Every word Ange Postecoglou said on Will Lankshear goal and red card, Lucas Bergvall and defeat

Tottenham Hotspur lost 3-2 at Galatasaray in the Europa League on Thursday night and we've got every word Ange Postecoglou said in his press conference after the game.

went behind when the hosts took the lead six minutes in thanks to a terrific half-volley from Yunus Akgun from outside the box which flew into the top right corner of Tottenham's net. Tottenham levelled though when 18-year-old Archie Gray picked out Brennan Johnson's run with a wonderful pass and he cushioned the ball across to 19-year-old Will Lankshear to smash home his first goal for the club on 18 minutes.

Galatasaray found another goal when Spurs messed about with the ball in their own half and it was worked to Victor Osimhen to poke home. The on-loan Napoli striker bagged another goal five minutes before the break when he side-footed a deep cross into the net.

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The home side continued to heap the pressure on Spurs, who lost Lankshear to a second yellow card before the hour mark for a late challenge. The 10-man visitors did grab a goal back when substitute Dominic Solanke executed a lovely dragged back flick to score from Pedro Porro's low cross, but despite some late openings could not find a leveller.

Here's every single word Postecoglou said to the assembled media with football.london's Spurs correspondent Alasdair Gold among those putting the questions to him in Istanbul.

What did you make of your team's performance?

Obviously disappointing result. First half wasn't great, you know, we just didn't handle things well at all, particularly with the ball, just really wasteful and gave it away way too many times, unnecessarily. That allows them to get a foothold in the areas that they're good at.

They got some good players in the front third and we just allowed that to happen way too often and ultimately paid a price for it because I thought, you know we always finish strongly and I knew we would in the second half. Obviously going down to 10 men didn't help, but even with 10 men, I thought we probably played the best football, we did all game and got our second goal, had some opportunities to get a third there, but I thought we were looking the better side. So disappointing outcome, unfortunately, brought on by a disappointing first half.

This is your first loss in the Europa League, did you expect Galatasaray to play like this?

We expected a tough game here. Obviously, they've been in good form all year and undefeated at home. And, I thought the game was as expected. They have some dangerous players and you need to control the game with the ball better than we did tonight. I think that first half ultimately cost us the game and disappointing for us. Galatasaray are a good side. We know that. They're in a good position in the Europa League as are we. Hopefully that continues.

Will Lankshear scored his first goal but also picked up a red card, what did you make of him tonight?

Yeah, look Will took his goal well, he worked hard for the team. Obviously he hasn't had a lot of experience at senior football so he would have learnt a lot today. The red card, it was a bit of overenthusiasm in that moment to give away a foul, but he'll learn from that. The same with Lucas here. Giving him an understanding of the levels here. It is not easy when you are playing away in Europe. You can only allow them to learn that by exposing them to it. I thought Archie was great. It was a tough game for us defensively at different times but I think we'll get so much growth out of him because he's not playing in his position. I guess for three teenagers in the starting line-up, I think they'll learn a lot from it and hopefully it helps with their development.

Did you have some problems with set pieces and did you expect Galatasaray to start with three centre-backs?

Yeah, I don't know what you mean by set pieces, I think we're fine on set pieces and yeah, we expected them to start like that, even when they play with four at the back, they really build up with three. So we expected that.

If you look at the away games Spurs play they mostly have possession but with Galatasaray it wasn't like that, did you expect this or was it a choice?

As I said, especially in the first half, we gave the ball away too much. Not because of the opposition, we just lacked composure and we needed to be a bit more calmer on the ball. Because we weren’t we allowed Galatasaray to get a foothold in the game. We knew if we could keep the ball well in the first half we would finish strong but we didn’t do that and paid the price.

Why did you struggle to control the game in the first half? Did the atmosphere play a part or is that part of the risk when you make so many changes? Or were Galatasaray too good?

No I don’t think so. It was probably a combination of all those things. I just felt it was self-inflicted. We had real simple solutions out there to keep the ball and as we showed with 10 men it wasn’t that difficult to do. We just didn’t. Individuals within needed that to be stronger on the ball and make sure we play the kind of football we try to do every week and we didn't do that. Maybe it was a little bit the changes I made and the environment or the atmosphere or whatever you want to call it, the opposition. The moments that stick out to me are when there was no pressure on us and we are still giving the ball away.

I think we need to be better in those moments because if we are better in those moments then you minimise the threat the opposition has but also we get a foothold in the game in the areas we want to. We did it with 10 men. We were playing through them quite easily with 10 men but with 11 we just didn’t have anywhere near the conviction we needed to so it’s disappointing.

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