injured so Facundo Buonanotte replaces him. Jamie Vardy starts, while Conor Coady faces the club he captained.

Dismal season for Leicester

Leicester have been relegated from the Premier League for the fifth time, after 1994-95, 2001-02, 2003-04 and 2022-23. The last time they suffered the drop before the final game of the season was in 2003-04, with the Foxes winning their first game following relegation back then (3-1 vs Portsmouth).

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Nottingham Forest clung on for a 2-1 win at Tottenham to get their Champions League chase back on track and jump up to third in the Premier League table.

Nuno Espirito Santo's side had slipped out of the top five over the weekend due to wins for Manchester City and Chelsea but bounced back from consecutive defeats with a flying start in north London. Elliot Anderson's deflected strike and Chris Wood's header had them two up inside 16 minutes.

It was then all about their defence. Forest switched to a back three and Spurs piled forwards. The visitors' resistance was eventually broken by Richarlison when he headed in with three minutes of normal time remaining, but Forest battled to the final whistle and a crucial three points.

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Former Spurs boss Nuno has now steered Forest to their first double over the north Londoners since 1997 and his side go bouncing into their FA Cup semi-final with Man City on Sunday dreaming of European adventures. What a job he has done, transforming a club that was battling relegation last season.

There were boos for Spurs at full-time, despite posting 22 shots to Forest's four. They gave themselves too much to do with their sloppy start.

Spurs goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario should have done better with both Forest goals, seeing the first effort go through his hands, and then flying out of his goal to punch a cross but getting nowhere near the ball for the second. He was also too easily beaten by Wood in between - although a VAR offside call spared him on that occasion.

Mathys Tel and Richarlison spurned good chances to respond before the break, and a stunning goal-line clearance from Harry Toffolo denied Dejan Kulusevski in the second half. It was some way for the full-back to mark his first Premier League start of the season.

Tottenham, in action for the first time since their Europa League quarter-final success in Frankfurt on Thursday, ended up posting an expected goals figure of 2.14 to Forest's 0.64 but were repeatedly repelled, with Matz Sels saving brilliantly from Richarlison when it looked like he had found a corner.

The Brazilian won that battle in the end, nodding inside the post on 87 minutes, but ultimately Spurs' early errors and an 18th Premier League defeat of the season stall their momentum from that win in Germany. They remain on course for a worst-ever Premier League finish in between a search for silverware salvation in the Europa League.

Carra: A huge win for Forest

Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher on MNF:

"It feels huge for Forest, not just the points and where it puts them in the table, but psychologically with what has happened in the last couple of weeks. They've had defeats and the opposition have been smelling blood in and around them. Other teams have been in great form in Aston Villa, Newcastle and Man City. That was a big result.

"You could see what Nuno wanted to do in the second half. We've seen them do it so often this season, going to that back five. Not always at half-time, but he backed his defenders and his goalkeeper to get a clean sheet. They almost did it.

"It was a bit nervy for them late on. The goalkeeper made some really good saves and there was a goal-line clearance that was out of this world. But Forest have been a revelation and I think most neutrals want to see them keep going until the end of the season. They don't want to see it peter out."

Nuno: We're in a fight no one expected, us included!

Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo:

"The final minutes were full of anxiety. Wishing the time to go faster. Tottenham put us against the ropes. We reacted really well from the previous performances. The team started well, we were dominant even without the ball. The way we compete is as a team.

"We wished in the second half we could be more positive going forward but you have to credit your opponent and you can't ignore when you're in front of the result the priority is to protect the game."

On Forest's unlikely tilt for Champions League football: "We have to realise we're in a fight no one expected, us included. We don't want to prove anybody wrong. We have a big desire to compete. We are in the mix against big teams. That can only make us proud. We embrace the challenge. We're going to Wembley to compete against a big team. As long as we keep this approach, competing well, you never know."

Postecoglou: We totally dominated - but another unacceptable loss

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou:

"It's another game we've lost when we shouldn't lose. It's been part of our season that we make things really difficult for ourselves in key moments, concentration, giving away poor goals. It's a shame because our football was outstanding. We totally dominated the game. But it's another unacceptable loss.

"I don't need to say anything to the fans. It's too many losses, I know that. They clearly wouldn't be happy with our results. But neither am I or the players. It's something we need to accept responsibility for - that we've fallen short of the standards we have"

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