Post-game, Pochettino said about the game being chaotic: We are here to coach. Football is about to entertain and spectacle, to score goals, to feel the passion, the team needs to translate to the fans. The fans will be connected with the team with the way the team started the game today. We always want that. I like to score goals. I don't like to concede goals, like today. We are one of the youngest teams in Europe. We need to grow from this sort of experience."
He then added on his emotions at the final whistle: Passion is not to be a crazy guy doing stupid things on the touchline. I'm not like this. The team needs to show passion when it's 11 players on the pitch, running and desperate to get the ball back and score goals.
I need to be calm, very clinical and analytic to help them in every aspect of the game. At the end of the game, of course show your passion like I did. But it's not a circus where you need a clown to do something on the touchline.
We are one of the youngest teams in Europe, so we the coaching staff need to be calm. I am not a clown, I am a coach. If someone wants a clown, go and find a clown."
On the result, he finished: In the way it happened. It was unfair, the feeling was not so good, why are we losing the game? In football it is like this, but in the end we kept on believing. We were speaking to our players and saying, 'still two minutes', we believed we could score the winning goal. It was a must-win game if we wanted to reduce the gap with the teams ahead of us."