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Original Title: Van de Ven “When the results were getting down, Ange was really focused on and believed in his system, and even until today I still believe in his system because we played some unbelievable football. The system works but at some points we just needed to adapt a bit more than we did at that point.”
“At the beginning of the season [the first under Ange] everything was new, so no team was used to playing against our system at that point. We were playing unbelievable football but then the injuries came and suspensions came which changed things, but before we were flying.”
“Managers these days analyse everything – they have four or five people around them who analyse everything about the opponent – and at that point people knew what we were doing and sometimes we didn’t really have a plan B, so were getting exposed without having solutions.”
“At one point, we spoke with the manager and said that sometimes we need to change some things because we were getting too exposed. Of course, we won the Europa League and knew that this was a big opportunity for us to bring silverware to Tottenham, but we needed to change things. In games where we were 1-0 up, we can’t keep playing our football, sometimes we needed to sit back and make sure that nothing was coming through us. And that helped us at the end to of course win the Europa League.”