He said: "No, you expect a good footballing side. I understand 100 per cent, I watched the game last night and saw it was said they were not good enough. I thought they put Chelsea under pressure, Chelsea defended them well, pretty deep... scored the goals in the right moments, stuff like this. Chelsea did not bad, definitely not for the situation they are in especially, but if you don't defend Tottenham properly then they will still play through it. They made a few changes, obviously, (James) Maddison didn't start, (Rodrigo) Bentancur didn't start, so I'm not sure if they come back. I think that they have options to change, do they start with Son (Heung-min) up front or on the wing?
"So, I understand that Ange (Postecoglou) doesn't think it's a great moment because of their own expectations, but you can always see a clear footballing idea and that's what they still kept. We will have to be prepared for that, we have to defend really compact, if you don't do that then they'll play through because the idea is really obvious and they work now together nearly a year. It is exactly the season now what they (wanted), it's similar to ours maybe, maybe they didn't think about becoming champion, but they for sure thought about qualifying for the Champions League, which is now not that easy anymore but that's it.
"It's always a challenge (against Spurs). I don't want to make it the biggest subject, but I can't forget the Tottenham game as well, it's just so strange. Only the other night for the first time since Tottenham, Simon Hooper was standing next to me for 90 minutes in a game I didn't enjoy in the first place against Everton. He was there and he was the ref that night (at Tottenham). I tried to get it out of my head, but I couldn't. So, now we play Tottenham and that was obviously not their fault that night, they just played the game, but I would like to win that game for 500 reasons, that we lost there and the way we lost is one of them."