Thomas Frank, Tottenham manager, has described Saturday’s hard-earned 2-2 draw away at Brighton as the ‘best performance of the season’.
Frank’s side fought back thanks to goals from Richarlison and a Jan Paul van Hecke own goal to earn a point.
“I think this is our best performance of the season,” Frank told BBC Match of the Day.
While Tottenham appear to have improved defensively and mentality wise from last season, making the opposition goalkeeper work appears to be an area they have, for now, regressed in.
“I actually think that overall, if there should have been a winner, it should have been us.
“So many crosses into the box, near chances, missed opportunities. We were physically strong and mentally strong, and that is so important if you want to achieve something,” Spurs manager said.
After Tottenham dug in to earn a 1-0 win against Villarreal on their return to the Champions League in midweek, Lucas Bergvall praised their “clean-sheet mentality’ with that shutout their fourth in their first five games this season.
When the clean sheet opportunity was swiftly wiped out by Brighton on Saturday, the Spurs players showed a different mentality.
This time they never gave up and appeared to have the belief that they could get something from the game, despite their statistically poor ability to recover from two-goal deficits.
“The mentality that we showed, I was so impressed with,” added Frank.
“[We showed] the mentality to stay in the game, to keep going, to keep pushing and come back and get a well deserved 2-2.”
