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  • FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham - Huijsen header earns Cherries deserved win

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  1. Goodnightpublished at 22:55 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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  3. 'Luckily we finished the job'published at 22:52 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

    FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham

    Bournemouth

    Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola speaking to Amazon Prime: "It has been a good game again. We had the clearest chances and we just did not kill the game in the second half where we were having the clear chances. Luckily we finished the job but there were moments when we thought that if we did not kill them they would punish us.

    "Our defensive performance was most pleasing. We did not give them many chances at all. Everyone defensively was very good.

    "[Dean Huijsen] was very, very good defensively, he got the goal. Obviously we can use his height in the set plays. He is confident on the ball too. He is good news for us. He needs and is demanding the opportunities and I think he will get them more now, Marco [Senesi] is injured so he will get the chance more and more. It is good for us that he has found the level.

    "I don't trust too much in this momentum and confidence thing. The league is so tight. The levels are so small from a win to a loss so we have to reset. We have a difficult game away at Ipswich with just two days of recovery. We cannot continue thinking of the standings or of the points, just competing every game.

    "For me the end of the season is too far. I look at Ipswich, then recover a little bit, then West Ham. We cannot look much further.

    "We will have to show it [that they are better than last season]. If we finish with better than 48 points then we will be, if not then maybe not. We really don't know.

    "We are having great nights this season especially at home against difficult opposition, and we are taking the points."

  4. 'I didn’t like what was being said because I’m a human being'published at 22:48 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou was asked in the news conference about going over to talk to fans at the end.

    "I didn’t like what was being said because I’m a human being but you’ve for to cop it," he said.

    "I’ve been around long enough to know when things don’t go well you’ve got to understand the frustration and disappointment. And they’re rightly disappointed because we let a game of football get away from us. But that’s OK. I’m OK with all that.

    "All I can say is I’m really disappointed and I’m determined to get it right and will keep fighting until we do."

  5. 'They have to figure their consistency out'published at 22:46 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

    FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham

    Eni Aluko
    Former England forward on Amazon Prime

    When Spurs don't have those higher running stats, they lose games. Bournemouth really disputed Spurs' flow and their attacking players didn't look like scoring. They have to figure their consistency out.

  6. 'Something is missing'published at 22:44 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham midfielder Dejan Kulusevski speaking to Amazon Prime: "It is not good enough. We conceded again on a corner and then everything gets much more difficult. Too many times this year we have conceded easy goals on corners.

    "Second half we came out much better and made some chances but we did not score and then lost the game. We are so disappointed to lose again.

    "We are not good enough in certain aspects, especially as I said on corners. We concede a lot that way and then it is difficult to play when you are 1-0 down. Three days and then we have another game against Chelsea, so we focus on that and move on.

    "Of course there is stuff that we have to work on. You can see it in the result but also in the performance. Something is missing and it is up to us players because nobody else will help us to solve it.

    "I think then we played good for the first 25 minutes of the second half. In the first half they had more intensity, we let them have too much ball, we did not press enough and they won too many duels.

    "Against good teams we always play good, so I expect Sunday will be another good performance. Then we need to look forward and improve on the details we are lacking."

  7. 'We have this propensity to shoot ourselves in the foot'published at 22:40 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou speaking to Amazon Prime: "It is not good enough. We again fell into the trap of starting the game really well, we were in control and then we conceded a really poor goal.

    "Then we kind of lost our way a little bit and allowed Bournemouth to play the game that they wanted to. We had our moments in the second half but we could not get a goal.

    "I don't know if they had more urgency but we have this sort of propensity to shoot ourselves in the foot when we should be controlling games. They are hard to beat here and what you should not do is give them a goal that gives them the momentum they need.

    "We started to play w ith a bit more conviction at the beginning of the second half and made some good chances. Again we made things difficult for ourselves by allowing the opposition to take the game in the direction that they want.

    "The fans have every right to be disappointed with the way it went tonight. I got some pretty direct feedback [on the pitch at the end] with the way that we are going at the moment and that is rightly so.

    "They are all big games coming up. We have to get ourselves out of the space we are in at the minute where we can't get a real grip on the season."

  8. 'You have to adapt'published at 22:37 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Jermain Defoe
    Former Bournemouth and Tottenham striker on Amazon Prime

    You have to go over and take responsibility. He's [Ange Postecoglou] the manager and he picks the tactics. Those are his principles and he likes to play on the front foot.

    Sometimes you have to adapt because you can become too easy to play against. I respect that he went over to the fans.

  9. 'Luckily for us we could finish the job'published at 22:35 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Bournemouth

    Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola to BBC Sport: "I think we had very clear chances to kill the game and didn't take them. Luckily for us we could finish the job.

    "I didn't like the first half. We competed well but weren't playing fluently. We improved in the second half - we were more a threat in behind.

    "Today he [Dean Huijsen] showed what we know he has, a good level on the ball, a strong personality.

    "We have good numbers offensively and defensively. I hope we can continue with this discipline and chance creation from set-pieces.

    "The position we're in now doesn't matter. We're happy with 21 points."

  10. 'The sky is the limit'published at 22:32 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Bournemouth

    Bournemouth captain Adam Smith speaking to Amazon Prime: "At home we are a force, even away from home, we press high and we don't care about who the opponent is. Here the crowd gets behind us and our mentality is top.

    "It was frustrating that we had a few good chances,especially at the end, and didn't score. Teams like this you have to finish them off. Credit to the defenders though who did fantastically at the other end and it was another great win.

    "We have got so many exciting players. The club has done so well in recruiting big talents and we have so many options to come off the bench too. The club is moving forward for sure, we have a new training ground coming, the owner wants to build a new stadium as well. We just need to keep building forward.

    "The sky is the limit, for sure. The owner wants to do big things, we have got a great manager as well, it is only positive things going forward.

    "After we beat Man City and Arsenal we went to Brentford away and it is teams like that which we struggle with sometimes. We need to get up for those games, especially against the teams in and around us. This league is so tough and it is only getting better, which is scary."

  11. Postpublished at 22:31 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

    FT: Bournemouth 1-0 Tottenham

    Only Arsenal (eight) and Aston Villa (seven) have scored more Premier League goals assisted via crosses this season than Bournemouth (six).

    Only Wolves (seven) and Everton (six) have conceded more such goals in the competition this term than Tottenham (five).

  12. 'We had to suffer at times'published at 22:28 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Bournemouth

    Bournemouth midfielder Tyler Adams: "It was a huge performance from us. We knew the game would demand a lot. We had to suffer at times but we came out on top and it's huge.

    "A good run of games for me so far. We have a great team, a great manager who is easing me back into it.

    "We won a lot of big games but we could have done better in a lot of other games we could have won.

    "We have to stay steady, continue building momentum. We're getting there."

  13. 'We have to stay together'published at 22:26 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Tottenham Hotspur

    Spurs defender Destiny Udogie: "We came here to win and it didn't go that way. We have to stay together and focus on the next game.

    "They played their game. It was a tough game.

    "Big disappointment to concede a goal like this.

    "It's not the best time for us with injuries but as a group we have to stick together."

  14. 'A goosebumps moment'published at 22:24 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Bournemouth

    Player of the match Dean Huijsen speaking to Amazon Prime: "We know it is difficult to come here. We know we make it difficult for the big teams, and the others as well really. It is a reall exciting win.

    "I think every little boy dreams of playing in the Premier League and I am so happy to be playing in it and to have scored my first goal. It is definitely a special memory. A goosebumps moment.

    "It is a special thing to be Bournemouth's youngest Premier League scorer and I hope to stay in the team now and carry on playing."

    "[The goal] is all down to our trainer. We have scored a few set piece goals this season because of him. It was my job to finish it and I did, so that was great. We will work on that [scoring more goals], but as a team it was great. A good performance and a good win.

    "We know Tottenham is also a very physical team so I think it was a great match up and a great match to watch for the fans watching at home and in the stadium.

    "First of all we need to avoid relegation but I think we have a bit more in us. Who knows. Maybe we can get a Conference League place or something if we keep working and pushing like this."

  15. 'There was no urgency'published at 22:23 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Les Ferdinand
    Former Tottenham striker on Amazon Prime

    Every time Bournemouth went forward, they looked like scoring. Tottenham didn't.

    There was no urgency, no physicality, didn't win any 50-50 tackles. We didn't know what Spurs would turn up and it wasn't this one the fans wanted.

  16. 'We always pay the price for it'published at 22:21 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou told BBC Sport: "We started well and conceded a really poor goal. It's a difficult place to come when giving the opposition the opportunity to play in the manner they want.

    "It's disappointing. It's something we've done consistently and we always pay the price for it.

    "We started the second half with more conviction. Always be a tough game here. Don't want to give the opposition a leg up. We've done that in other games this year and paid the price.

    "It comes down to us as a collective being a lot more determined to control a game of football and not let the opposition take control."

  17. Postpublished at 22:17 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    "Not good enough," is Ange Postecoglou's take. "We make things difficult for ourselves."

    We'll bring you his full quotes in a bit.

  18. Postpublished at 22:15 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Bournemouth have won successive Premier League games for the first time since April, while both their clean sheets in the league this campaign have come in home wins, also beating Arsenal 2-0 in October.

  19. Postpublished at 22:13 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

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    Bournemouth had 21 shots, their highest total in a Premier League game this season.

    Their expected goals was 3.31, compared to 0.58 for Spurs.

  20. 'We didn't get what we deserved today'published at 22:10 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

    FT: Fulham 3-1 Brighton

    Brighton & Hove Albion

    Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler speaking to Amazon Prime: "The performance is not the result so I think that we have to be honest that it was good enough to win the game. We were punished for easy mistakes and you can make them in football. In the end, we created enough chances to win the game. We didn't get what we deserved today.

    "It's the same principle every time we build up. We repeat it every day in training. Again, it's football. The players have to find a solution. We have to keep pushing.

    "I saw it. I think blocking in the box, there are no clear rules. Sometimes the ref gives a foul, sometimes not. There are no clear rules.

    "We get the points we deserve but today was not the case so we look to Sunday instead."